COAL: THE COMPLETE STORY FROM START TO FINISH - IN EXTENSIVE DETAIL
THE challenges of global warming have brought the once-unbreakable bond between steam and coal close to snapping – a situation considered unthinkable only a few years ago.
Faced with climate change, pit closures, high prices, green policies and now conflict in Ukraine, the heritage railway movement’s search for viable low-carbon alternatives to bituminous coal grows ever more urgent.
It’s a small wonder that many enthusiasts are turning their thoughts to the days when coal reigned supreme as the fuel that fired the Industrial Revolution and put the ‘Great’ into Britain. That golden age is recalled in The Rise and Fall of King Coal, published by Gresley Books and containing almost 300 illustrations, a third of which are rail-related.
