Electric Locomotives on Britain's Railways

by George Woods

Before the West Coast Route electrification was completed in 1966, the electric locomotive was quite a rare beast on Britain's railways, with the exception of the Manchester to Sheffield service that had been electrified from 1954. There were plenty of EMUs running on suburban systems around large cities and in the south of England, but otherwise steam was king. This all changed when BR announced their Modernisation plan in 1955, which envisaged that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1398102016
• ISBN13: 9781398102019
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages