British Railways The First 25 Years Volume 13 by J Allan

Product Information\n\nBritish Railways The First 25 Years Volume 13 by J Allan\n\nClick on the Image to Enlarge zoom_in\n\nDESCRIPTION\n\nThis volume covers the former Great Eastern Railway lines in the southern half of East Anglia, concentrating on Essex and Suffolk, with short incursions over the border into Norfolk and Cambridgeshire to complete the routes. Until the mid-1950s, with the exception of a handful of L&NER-designed classes such as the \u2018B17\u2019 4-6-0s and the arrival of the \u2018Britannia\u2019 Pacifics on the main line in 1951, this was still very much a Great Eastern railway. However, it would be completely transformed over the next decade with dieselisation and electrification, the introduction of DMUs and railbuses and the closure of most of the branch lines.\nWe begin our journey from Romford to Shenfield whose suburban services had been electrified in 1949, branching off to Southend where the trains remained steam operated until the end of 1956. On thm