Railway and Tramway Bodies

Another Life

Royston Morris

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445684307
• Subtopic: Rail Transportation
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Following the First World War, some railway and tramway companies began selling the bodies of their railway carriages and tramcars, with many finding new uses as houses or bungalows, workshops, chicken houses, bus shelters or animal shelters. During the late 1960s, in the wake of the Beeching Report, railway companies once again found themselves with a surplus of stock and began to put bodies up for sale. This continued into the mid-1970s and saw the stock put to a number of new uses all around the UK. Some eventually found their way into preservation and restoration circles. With a range of fascinating photography, Royston Morris documents the second lives of some of these carriages and tramcars.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Dedication
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Pre-Grouping Passenger Carriages
• Chapter 2 Post-Grouping Passenger Carriages
• Chapter 3 Pullman Carriages
• Chapter 4 Irish Railways Passenger Carriages
• Chapter 5 British Railways Passenger Carriages
• Chapter 6 Pre-Grouping Non-Passenger-Carrying Coaching Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 7 Post-Grouping Non-Passenger-Carrying Coaching Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 8 Irish Railways Non-Passenger-Carrying Coaching Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 9 British Railways Non-Passenger-Carrying Coaching Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 10 London Underground Tube Cars
• Chapter 11 Tramcars
• Chapter 12 Pre-Grouping Freight Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 13 Post-Grouping Freight Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 14 Irish Railways Freight Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 15 Private Owner Freight Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 16 British Railways Freight Stock Vehicles
• Chapter 17 Post-Grouping Lift On/Off Container Stock
• Chapter 18 British Railways Lift On/Off Container Stock
• Chapter 19 Rescued, Recovered and Restored