Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester
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A01=Alon Siton
A01=Colin Alexander
Author_Alon Siton
Author_Colin Alexander
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History of Engineering & Technology
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IMPN=Amberley Publishing
Industrialisation
ISBN13=9781445685878
Language_English
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PD=20190515
POP=Chalford
Price_€10 to €20
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Railway Books
Railways
Social & Economic History
Subject=Transport: General Interest
Trains
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- ISBN 9781445685878
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 343g
- Dimensions: 165 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2019
- Publisher: Amberley Publishing
- Publication City/Country: Chalford, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The world-famous Beyer, Peacock works of Gorton, Manchester, is remembered principally for its remarkable Beyer-Garratt articulated locomotives, which ran in forty-eight countries. The firm would also turn out steam lorries and steam tram engines. Among the company’s iconic domestic designs were the 4-4-0T condensing engines for the pre-electrified Metropolitan Railway in London, the narrow-gauge 2-4-0 tank engine that is synonymous with the Isle of Man and the stylish and powerful diesel-hydraulic Hymeks for British Railways’ Western Region.
Beyer, Peacock exported many of its 8,000 steam, diesel and electric locomotives all over the world and this book illustrates a variety of these throughout the company’s 112-year existence, beginning in 1854.
Colin Alexander has been a railway enthusiast for more than thirty years and volunteered on preserved Deltic locomotives. He was born in Northumberland, and has a life-long passion for local and transport history, sparked by his mother’s copy of The King’s England – Northumberland. Appreciative of the county’s unique place geographically and historically, he has explored most of its once-inhabited hilltops and its mediaeval castles, and walked the length of its greatest defensive monument – Hadrian’s Wall. He lives in Whitley Bay. Alon is a transport history author specialising in railways.
