Action & Articulation - the story of articulated steam locomotives
Ray Schofield
- Region:
- London
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Unknown
- Category:
- Travel
- Updated:
- 21st February 2021
- Tagged:
- Trains | Steam Engines
A story about steam locomotive odities, commencing with a competition on Austria's Southern Railway then, moving to various happenings in Wales before many more developments arround the world. Concluding with the development in Manchester of the soundest of the breed and its notable use in the UK and Southern Africa.
Views: 1236 | Enquiries: 6About Ray Schofield
Retired Chartered Engineer who has undertaken tour management for UK worldwide rail travel company. Widely travelled, much of which is independent, around the 5 continents of the world plus Aus and NZ. Visited parts that most others haven’t e.g., North Korea, Pakistan, Eritrea, Paraguay, Syria .......
Talks are generally associated with trains (mostly nostalgic steam) the railways themselves and associated historical aspects. Most talks were planned for railway interest groups but can be tailored to audience, whether knowledgeable on rail subjects or not and using both Ray's own photo material and other sourced images.
Presentations will be in digital format and in Power Point format.
Other Talks on SpeakerNet by Ray Schofield
- North of the bordr from the Tweed to Thurso
- The Great Northern Railway, King's Cross Station & Sir Nigel Gresley
- The Great Central Railway - Rapid Travel in Luxury
- From Carlisle to Kittybrewster (that's in Aberdeen)
- North of the Border: From Canal to Craigellachie
- GREAT EASTERN RAILWAY – ‘’rarely other than idiosyncratic’’
- Calgary to Kamloops and more by rail
- From Welllington to Wakatipu and north to Aukland too
- Ray's book - Locomotive Sheds of the Great Central Railway and the CLC
- The NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY from the Stockton & Darlington Rly to the East Coast Main Line
- 1847 and the first railway route to Scotland
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