Great Western Locomotives On The Main Line

Product Description

With the final elimination of the broad gauge in the early 1890s the Great Western Railway for the first time possessed a fleet of locomotives that was exclusively standard gauge. Under the auspices of George Armstrong William Dean & George Jackson Churchward a number of classic locomotive designs emerged from both Wolverhampton & Swindon works during the final decades of the 19th century. These included the Dean Goods 0-6-0s the Star class 4-6-0s the City class 4-4-0s & the County class 4-4-0s. Peter Darke draws upon the collection of a photographer who was active during the years from 1907 until the early 1960s; he travelled widely over the GWR network during the last years of the company prior to the Grouping in 1923 recording primarily the locomotives & trains that were then in service. The volume

Includes:: a historical overview of the GWR during the Edwardian period coupled with a variety of photographs & detailed captions. He also outlines a number of other pre-Grouping companies
- such as the Midland & South Western Joint
- that were to become part of the GWR in 1923and goes on to discuss the locomotives that the GWR inherited from these companies at the Grouping.