A Very British Railway
£15.95
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Stock reference: 88.005
£15.95
Stock type: -
Stock reference: 88.005
Sub-titled: Sao Paulo Railway
The engineers were Scottish, the early steam locomotives were built in Warrington, Stoke-on-Trent and Glasgow, the gauge was 5' 3 as in Ireland, and the stations and infrastructure would have appeared perfectly at home on any railway of the period in Britain.
Cowlairs-style inclines were constructed to conquer a jungle-covered mountain range and were operated with steam powered brake vans (until converted to run as a rack railway).
Armstrong-Whitworth supplied express diesel railcars and English Electric built the first main-line electric locos. The British-owned São Paulo Railway carried coffee to the port of Santos on Brazil's Atlantic coast and used Beyer-Garratt locomotives for express passenger haulage.
By Paul Catchpole
Hardback. A4 format. 84 pages
125 black & white photographs
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