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BR Diesels In Action 3 By G Weekes Dust Jacket 1976
BR Diesels In Action 3 By G Weekes Dust Jacket 1976 96 Pages
introduction
This third volume in the BR Diesels in Action series continues the same style of its two predecessors - being a selection of li neside views of a wide variety of diesels at work throughout Britain. Broadly, its layout follows a historical sequence, to show the overall development and change that has taken place in the field of BR traction. In steam days there was change, but at nothing like the pace of today; then, new and more modern locomotive classes gradually appeared, along with new CM Es from time to time, whilst older designs faded away on superannuated branch lines slowly; today a whole class can be rendered superfluous and be withdrawn within months, largely as a matter of policy. The tempo of today, when time is indeed money, prevents outmoded diesel classes from being found a corner of operations quietly to become time-expired, as was the case - to take but one example - of the veteran ex-LNWR 'Cauliflower' 0-6-0s which worked out their old age on the Keswick branch, well into the BR era. Such days are gone, and with them very nearly all the branch lines . .
As before, diesel multiple units have been excluded, partly because this series of volumes is intended to include only locomotives or locomotive-hauled trains and partly because DMUs are a subject of their own which receive separate treatment in, for example, Branch Lines round Britain in the Diesel Era (by J. A. M. Vaughan) and DMUs Countrywide (by P. J. Fowler).
It is interesting in the series to note the different photographic approach to their subject by the many contributors, ranging from the artistic - where the diesel and its train are almost secondary to the scenery or the setting to the more conventional 'record' shot which relies upon technical excellence and the interest of the main locomotive subject alone. The choice throughout the volume has been aimed at achieving a balance between these two, together with some regard for the necessary Regional and geographical coverage. The subject is one of such infinite variety that it is hoped a further volume - or even volumes might ensue, to portray a good historical cross-section of BR diesel motive power at work since those now seemingly far-off days at the end of the 1950s when the first units entered main line service.
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