Edwardian Steam- A Locomotive Kaleidoscope

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CR965.0
CR965
On the eve of WWI, there were 19,245 route miles of railway in Britain. Apart from some suburban electrification in a few major city areas, this vast network was worked entirely by steam locomotives. Each year several hundred locomotives were built while others were scrapped. The picture was therefore continually changing almost by the day, as between 1901 and 1914 a new build locomotive design or variant appeared somewhere, on average, at the rate of one every three weeks. The dramatic increase in the size of locomotives during this fairly short period was also unparalleled. It was goods rather than passenger traffic that earned most revenue for many railways. Railway engines consumed about 13 million tons of coal annually and as the pit head price of coal steadily increased, the railways sought ways to reduce their coal consumption and thereby maintain profitability, superheating being an important innovation in this respect at this time.
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Stock Code CR965.0
Author Atkins P
ISBN13 9781910809655
Format Hardback
Height(mm) 280
Width(mm) 215
Page Count 256
Pictures 150
Publication Date 8 Oct 2020
Publisher CRECY
Publication Status Available
Record last updated 15/02/2024