Author: David Maidment

This book follows on from the author's book on the Princess Coronation pacific locomotives from their construction in 1937 to their operation in 19...

This book is a comprehensive history of the four coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western Railway - locomotives of nine Broad Gauge compa...

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 t...

This volume covers all the large wheeled outside frame classes, of 4-4-0 tender Locomotives, that once ran on the Great Western Railway. The book ...

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 saddl...

This book in Pen & Sword's Gallery' series starts with a brief history of the Cambrian Railways' early years, followed by a magnificent compre...

Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines is a volume in the series of Locomotive Profiles being published by Pen & Sword. It describes the con...

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 wit...

This book is one of the Pen & Sword Locomotive Portfolio series and covers the rebuilding by Richard Maunsell of the South Eastern & Chatha...

''Great Western Eight-Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives'' is the first of a series of ''Locomotive Profiles'' to be published by Pen & Sword. I...

The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen &am...

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...

The Great Western Railway, had two classes of tender locomotives named after counties, the first class of two cylinder 4-4-0 tender locomotives, de...

'An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David Maidment's 'railway' autobiography, following his first book 'A Privileged Journey', publ...

A Privileged Journey is a personal and individual account of the author's youthful enthusiasm for trains and the travels he undertook in Great Brit...