MGR Coal Trains
Published by Amberley Publishing
www.amberley-books.com
ISBN: 9781398108882
Price: £15.99
AS electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain’s towns and cities, so a number of municipal boroughs built their own power stations. In the early years these were inevitably fed by coal which the UK had, and still does have, in plentiful supply.
In the 1960s and early-1970s, the Government embarked on a programme of constructing new power stations. The majority of these were built with a direct rail connection, on-site coal handling facilities and thus the Merry-Go-Round, or MGR, coal train concept was created.
This 96-page paperback features 180 images covering mainly the 1980s, 1990s and early
