Class 159 (Britain's Railways) - Softcover

Pike, Mark V.

 
9781802823592: Class 159 (Britain's Railways)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 180282359X ISBN 13: 9781802823592
Verlag: Key Publishing Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

In the late 1980s, the locomotive-hauled stock on Network SouthEast's West of England route was in urgent need of replacement. The BR Class 50s locomotives were not suited to the stop-start nature of the route, and frequently broke down. With the UK economy in decline in the early 1990s, it was found that Regional Railways had over-ordered Class 158s at the same time as Network SouthEast was looking for a similar number of new diesel trains. NSE agreed to take on the surplus Class 158s. The original 22 units were rebuilt by Babcock Rail in Rosyth Dockyard before entering traffic. This entailed fitting first-class accommodation and retention toilets, and various other modifications, and they were named Class 159s. Illustrated with over 150 images from around the country, this book charts the routes and services undertaken by the BR Class 159s.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark V. Pike has a lifelong interest in UK railways that started at the age of about six when his father used to take him to watch trains at Poole station in Dorset, just after steam had been abolished in the late 1960s. He later joined the railway at the age of 19 as a permanent way trackman at Bournemouth and was later an electric track maintenance worker at Dorchester for over 20 years. Now semi-retired, he is still an avid railway photographer, with various images appearing regularly in mainstream railway magazines and books.

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Verlag
Key Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
180282359X
ISBN 13 
9781802823592
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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