Steam Around York & the East Riding
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A01=Mike Hitches
Art Architecture & Photography
Author_Mike Hitches
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-WG
Category=NL-WQ
Category=WGF
Category=WQH
COP=United Kingdom
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Format=BC
History of Engineering & Technology
HMM=248
IMPN=Amberley Publishing
Industrialisation
ISBN13=9781848684447
Local & Urban History
PA=Available
PD=20120312
Photography
POP=Chalford
Price=€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=Amberley Publishing
Railway Books
Railways
Social & Economic History
Steam Engines
Steam Trains
Subject=Local Interest- Family History & Nostalgia
Subject=Transport: General Interest
WG=419
WMM=172
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- ISBN 9781848684447
- Weight: 419g
- Dimensions: 172 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2012
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Stronghold of the Romans, and later the Vikings, York was to become the powerbase of the infamous ‘Railway King’, George Hudson, whose empire would eventually extend from the far north of England to the south and south-west. Today, York is the home of the National Railway Museum where many old steam locos are on display, along with diesel and electric types from Britain and abroad. Indeed, the NRM provides many of the steam locos operating excursion trains to Scarborough.
In Steam Around York & the East Riding the glorious days of steam traction around York and the East Riding have been recaptured; the days when the railway was an important part of the infrastructure in the area and the trains were used by thousands of passengers for holidays to local seaside resorts and beyond, via the docks at Hull and Goole, as well as freight goods and shipping. Through a multitude of pictures furnished with informative captions from an acknowledged expert, the heyday and decline of the railways of York and the East Riding is explored in depth and the services, engines and locations of this remarkable industry are recorded for posterity.
Mike Hitches is a prolific author, having written several railway and local interest books. His previously published work covers North Wales and the West Midlands as well as Scarborough and he has plans for further titles covering other areas in Yorkshire. Mike's local interest titles are mainly based in Wales but he is planning more for the North Yorkshire area. Mike lives in Filey, North Yorkshire.
