European Steam in the 1960s

Auteurs

• Peter Waller

Paramètres

• 160 pages
• 6 heures de lecture

• Loisirs et maison
• Nonfiction

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A photo-album with some 220 colour images taken by widely-travelled railway enthusiasts of steam engines on the European railway networks during the final decade of steam. At the end of the 1950s steam was for most European countries still the primary source of power on the railways; diesel and electric traction was becoming increasingly dominant particularly in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland by 1960 but in other countries, such as Austria, Germany both East and West Spain and Portugal, it was still possible to see many of the most impressive steam engines hard at work on both passenger and freight traffic. By the end of the 1960s, however, a combination of line closures and the more widespread use of more modern traction had seen many of these iconic locomotives taken out of service. In some countries such as Sweden withdrawn locomotives were often retained as a strategic reserve in case of emergency but in other countries, most notably Britain and France, vast numbers of relatively modern steam locos made their final journey to the scrap yard. This volume incorporates some 220 colour images taken by widely-travelled railway enthusiasts of steam in operation between 1960 and 1969 from all corners of Europe and portrays many of the classic designs hard at work on the main line including both standard and narrow gauge operations.

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• Année de publication: 2020
• Reliure: (rigide)