Description
Product ID: | 9781398108882 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | MGR Coal Trains |
Authors: | Author: Mike Rhodes |
Page Count: | 96 |
Subjects: | Extractive industries, Mining industry, Trains and railways: general interest, Trains & railways: general interest, United Kingdom, Great Britain |
Description: | Select Guide Rating With previously unpublished photographs documenting merry-go-round coal trains on Britain's railways. As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain’s towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations. In the early years these were inevitably fed by coal, of which the UK had a plentiful supply.In the 1960s and early 1970s the government embarked on a programme of constructing new power stations. The majority of these were constructed with direct rail-connected on-site coal handling facilities and thus was born the Merry-Go-Round, or MGR, coal train.The book features a UK panorama of a wide variety of coal trains on the move, with previously unpublished images from across many years and locations. |
Imprint Name: | Amberley Publishing |
Publisher Name: | Amberley Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-02-15 |