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Railways in the Transition From Steam 1940-1965 By O S Nock Dust Jacket 1974
Railways in the Transition From Steam 1940-1965 By O S Nock
Railways of the World in color
Hard cover with Dust Jacket
Copyright 1974
162 Pages
153 color illustrations
PREFACE
This volume, the sixth in the series 'Railways of the World in Colour', completes the sequence from The Dawn of World Railways up to the year 1965, which can be pin-pointed as a time when steam traction was definitely on the way out in many countries. At the time of writing however there is still much steam traction on the railways of the world, particularly in India, Southern Africa, and parts of the Far East. As in previous volumes there is some overlapping at the earlier date-line, because since Railways at the Zenith of Steam was published, covering the period 1920-40, much information has come to hand about areas that had to be omitted in that previous volume, especially concerning the equipment of the Japanese National Railways. The artists and I are pleased that we have been able to fill at least some of the more obvious gaps.
The passing of steam is certainly not lessening the interest, or the colourful character of world railways, and this present volume appears when there is a tremendous upsurge of development in railway engineering technique, of greatly increased speed, and in utilisation of the mass-transportation attributes of railways for enormous mineral traffic hauls. If at some future time the opportunity comes to take up the story of world railways once again, one can be fairly sure that story will be no less enthralling.
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