Great Western: Eight Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives
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Great Western: Eight Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
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Great Western: Eight Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives

About this book

'Great Western Eight-Coupled Heavy Freight Locomotives' is the first of a series of 'Locomotive Profiles' to be published by Pen & Sword. It will describe the conception, design, building and operation of the fleet of powerful locomotives built in the first half of the twentieth century to meet the demands of the growing South Wales coal and steel industries and the West Midlands area served by the Great Western Railway. Whilst concentrating mainly on the standard designs of the great locomotive engineer, George Jackson Churchward, the 28XX and 47XX 2-8-0 locomotives, it will also cover the 2-8-0 and 2-8-2 tank engines designed for the South Wales Valleys mining areas and coal exports through Newport, Cardiff, Barry and Swansea Docks, and other 2-8-0 locomotives acquired by the Great Western to cope with the increased industrial needs during both world wars - the RODs, Swindon built 8Fs, WDs and American S160s. It will also cover the earliest designs of the Barry and Port Talbot Railways intended to cope with the valley coal traffic. The book will be copiously illustrated with 150 black and white and 50 coloured photographs and is a comprehensive record of some outstanding freight locomotives, many of the oldest engines still operating to the end of steam on British Railways in the mid 1960s, sixty years after they were designed."

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1 Overview
  7. Chapter 2 From Dean to Hawksworth
  8. Chapter 3 The Great Western Heavy Freight 2-8-0S
  9. Chapter 4 The Great Western Heavy Freight Tank Locomotives
  10. Chapter 5 The Churchward 4700 Class 2-8-0S
  11. Chapter 6 The GWR ROD 2-8-0S
  12. Chapter 7 The Swindon-Built Stanier 8F 2-8-0S
  13. Chapter 8 The American S160 2-8-0S on Loan to the GWR
  14. Chapter 9 The WD Austerity 2-8-0S
  15. Chapter 10 The Port Talbot Railway 0-8-2 Tanks and the Barry Railway 0-8-0S and 0-8-2 Tanks
  16. Appendices Weight Diagrams, Class Dimensions and Locomotive Statistics
  17. Bibliography