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Riding Yorkshire's Final Steam Trains
Language: en
Pages: 206
Authors: Keith Widdowson
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-02 - Publisher: The History Press

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Keith Widdowson visited the North Eastern Region of British Railways on over forty occasions during the final eighteen months of steam powered passenger service
Scottish Steam's Final Fling
Language: en
Pages: 267
Authors: Keith Widdowson
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: The History Press

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In May 1967, Scotland became the third of the six British Railways regions to dispense with the steam locomotive, bringing an iconic era of Britain's transport
Chasing Steam in 1966
Language: en
Pages: 219
Authors: Keith Widdowson
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-11 - Publisher: The History Press

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By 1966 the steam locomotive was entering its death throes: withdrawals were being carried out at a frenetic pace, with the slightest defect sending engines str
The Great Western Steam Retreat
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Keith Widdowson
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-01-06 - Publisher: The History Press

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In mid-1964, Keith Widdowson got wind that the Western Region was hell-bent on being the first to eliminate the steam locomotive on its tracks by December 1965.
Confessions of A Steam-Age Ferroequinologist
Language: en
Pages: 287
Authors: Keith Widdowson
Categories: Transportation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-10-04 - Publisher: The History Press

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ferroequinologist (noun) Someone who studies the 'Iron Horse' (i.e. trains and locomotives). From the Latin ferrus 'iron' and equine 'horse' + -logist As the Br