A black & white large landscape album presenting the demise of the steam engine, by disposal and scrapping, through the 1950s and 1960s. The photographs document the once powerful engines in scrapyards around the country, in various degrees of destruction and in the process of being broken up by the cutters. Chapters divide the book into regions. Locations covered include Ashford, Brighton, Cowlairs, Crewe, Darlington, Derby, Doncaster, Eastleigh, Glasgow, Gorton, Horwich, Inverurie, Kilmarnock Stratford, and Swindon. Detailed captions accompany the excellent photographs. Hardback. 128 pages.