Diesel Decades 1990s

Diesel Decades 1990s

Author: Paul Shannon

Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing, Marketing Department, 4 Watling Drive, Hinkley LE10 3EY. Tel: 01455 233747

ISBN: 978-0711033849

Pages: 96

Illustrations: 169 coloured

Date: July 2009

Cover: hardback

Size: 292x216mm portrait

Price: £16.99

Index: none

The 1990s were a period of substantial change on Britain's railways, we entered the decade with the public owning the rail network and left it with trains and track owned and run by a myriad of new private companies. Nearly 100 new railway businesses were formed as a result of rail privatisation. In 1948, nationalisation had occurred when the railways needed state funding but in the mid 1990s, they were returned to the private sector in the belief that private money needed to be pumped into the system. However, privatisation proved to be a shot in the arm for the model business as it provided a rash of new and changing liveries that could be translated into a wider choice of models. It also brought new stock, especially in terms of multiple units and the bulk handling of freight. The book takes us through these interesting times of change as the diesels locomotives of the past began to dwindle in numbers and those that remained found themselves in the slow process of acquiring new liveries.