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Engines at Corby

Memories of an Industrious Railway System
Peter Staughton

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pages: 80
illustrations: 114
format: Portrait
ISBN: 9781915281098
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In the 1930s the small village of Corby in Northamptonshire was transformed into a sizable town as the firm of Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd enlarged their existing ironworks into an integrated plant delivering tubes as an end product. Ultimately a complex railway system was created, both to deliver iron ore from the adjacent quarries and to facilitate production in the iron, steel and tube works. Until the late 1960s an extensive fleet of industrial steam locomotives was the lifeblood of the system. This book describes the authors observations on their very varied comings and goings, the surroundings they worked in and some of the duties that they undertook.

3 reviews for Engines at Corby

  1. Paul Hooton

    I liked this book. It gives an interesting glimpse behind the scenes of an industrial railway system that operated within and beyond the steelworks, not limited to just the engines, although they play a large part. Photographs from locations like this must be quite hard to find, I would think, but are of acceptable quality and well reproduced on good quality paper. The book did sustain bruising to one corner in the post, and it would be nice to see the slim cardboard wrapper upgraded to counter this in the future.

  2. ashleymarietansley00

    This was an amazing gift and the perfect gift for the person I gave it to. They’ve even shown their mum and brother the photographs. I’d recommend this book for reading and looking through the photographs

  3. dr.farrow

    I bought the book ‘Engines at Corby’ by Peter Staughton for my husband for Xmas and he was delighted with it. He says it was well laid out and the pictures were great. He also says that all the books he has bought from you (and they are many!) have been excellent quality.

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Additional information

Weight 540 g
Dimensions 27.3 × 21.5 cm
Pages

80

Cover Choice

Paperback, ebook

Illustrations

114

Format

Portrait

In the 1930s the small village of Corby in Northamptonshire was transformed into a sizable town as the firm of Stewarts and Lloyds Ltd enlarged their existing ironworks into an integrated plant delivering tubes as an end product. Ultimately a complex railway system was created, both to deliver iron ore from the adjacent quarries and to facilitate production in the iron, steel and tube works. Until the late 1960s an extensive fleet of industrial steam locomotives was the lifeblood of the system. This book describes the authors observations on their very varied comings and goings, the surroundings they worked in and some of the duties that they undertook.

3 reviews for Engines at Corby

  1. Paul Hooton

    I liked this book. It gives an interesting glimpse behind the scenes of an industrial railway system that operated within and beyond the steelworks, not limited to just the engines, although they play a large part. Photographs from locations like this must be quite hard to find, I would think, but are of acceptable quality and well reproduced on good quality paper. The book did sustain bruising to one corner in the post, and it would be nice to see the slim cardboard wrapper upgraded to counter this in the future.

  2. ashleymarietansley00

    This was an amazing gift and the perfect gift for the person I gave it to. They’ve even shown their mum and brother the photographs. I’d recommend this book for reading and looking through the photographs

  3. dr.farrow

    I bought the book ‘Engines at Corby’ by Peter Staughton for my husband for Xmas and he was delighted with it. He says it was well laid out and the pictures were great. He also says that all the books he has bought from you (and they are many!) have been excellent quality.

Add a review

Additional information

Weight 540 g
Dimensions 27.3 × 21.5 cm
Pages

80

Cover Choice

Paperback, ebook

Illustrations

114

Format

Portrait