Buy this book on-line BLAKE, FRANCIS & NICHOLSON, PETER: : The Barry Locomotive PhenomenonUK.SOMERSET,YEOVIL.HAYNES PUBLISHING GROUP,1987. ISBN 0860934101.
UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG.No owner inscrptn,but price-clipped dw/dj.Bright, clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj with negligible shelf- wear and minimal creasing to edges.Light indentations to both wraps,spine/backstrip sunned/faded - as usual/normal - miniscule bumping with reciprocal creasing and miniscule chipping to head of spine/
backstrip with miniscule loss.Top+fore-edges lightly aged/toned, contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages'
corners.Clean,unblemished,publisher's original tan/brown cloth bds with bright, stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip with b/w photographic front eps and clean, plain white rear eps.UK,Qrto HB+dw/dj,1st edn,half-title page,b/w scenic photographic illustrated title page [steam train standing at a station],contents
list/table,foreword by Robert Adley,M.P, locomotives illustrated list/table, acknowledgements,9-192pp [paginated] includes abbreviations list,intro,Pts 1-3 comprising 15 chapters/sections,profuse b/w contemporary locomotive photographs throughout the text and book,16pp (2 blocks of 8pp apiece) of contemporary locomotive colour photographs between pp80/1 and pp112/13 respectively - all on glossy paper.
This is the incredible story of how more than 200 former British Railways steam locomotives have survived nearly 20 years (then 1987) after the last was sold for scrap.Dai Woodham's legendary scrapyard at Barry in South Wales has become a mecca for thousands of railway enthusiasts from all over the world.Not only is this the story of the locomotives but the people that have become involved with projects to save them.
A year-by-year diary records the arrival and departure of the engines and includes reports on the progress of those undergoing restoration.All the surviving locomotives are illustrated with photographs showing them languishing in the yard,in transit - both by rail and road,under restoration and,where it has been achieved,once again in working order. Many have since become very famous engines,working regularly today on the very tracks from which they were banished all those years ago - and beyond,to
territory where they were rarely,if ever, seen in their previous operational days.
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