{"title":"Books by Greg Morse","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780747812517","title":"British Railways in the 1970s and ’80s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor British Rail, the 1970s was a time of contrasts, when bad jokes about sandwiches and pork pies often belied real achievements, like increasing computerisation and the arrival of the high-speed Inter-City 125s.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut while television advertisements told of an ‘Age of the Train’, Monday morning misery continued for many, the commuter experience steadily worsening as rolling stock aged and grew ever more uncomfortable. Even when BR launched new electrification schemes and new suburban trains in the 1980s, focus still fell on the problems that beset the Advanced Passenger Train, whose ignominious end came under full media glare.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, Greg Morse guides us through a world of Traveller’s Fare, concrete concourses and peak-capped porters, a difficult period that began with the aftershock of Beeching but ended with BR becoming the first nationalised passenger network in the world to make a profit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297501491573,"sku":"9780747812517","price":8.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780747812517_722331a8-e5e1-424f-852f-343338c797e4.jpg?v=1786014600"},{"product_id":"9781784420338","title":"British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and ‘60s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA beautifully illustrated guide to the trains that took over as the Age of Steam was drawing to a close in the 1950s. Ideal for anyone interested in Britain’s railways and the evolution of rail transport.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the Second World War, the drive for the modernisation of Britain’s railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced with a coal crisis and the Clean Air Act in the 1950s, it was seen as a part of the solution for British Rail.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis beautifully illustrated book, written by an expert on rail history, charts the rise and decline of Britain’s diesel-powered locomotives. It covers a period of great change and experimentation, where the iconic steam engines that had dominated for a century were replaced by a series of modern diesels including the ill-fated ‘Westerns’ and the more successful ‘Deltics’.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56304071278965,"sku":"9781784420338","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784420338_0adcb013-b384-44d1-8081-0b80dba4b16d.jpg?v=1791212828"},{"product_id":"clapham-train-accident","title":"The Clapham Train Accident","description":"\u003cp\u003eClapham was a pivotal point in British railway history. Much technology had been invented and applied to accident prevention by 1988; much more was to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Clapham Train Accident considers Clapham in its wider context, using official reports and expert interviews to describe both the causes and the terrible effects. It looks beyond the railway to the external factors acting not only on British Rail, but also the government of the time, and considers the safety improvements that came about as a result. Finally, the book brings the story up to date and looks at why the lessons learned over thirty years ago still need to be retained in an industry where the baton of safety is all-too-easily dropped during re-organisation, re-branding and after the departure of those who lived through darker days to make ours shine more brightly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe concatenation of events, the errors, the reorganisations, the financial constraints, that led to Clapham could happen to any business in any industry. On the morning of 12 December 1988, they happened to the railway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Clapham Train Accident will act as a cautionary tale for safety practitioners old and new, not just in rail, but also other safety critical industries. It will help readers think actions through to all consequences, helping them too to make safer decisions, particularly when changing a system, technology or method of working.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57682815123829,"sku":"9781399024143","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":57483559272821,"sku":"9781399073028","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781399024143_25a00b56-aa63-41dd-959e-d5efa5cb040a.jpg?v=1792511653"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-greg-morse.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}