The Restoration & Archiving Trust
Industrial Railways of the British Isles
This presentation mainly covers steam operations on the industrial railway systems of the British Isles, other than those of the National Coal Board, over a 20 year period from the early 1960s. It does also include a few pictures taken in the 1930s inside the erecting & machine shops of W G Bagnall Ltd of Stafford, one of the longer surviving of the independent locomotive manufaturers in the country.
Other industries covered include gas & electicity supply, iron & steel both the manufacturing plants & the supporting quarry operations, slate quarrying & other mineral extraction operations, military railways, docks & shipbuilding; and general manufacturing with the paper industry, particularly Bowaters of Sittingbourne featuring strongly
This show includes contributions from the following photographers: Bill Potter courtesy the Kidderminster Railway Museum, Basil Roberts, John Champion, John Dagley Morris, Mike Collins, Mike Squire, Tony Bowles, Maurice Crowe & Roger Hickman
A few shots from the presentation
