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Milk Churns to Merry-Go-Round by RT Munns A century of train operations
Milk Churns to Merry-Go-Round by RT Munns
Hard cover with dust jacket
Copyright 1986
191 pages
Indexed
CONTENTS
Foreword by Sir Henry Johnson Introduction
1 The Country Scene
2 Marshalling Yards
3 The Railways in Wartime
4 Train and Traffic Control
5 Rationalisation
6 Commodities
7 The birth of TOPS
8 Reorganisation : Line Management
9 Merry-go-Round
10 The Rape of Rail Index
MILK CHURNS TO MERRY-GO-ROUND
A century of train operation R. T. Munns
Until the last 20 years or so ago freight was the lifeblood of the British railway system with `goods, coal and merchandise' generating around two-thirds of railway income and helping to subsidise passenger traffic. Now freight traffic and train operation has changed out of all recognition - not always for the good - for today the emphasis is on bulk haulage between producers and users. Gone are the hundreds of local stations with their small goods yards handling crates, packages, and individual wagon loads. Gone too are most of the marshalling yards where goods trains were reformed often more than once on a long journey. Today we have block trains, Freightliners, Merry-go-Round and Speedlink services.
R. T. Munns was closely involved with train operation for almost 50 years on the LNER and BR Eastern Region, as stationmaster, yardmaster, traffic controller, and latterly in senior management dealing with train control and freight train planning and operation. In this book he discusses railway operating methods and changes over the last 100 years, previously a neglected area in railway publishing. Among many aspects he looks at the work at a typical small country station, the growth and decline of marshalling yards, the development of control offices, handling wartime traffic, the development of Merry-go-Round trains, in which he played a major part, and the introduction of TOPS - the Total Operations Processing System - in which train and vehicle movement is recorded and monitored by computer. Inevitably his background shows through, for much of his account is drawn from personal experience on the eastern side of the country and at times is laced with critical comment and observation, but the detail was repeated right across the BR network.
Jacket pictures: bottom, old style goods train with GNR 0-6-0 No 1025 at Radcliffe before 1923; top, modern style Merry-go-Round coal operation
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