As electricity became more widely used to power and light Britain's
towns and cities a number of municipal boroughs built their own power
stations. In the early years these were inevitably fed by coal of which
the UK had a plentiful supply.In the 1960s and early 1970s the
government embarked on a programme of constructing new power stations.
The majority of these were constructed with direct rail-connected
on-site coal handling facilities and thus was born the Merry-Go-Round,
or MGR, coal train.The book features a UK panorama of a wide variety of
coal trains on the move, with previously unpublished images from across
many years and locations.