Steam Memories No 3: A 1950s North Eastern Region Miscellany

Steam Memories No 3: A 1950s North Eastern Region Miscellany\n\nBy Colin Alexander\n\n\u00A314.50\n80 pages / 82 illustrations / hardback cover / ISBN 9781913893873 / 240 x 185 mm dimensions / landscape format\n\nSteam still reigned supreme on British Railways in the 1950s and the North Eastern Region was host to a wide variety of different classes. There were hundreds of locomotives from the pre-grouping era of the North Eastern Railway operating alongside LNER designs of Sir Nigel Gresley and his successors, Edward Thompson and Arthur H Peppercorn. They were joined by BR Standard types, War Department 2-8-0s and some classes of LMSR origin. Early examples of diesel and electric traction could also be seen, the NER having been an Edwardian pioneer of the latter. The northeast of England was also home to many industrial lines, especially NCB concerns, with their own, sometimes unique motive power.\nMore than thirty different types of locomotive can be found in these pages, .