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... Lees meer.

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 desc... 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 locomot... 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 th... 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.

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 influ... 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.

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 cylind... Lees meer.

This informative illustrated guide to the British Railways locomotive series covers its full production lifespan from 1962 1965. In the early 1960s the Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive known as The Clayton was conceived as the new standard for British Railways su... 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.

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 controvers... Lees meer.

This book is a comprehensive history of all twenty-six classes of four coupled tank engines commissioned by the Great Western Railway or built at their Wolverhampton and Swindon Works from the Broad Gauge 2-4-0 and 4-4-0 tanks of the 1840s and 1850s to the well known C... Lees meer.

The Great Western Castles were one of the most successful locomotive designs of the twentieth century in terms of both performance and efficiency. Designed by Charles Collett in 1923 based on the 1907 Churchward Star class 155 were constructed almost continuously a... Lees meer.