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Beschreibung
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 [...] 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 [...] book features a UK panorama of a wide variety of coal trains on the move, with previously unpublished images from across many years and locations.
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 [...] 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 [...] book features a UK panorama of a wide variety of coal trains on the move, with previously unpublished images from across many years and locations.
Über den Autor
Mike Rhodes hails from Preston and became interested in both road and rail transport from an early age. He has published several books and has been photographing buses since 1974.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Fachbereich: Einzelne Wirtschaftszweige
Genre: Importe, Wirtschaft
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781398108882
ISBN-10: 139810888X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Rhodes, Mike
Hersteller: Amberley Publishing
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 232 x 163 x 7 mm
Von/Mit: Mike Rhodes
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.02.2023
Gewicht: 0,278 kg
Artikel-ID: 121383176