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 has full details on each of the classes, with good quality pictures, diagrams name and number lists. This work is also very useful to model makers, giving full details of mechanical and livery changes, that took place from the 1900s through to the early 1930s, when all except the preserved 3440, City of Truro, were withdrawn and scrapped.
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Format: Hardback
Dimensions: 250 x 240mm
Publication Date: 01 Nov 2017
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781526700957
About David Maidment
David Maidment was born in 1938. He began his railway career in 1961 and although he retired from the railway industry over eighteen years ago he is still busy as a writer activist in the voluntary sector and as a speaker in schools church groups and general interest clubs. In 1996 David received an OBE for services to the railway industry and in 2012 he received a Life Achievement Award at the National Rail Awards. His published works include articles on railway history safety practice performance and nostalgia and several books including The Great Western Eight Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives A Privileged Journey An Indian Summer of Steam and The Other Railway Children among other publications.