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Class 47 Locomotives
A lavishly illustrated celebration of these popular workhorse locomotives. Fitting tribute to the Brush Type 4s.
Class 47?
This volume marks the 50th anniversary of Class 47 and is the result of many years of detailed research in the archives, rewriting much of the accepted wisdom of the type's history.
Type 4 Locomotives of British Rail
A terrific pictorial tribute to the type 4 locomotives that hauled trains and served the British railways.
British Rail in the 1980s and 1990s: Diesel Locomotives and DMUs
Kenny Barclay documents the diesel locomotives and DMUs in the closing decades of the British Rail era.
Class 47s
The Class 47 diesel loco was a mainstay of British Rail. They worked passenger and heavy freight trains as well as more mundane local passenger and wagon-load freight all over Britain. This book records 1982 to 1985 and many days spent trying to travel behind all 507 of the Class 47s that were still in traffic.
The Clayton Type 1: Bo-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives—British Railways Class 17
This informative, illustrated guide to the British Railways locomotive series covers its full production lifespan, from 1962–1965. In the early 1960s, the Bo-Bo diesel-electric locomotive known as The Clayton was conceived as the new standard for British Railways, superseding other Type 1 classes. While the early classes suffered from poor driver visibility, the Claytons were highly successful and popular with operating crews. However, the largely untested high-speed, flat Paxman engines proved to be highly problematic. As a result, the Claytons were eventually withdrawn from BR service by December 1971. Anthony Sayer draws on considerable amounts of archive material to tell the full story of these ‘Standard Type 1’ locomotives and the issues surrounding their rise and fall. Further sources provide insights into the effort and money expended on the Claytons in a desperate attempt to improve their reliability. Supported by over 280 photographs and diagrams, dramatic new insights into this troubled class have been assembled for both historians and modelers alike.
Stratford Depot Locomotives
Engines from every region could be found at Stratford TMD during the 1980s and 90s - making it an ideal hunting ground for the rail enthusiast. Photographer Roger Rounce presents a collection of his own images of diesels and electrics from those days when Stratford used any Class 47 to hand for Norwich trains and journeys between Chelmsford and Liverpool Street could just as easily be hauled by an Eastfield Class 47 as one shedded at Stratford. Visiting Class 37s were also used on empty stock and Cambridge trains. Locomotives of Stratford Depot includes Class 08s, 31s, 37s and 47s alongside less common classes such as 20, 58, 60, 86 and 87. Details of each locomotive pictured include when it was built, when it was scrapped, names currently and previously held, other numbers carried, historical notes and dates.
Heritage Traction on the Main Line
In an earlier album titled BR Diesel Locomotives in Preservation Fred Kerr detailed the many classes of BR diesel locomotives that had been preserved and noted that some purchases had been made with the hope of operating them on the national network.The Railways Bill 1993 provided an opportunity for this to happen and this album shows such locomotives at work during the early part of the 21st century up to December 2016. During this period many new train operators entered the market and their early operations used elderly locomotives withdrawn from service by their original operators until their business(es) were established and new locomotives could be bought. On occasion these new companie...
Class 40 Locomotives
A photographic look back at an iconic loco of the British railways, reflecting the varied work carried out by the Class 40.
