Eric TonksRezensionen

This little booklet is a masterclass in brevity combined with all relevant facts,and quality illustrations.The author is readable and covers a large variety of machines with details and views of their employment and place of manufacture.Every boy should have one.

See review of Pocket Book D.

See review of Pocket Book D

See review of Pocket Book D.

See review for Pocket Book D.Still latest on Cumbria.

See review for Pocket Book D

see review for Pocket Book D.

see review for Pocket Book D.This most recent info for the area.

These little booklets were the precursors of the IRS Handbooks,which are still being added to.Though less detailed than the modern successors,some are still the only source of information in their areas,and still very useful .They are also illustrated with photo;s over 50 years old.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.

The ironstone quarrying industry started at a very specific point in time. In 1851, a sample of iron ore was shown at the Great Exhibition, and within four years an industry had been born. It carried on up to the 1960s, when it reached its zenith; at that time, expansion seemed inevitable and the industry was making plans up to the year 2000 and beyond. But the post-war growth of alternative materials such as plastics, the development of new processes that required higher-quality ore imported from abroad, and the subsequent relocation of the centre of the industry to coastal locations, and finally the bonfire of British heavy industry during the Thatcher years meant that ironstone quarrying declined rapidly and ceased altogether in January 1980. Eric Tonks wrote his standard work 'Ironstone railways and tramways of the Midlands' in the late 1950s. Long out of print, in the late 1980s he expanded it massively by adding sections on quarry machinery and non-rail transport, capturing what information he could as the quarries and their railways disappeared almost overnight. The whole project now covers nine volumes, of which this is one.