Locomotive Portfolio – serie
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LMS Princess Coronation Pacifics, The Final Years & Preservation
Inbunden, 2023
344 kr
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This book follows on from the author's book on the Princess Coronation pacific locomotives from their construction in 1937 to their operation in 1956\. It picks up from the story in 1957 with their operation and performance on the Caledonian', Royal Scot' and Midday Scot' accelerated services of …
Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives in the Preservation Era
Inbunden, 2023
367 kr
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This third volume in the series on the Great Western Castle class locomotives focuses on the eight that have been preserved and goes into depth on the reconstruction of three of them, the two Tyseley ones, 5043 and 7029 described by Bob Meanley and Didcot's 4079 recounted by David Maidment from the …
Colonel Stephens Light Railway Locomotives
Av Brian Janes
Inbunden, 2023
282 kr
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Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline …
Gresley's Silver Link
The Evolution of the A4 Pacifics 1911-1941
Inbunden, 2022
400 kr
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Gresley's A4 Pacifics are arguably the most famous locomotives ever built, a status cemented by Mallard's record breaking run on the 3rd July 38. And yet only a year later the glamorous streaks' seemed likely to be cast into obscurity by the coming of another world war. So, for only four …
A4 Pacifics After Gresley
The Late L N E R and British Railways Periods, 1942-1966
Inbunden, 2023
400 kr
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In their book Gresley's Silver Link' the authors analysed the evolution of the A4s Gresley's and their service up to Gresley's death in 1941\. This book takes this compelling story from the early years of the war up to their demise in the 1960sAfter four years of service pulling the LNER's most …
LMS Princess Coronation Pacifics, 1937-1956
Their Design and Development
Inbunden, 2023
400 kr
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This book covers the design, construction, operation and performance of Sir William Stanier's masterpiece, the Princess Coronation pacific locomotives, better known as the Duchesses'. Included are pen portraits of the LMS engineers, a chapter on the express locomotives of the early LMS period that …
Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives 1923 - 1959
Av David Maidment, Bob Meanley
Inbunden, 2022
456 kr
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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, apart from the war years, …
Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives - The Final Years 1960- 1965
Inbunden, 2022
337 kr
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The author's second volume about the Great Western's classic express locomotives covers their final six years in British Railways service. In 1960 the Castles, many now modernised with double chimneys and 4-row superheaters, were still in charge of most of the Western Region's expresses, but by the …
Great Western, Pannier Tank Classes
An Overview of Their Design and Development
Inbunden, 2019
417 kr
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This is the tenth book by David Maidment in the ‘Locomotive Portfolio’ series and covers the large number of designs from 1860 onwards of 0-6-0 saddle tanks built for both the Great Western Railway and the independent railway companies in South Wales, most of which were converted to pannier tanks …
Locomotives of the Somerset & Dorset Joint Railway
A Definitive Survey, 1854-1966
Inbunden, 2021
392 kr
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Although closed to traffic in 1966, with most of its infrastructure swiftly destroyed by British Railways, this unique railway line still lives in the minds of many, some too young to remember it in its heyday.For more then a hundred years it courted disaster and could on a number of occasions have …
Oliver Bulleid's Locomotives
Their Design and Development
Inbunden, 2020
337 kr
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Oliver Bulleid's locomotives guides the reader in the quest to understand what motivated Mr Bulleid in his work as a senior engineer and manager, and tries, with as little bias as is reasonable, to make sense of some of the more controversial aspects of his activities. For example, why did OVB not …
Great Western, 0-6-2 Tank Classes
Absorbed and Swindon Designed Classes
Inbunden, 2020
327 kr
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After tackling the GW pannier tanks in his Locomotive Portfolios' for Pen & Sword, author David Maidment seeks out descriptions and photographs of the GW 0-6-2 tank engines, the majority of which were built by the Rhymney, Taff Vale, Barry and other Welsh railways from the last decade or so of the …
Southern Railway, 0-6-0 Tender Goods Locomotive Classes
A Survey and Overview
Inbunden, 2021
344 kr
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This is a book that looks at the 0-6-0 tender goods locomotives of the Southern Railway, from the steam locomotive classes taken over at the railway grouping in 1923, through to the two classes introduced during Southern Railway days, that of the Q and Q1 classes.The Southern Railway had a rich and …
Midland Railway and L M S 4-4-0 Locomotives
Their Design, Operation and Performance
Inbunden, 2021
400 kr
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David Maidment has unravelled the complex history of the Johnson, Deeley and Fowler 4-4-0 locomotives of the Midland Railway and its LMS successor, covering their design, construction, operation and performance in this book with over 400 black and white photographs. It recounts their working on the …
L N E R 4-6-0 Locomotives
Their Design, Operation and Performance
Inbunden, 2021
400 kr
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L N E R 4-6-0 Tender Mixed Traffic Locomotives covers the design, construction, operation and performance of all 4-6-0 locomotives that ran on the London & North Eastern Railway between 1923 and 1947 and the LNER designed engines that ran on BR's Eastern Region until the end of BR steam in 1968\. …
Modified Bulleid Pacifics
How Ron Jarvis Reconstructed the Bulleid Pacifics
Inbunden, 2019
447 kr
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Oliver Bulleid's Pacifics were perhaps the most controversial steam locomotives ever built in Britain. They seem to been loved and loathed in equal measure and the debate over their strengths and weaknesses took on a new dimension when BR decided to modify them in the 1950s. It was argued that they …
Great Western, Grange Class Locomotives
Their Design and Development
Inbunden, 2019
344 kr
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Churchward proposed a 5ft 8in wheeled 4-6-0 for mixed traffic duties in 1901 and it was seriously considered in 1905, but it took until 1936 before his successor, Charles Collett, realised the plan by persuading the GWR Board to replace many of the 43XX moguls with modern standard mixed traffic …
