Isbn: 9781473878570 - the leicester gap: the last semaphore signalling on the midland main line (18 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: New. While the last new power signalbox was constructed for the Midland Main Line between 1984 and 1987, a 45-mile stretch known as the Leicester Gap continued to be controlled by traditional semaphore signals. The author of this collection of photographs took hundreds of images of trains passing through the area during this period and the portfolio also includes views of the signals, signalboxes and signalbox track diagrams.…

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Hardback. Condizione: New. Until 1987, there was still a busy stretch of British main line railway where traditional Victorian operating practices were used to control the movements of both express passenger and a variety of freight trains.At the heart of the former Midland Railway main line from St Pancras to Sheffield, the 45-mile section between Irchester in Northamptonshire and Loughborough in Nottinghamshire was equipped with semaphore signals worked from twenty-three mechanical signalboxes. It was the last main line in the country where this once-standard arrangement remained virtually unchanged since the days of steam. This pocket of mechanical signalling was christened The Leicester Gap, because Leicester was to be the site of a new power signalbox, the last in a chain of just five that would control the whole of the Midland Main Line into the twenty-first century.From 1984 when resignalling work started, to 1987 when it was completed, the author photographed as many trains passing through the Leicester Gap as he could. This book is the result of those efforts.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. 175 pages. 11.00x8.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Includes rare colour pictures & In-depth coverage of each signal box and area.

Gebunden. Condizione: New. KlappentextrnrnIncludes rare colour pictures & In-depth coverage of each signal box and area.

Hardback. Condizione: New. Until 1987, there was still a busy stretch of British main line railway where traditional Victorian operating practices were used to control the movements of both express passenger and a variety of freight trains.At the heart of the former Midland Railway main line from St Pancras to Sheffield, the 45-mile section between Irchester in Northamptonshire and Loughborough in Nottinghamshire was equipped with semaphore signals worked from twenty-three mechanical signalboxes. It was the last main line in the country where this once-standard arrangement remained virtually unchanged since the days of steam. This pocket of mechanical signalling was christened The Leicester Gap, because Leicester was to be the site of a new power signalbox, the last in a chain of just five that would control the whole of the Midland Main Line into the twenty-first century.From 1984 when resignalling work started, to 1987 when it was completed, the author photographed as many trains passing through the Leicester Gap as he could. This book is the result of those efforts.…