Green Day Book:

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Editorial Review:
As a result of British Railway's Modernisation Plan of 1955, from 1958 onwards, vast numbers of diesel locomotives were produced both by BR's own workshops and by outside contractors. So rapid was the transformation of the railways, by August 1968, steam traction had been eliminated. Some of the new diesel designs proved successful; others less so, with some of these failing to outlast the steam locomotives they were designed to replace. This colour album recalls those early diesel years when the locomotives were painted in an attractive green livery. Mistakes were made in this rapid shift towards diesel traction. With the benefit of hindsight, the Western Region's foray into hydraulic, as opposed to electric, transmission can be seen as a mistake; but so too were designs such as the Clayton Bo-Bo type and the Metropolitan-Vickers Co-Bo class.Of the classes built as a result of the Modernisation Plan, a large proportion failed to survive into the era of BR Corporate Blue. With interest in the first generation diesel locomotives rising rapidly as the final examples of the classes built as a result of the Modernisation Plan now reach their twilight years, nostalgia for the first phase of BR's diesel era grows as well. The success of the first impression of this album is evidence of this. It sold out rapidly and the opportunity now arises to bring "Green Diesel Days" back into print in anticipation of the publication later this year of a companion volume focusing on the next phase in the diesel era, "Blue Diesel Days" (ISBN 9780711032255).