The Beaten Track Volume 5: The Traction and Extremities of Britain's Rail Network 1970-1985

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The Beaten Track Volume 5: The Traction and Extremities of Britain's Rail Network 1970-1985The Beaten Track Volume 5: The Traction and Extremities of Britain's Rail Network 1970 1985 In 2021 the first of The Beaten Track series was published. Combining outstanding colour photography from the much missed 19701985 era, the series featuring superseded motive power and long lost extremities of the British railway network received widespread critical acclaim. Although originally intended to be a single volume, the success of The Beaten Track

Landing at Dǧn Laoghaire

Heaton Mersey

The photographs

In the 1960s many of them were still worked by interesting industrial steam locomotives which serviced the factories of this renowned manufacturing area bringing in the raw materials

A3 and Clan classes worked alongside Crab

The industrial steam scene is also well covered with crane tanks at Doxford’s Shipyard Sunderland

South Western Steam: The second Network special programme

The first in a new series in conjunction with British Pathe

Many of the classes associated with the North East are included: Gresley A3

118-120 Bolton Trinity Street 1-6 Bolton 7-11 Lostock Junction 10-19 Lostock 20-21 Lostock Lane 22-23 Horwich Fork Junction 25-31 Blackrod 32-38 Horwich Branch 39-42 Horwich Locomotive Works 43-54 Horwich 55-57 Adlington (Lancashire) 59-61 Adlington Junction 62-66 Chorley 67-76 Buckshaw Parkway 77-79 Chorley Royal Ordnance Factory 80-81 Euxton Junction 82-84 Leyland 85-89 Farington Junction 90-93 Farington 94-97 Farington Curve Junction 98-100 Preston 102-109 Port of Preston 111-117

Stanier’s Jubilees

“Steam Routes” is a series of films featuring steam traction along specific routes rather than areas

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