{"product_id":"railways-since-1939-9780715354872","title":"Railways Since 1939","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe outbreak of war in 1939 pre-sented the railways with an enormous challenge. The main line companies were not in the best of physical condition following the years of depression and road competition, yet now had to carry increasingly heavy traffic with diminishing maintenance and minus many skilled staff who went off to the war. Indeed, on top of all that, the railways' own workshops built war materials. How the railways overcame the challenge is one of the main themes of this pictorial history; the other is the return to peace-time conditions, but very different conditions from those before the war, the railways withdrawing from many rural areas, speeding up main line services, introducing liner trains for freight and concentrating on electric and diesel power, though not without first having built 1000 post-war steam engines. Though primarily a picture book, the work includes a substantial introductory essay and a chronology of the main events since 1939.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 19x24cm, 128 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David \u0026 Charles","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (282)","offer_id":57503324864895,"sku":"9780715354872","price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/files\/9780715354872.jpg?v=1778580650","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/railways-since-1939-9780715354872","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}