Last Years of Carlisle Steam: A Pictorial Journey

In the final years of steam, a group of young enthusiasts in Carlisle captured on film the city's steam locomotives, goods lines, and motive power depots. This book, with over two hundred photographs, offers a glimpse into the variety that prevailed at Carlisle during that time, including locomotives working on steeply graded lines towards summits like Shap, Beattock, Whitrope, and Ais Gill.

Format: Hardback
Length: 120 pages
Publication date: 09 September 2021
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Steam enthusiasts of a certain age will likely conjure up an image of bygone days when Stanier and Gresley Pacifics rubbed shoulders alongside each other within Citadel station, awaiting the arrival of titled trains like the Royal Scot and the Waverley. In addition to steam locomotives traversing a network of goods lines, and the city's three surviving motive power depots, these scenes were all captured on film by a group of young enthusiasts who lived in Carlisle during the final years of steam. The work of these cameramen, aided by others who visited the area, will offer the reader an insight into the variety that still prevailed at Carlisle during that time. Looking slightly further afield, images are also included that feature locomotives working hard on those steeply graded lines that radiated from the city towards summits with names to capture the enthusiast's imagination, such as Shap, Beattock, Whitrope, and Ais Gill. This book, which illustrates in depth one of the country's major steam centers, contains more than two hundred photographs, presented in both color and black and white, the majority of which have not been published previously.

Steam enthusiasts of a certain age will likely conjure up an image of bygone days when Stanier and Gresley Pacifics rubbed shoulders alongside each other within Citadel station, awaiting the arrival of titled trains like the Royal Scot and the Waverley. In addition to steam locomotives traversing a network of goods lines, and the city's three surviving motive power depots, these scenes were all captured on film by a group of young enthusiasts who lived in Carlisle during the final years of steam. The work of these cameramen, aided by others who visited the area, will offer the reader an insight into the variety that still prevailed at Carlisle during that time. Looking slightly further afield, images are also included that feature locomotives working hard on those steeply graded lines that radiated from the city towards summits with names to capture the enthusiast's imagination, such as Shap, Beattock, Whitrope, and Ais Gill. This book, which illustrates in depth one of the country's major steam centers, contains more than two hundred photographs, presented in both color and black and white, the majority of which have not been published previously.

Weight: 916g
Dimension: 224 x 287 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526773586