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The Industrial Railway Society was founded in the United Kingdom in 1949 as the "Birmingham Locomotive Club – Industrial Locomotive Information Section". [1] It is devoted to the study of all aspects, and all gauges, of privately owned industrial railways and locomotives, both in the UK and overseas. Examples include railways at collieries ...
MSc, FRIC, Dip Maths. Children. 2. Eric Tonks (17 July 1914 [1] – 26 December 1994 [2]) was an English writer and historian of British industrial railways. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the industrial archaeology of railways and quarrying. [2] He was also a noted Jazz discographer.
The Amberley Museum Railway is a 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge railway and railway exhibition hall devoted to British industrial narrow gauge railways. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] There are 45 locomotives , with 8 being steam powered, 29 internal combustion and 4 battery electric, and around 80 items of rolling stock , chiefly goods wagons , [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ...
H. C. Casserley. Henry Cyril Casserley[1] (12 June 1903 – 16 December 1991) [2] was a British railway photographer. His prolific work in the 1920s and 1930s, the result of travelling to remote corners of the railway network in the United Kingdom and Ireland, has provided subsequent generations with a comprehensive source of illustrations for ...
The Industrial Railway Society record 34 Avonside locomotives extant in the United Kingdom as at 2008-11-01. [7] Avonside Engine Company locomotives preserved in the UK include: Cadbury No. 1, an 0-4-0 T of 1925. Coke-fired for cleanliness, it worked on the Bournville Works Railway its entire life.
Scottish Industrial Railway Centre. The Scottish Industrial Railway Centre is an industrial heritage railway operated by the Ayrshire Railway Preservation Group. The centre owns a number of standard gauge steam locomotives and diesel locomotives as well as some narrow gauge items and an extensive collection of photographs.
Some railway enthusiast societies in the United Kingdom have been in existence for many years. One such long established society is Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. It was formed in 1928. [1] The Industrial Railway Society was founded in 1949. [2] It publishes books for the hobby. The Inter City Railway Society was formed in 1973. [3]
Ivo Peters. Ivo Peters BEM (29 July 1915 – 7 June 1989) was an English railway photographer and filmmaker. Peters spent his life in Bath, Somerset and is best known for his amateur photographs and cine films of steam railways in the British Isles, particularly of the Somerset and Dorset Railway.