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  • Cambrian Railways Gallery

    A Pictorial Journey Through Time

    by David Maidment, Paul Carpenter ...
    The historic trainline connecting Shropshire, England, to the West Coast of Wales is beautifully captured in this volume of photographs.One of the most scenic trainlines in the United Kingdom, the Cambrian Line carries passengers through mountains and market towns, offering views of castles, countryside, and World Heritage sites as it makes its way to the breathtaking Welsh coast. This volume ... Read more

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  • Great Western, 0-6-2 Tank Classes

    Absorbed & Swindon Designed Classes

    by David Maidment ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    Descriptions and hundreds of photos of these tank engines that played a major role in Welsh coal mining and passenger rail.After tackling the Great Western Railway's pannier tanks in a previous Locomotive Portfolios volume, 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 ... Read more

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  • Southern Railway

    Maunsell Moguls & Tank Locomotive Classes

    by David Maidment ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    Southern Maunsell Moguls and Tank Engines is a volume in the series of Locomotive Profiles being published by Pen & Sword. It describes the conception, design and construction of the two- and three-cylinder 2-6-0s initially the Ns constructed at the end of the First World War, many at government initiative by the Woolwich Arsenal and their three-cylinder variants, the N1s. It also describes in ... Read more

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  • Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway

    by David Maidment ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    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 Collett 0-4-2 branch line engines of classes 48XX (later renumbered 14XX) and 58XX of the 1930s. As well as the Broad Gauge engines ... Read more

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  • Urie & Maunsell 2-Cylinder 4-6-0s

    by David Maidment ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    This book is one in the Pen & Sword Transport History imprint in the Locomotive Portfolio series and covers the family of two-cylinder 4-6-0s designed and built by the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the London & South Western and Southern Railways between 1914 and 1936, which survived well into the era of British Railways.The N15 King Arthur class of express passenger engines were the mainstay of ... Read more

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  • The LMS Princess Coronation Pacifics

    The Final Years & Preservation

    by David Maidment ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    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 the late 1950s, their continuing heavy work as dieselization of the West Coast mainline is ... Read more

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  • Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives, 1923–1959

    by David Maidment, Bob Meanley ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    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, between 1923 and 1950, in addition to fifteen rebuilt 'Stars' and one rebuilt from the Great Bear pacific ... Read more

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  • London & North Eastern Railway 4-4-0 Tender Locomotives

    Great Northern, Great Central, Great Eastern, Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway

    by David Maidment ...
    This first volume on the LNER 4-4-0 locomotives describes the design, construction, history, operation and performance of the Great Northern, Great Central and Great Eastern examples, classified by the LNER at the Grouping as classes, D1 - D4, D5 - D12 and D13 - D16 respectively. It covers from their emergence in the late nineteenth century to their demise in the mid or late 1950s and their ... Read more

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  • British Atlantic Express Tender Locomotives

    by David Maidment ...
    The British Atlantic locomotive flourished in the first decade of the nineteenth century especially on the relatively level stretches of the East Coast mainline. This book describes the design, construction, history, operation and performance of the Great Northern, Great Central, North Eastern and North British Atlantics and the London Brighton & South Coast engines that were developed from the GN ... Read more

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  • An Indian Summer of Steam

    by David Maidment ...
    An Indian Summer of Steam' is the second volume of David Maidment's 'railway' autobiography, following his first book 'A Privileged Journey.' David was a railway enthusiast who made the hobby his career. After management training on the Western Region, between 1961 and 1964, he became a stationmaster in a Welsh Valley, an Area Manager on the Cardiff Swansea main line and radiating valleys, the ... Read more

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  • Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives

    The Final Years 1960–1965

    by David Maidment ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    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 modernized with double chimneys and 4-row superheaters, were still in charge of most of the Western Region's expresses, but by the summer of 1963 their regular express work was limited to the London – Worcester route. Their ... Read more

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  • Great Western, Grange Class Locomotives

    Their Design and Development

    by David Maidment ...
    Series series Locomotive Portfolios
    The renowned British railroad historian delivers "a well-illustrated account of the rationale behind Collett's construction of this 80 strong class" ( West Somerset Railway Association ).English railway engineer George Jackson 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 ... Read more

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