Traces the bloodline of its 2-6-0 and 2-6-2T classes . . . a comprehensive history of the classes from Churchward to BR days with excellent photographs. Steam Railway Great Western Moguls Prairies is a volume in Pen Swords series Locomotive Profiles. It descri... Lees meer.
A thorough history of the Metropolitan-Vickers locomotive also known as Class 28 featuring 160 color and black white photos. This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives more frequently known collectively as... Lees meer.
The Great Western Railway experienced the trauma and disruption of the end of the broad gauge in 1892 and were faced with equipping the network with suitable motive power especially in Devon and Cornwall where the last track conversion had taken place. West of Newton A... Lees meer.
Great Western Eight-Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives is the first of a series of Locomotive Profiles to be published by Pen Sword. It will describe the conception design building and operation of the fleet of powerful locomotives built in the first half of the... Lees meer.
Designed by G.J. Churchward no. 40 was constructed at Swindon in April 1906. It was Swindon s first 4 cylinder simple engine and was the forerunner of Churchward s famous 4 cylinder Star Class 4-6-0s. Initially built as a 4-4-2 Atlantic no. 40 was named North Star in... Lees meer.
The 30 Manor class 4-6-0s were designed by CB Collett in 1938 and built by the Great Western and the Western Region at Swindon in two batches 20 in 1938 9 and 10 in 1950. In order to save money the first 20 members of the class were built using parts from withdrawn... Lees meer.
A pictorial history of the British locomotive from its inception to its final days. The Great Northern Atlantics were the first locomotives constructed in Britain to the 4-4-2 wheel arrangement. The Atlantics were designed by H.G. Ivatt locomotive Superintendent of the... Lees meer.
British Railways David Maidment presents a pictorial history of the county class trains designed by George Jackson Churchward and F. W. Hawksworth. The Great Western Railway had two classes of tender locomotives named after counties. The first class of two cylinder 4-4... Lees meer.
It is possible that in the history of British steam locomotives no class of engine was ever more universally popular than the Stanier 5MT 4-6-0 class which were generally referred to as Black Fives. This informative book includes numerous images of the class at work m... Lees meer.
This British Railways history recounts the life of a controversial steam engine and its miraculous transformation at the hands of a brilliant engineer. As Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway Oliver Bulleid designed what were perhaps the most controversial... Lees meer.
Churchwards 2 cylinder Saint Class 4-6-0s were arguably one of the most important locomotive developments of the twentieth century. The seventy-seven members of the class were so successful that most of the other railway companies in this country used the same 2 cylinde... Lees meer.
The German Pacific Locomotive Its Design and Development is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives the German pacific locomoti... Lees meer.
Turbomotive was unique in Britain s railway history and an experimental engine that proved successful but came too late to effect the direction of steam development or deflect the onset of diesel and electric locomotives. It was the brainchild of two of the most influe... Lees meer.
This comprehensive history of these unique locomotives covers everything from performance issues to sightings detail differences and liveries. The Type 2 Bo-Bo Diesel-Electric Classes 21 29 locomotives were constructed by the North British Locomotive Company in the e... Lees meer.
The gradual growth of the railways in Britain during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both passenger and freight traffic saw the requirement for a more powerful and versatile type of motive power mixed traffic locomotives. The construction of Great... Lees meer.