Crewe in the Days of BR Blue
Title | Crewe in the Days of BR Blue PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Hitchen |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2019-12-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1445692767 |
A fascinating collection of previously unpublished images of railways around this famous hub of British transport.
BR Blue: A Portrait
Title | BR Blue: A Portrait PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Owens |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 2022-10-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1398115029 |
An evocative collection of photographs documenting the history of the days of BR Blue in the 1970s and 1980s.
British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Electric Locomotives, Coaches, DEMU and EMUs
Title | British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Electric Locomotives, Coaches, DEMU and EMUs PDF eBook |
Author | Kenny Barclay |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2018-03-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1445670224 |
This book, a companion to British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs, exhibits a selection of some of his finest photographs from this period.
British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs
Title | British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs PDF eBook |
Author | Kenny Barclay |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 199 |
Release | 2017-11-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 1445670062 |
Kenny Barclay documents the diesel locomotives and DMUs in the closing decades of the British Rail era.
The Railway Magazine
Title | The Railway Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
BR Blue
Title | BR Blue PDF eBook |
Author | Martyn Hilbert |
Publisher | Fonthill Media |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2022-12-14 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN |
The British Rail corporate image and its Rail Blue livery was one of the longest-lived colour schemes carried by the trains of Britain in the forty-eight-year life of the nationalised railway network. Launched in 1965, after Beeching, the then new corporate image was an attempt by the BR design panel to raise the profile of the railway system countrywide and to sweep away the dull steam-era image as the swinging sixties got underway. By the mid-1970s, virtually all BR locomotives and multiple units were carrying Rail Blue livery, while most of the passenger coaches were in matching blue/grey. As the British Rail network was sectorised from the late 1980s in preparation for eventual privatisation, new bold, bright livery schemes for the fleet swept away the familiar, but by then somewhat jaded BR image. The BR blue era is now looked upon with affection as a golden age when the system was operated by an immense variety of locomotives and rolling stock, all now part of history in the same way that the steam era was viewed when the BR blue era ruled on Britain’s railways.
BR Blue: A Personal Reflection
Title | BR Blue: A Personal Reflection PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Owens |
Publisher | Amberley Publishing Limited |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 2019-09-15 |
Genre | Transportation |
ISBN | 144568991X |
The author celebrates the era of BR blue, with a wealth of previously unpublished images. Illustrating perfectly why so many view the BR Blue period with such fondness.