Britain's World of Steam
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Recommended retail price: £19.95
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Stock reference: 88.001
Over 200 of the steam locomotives now preserved in Britain have either worked overseas or were supplied to British companies from abroad to operate in the UK. While some of these are familiar to British enthusiasts through pictures in the railway press, many have little-known histories or origins and even the existence of some of those in private hands is generally unknown to the majority of enthusiasts.
Since the preservation era steam locomotives of all gauges and sizes have been from former Empire or commonwealth countries but from parts of Europe, both east and west, and from other unlikely corners of the world. These include some truly exotic examples of the iron horse species! Quite a few of the Locos in this book have not been included in other published works simply because they fall outside the regular categories.
Apart from standard gauge European main line locos we now have in Britain examples of gauges 5'6'' and 5'0'', 3'6'' Cape gauge, metre gauge, 760mm/2'6'', 600mm/2' and various oddities. As enthusiasts have travelled to see steam around the globe they've been buying up locos when they are withdrawn to have them shipped home. This particularly applies to narrow gauge locomotives, large numbers of which have been retired and acquired from sugar plantations.
Added to all this are the ROD, WD, USATC, Feldbahn and Reichsbahn locomotives that served with armed forces abroad and have been preserved in Britain - and we've not forgotten to include British main line steam that toured America in the 1930s or has been in the preservation era.
All the locomotives are indexed by origin with works numbers given to aid researchers and to validate identities. Their working histories are described and current locations given.
Contents:
· Introduction
· British Railways Locomotives, back Home
· Locomotives Sent Abroad During the First World War
· American Locomotives of the Great War period
· The German narrow gauge 'Feldbahn' (field railway)
· British War Department Locomotives Repatriated
· United States Army Transpor Corps 'Over here'
· Exports to the Empire, Repatriated
· Out of Africa - Garretts Large and small
· Out of Africa - 3'6'' 'Cape' Gauge and Narrow Gauge
· Locomotives Built Abroad for service in Britain
· Main Line steam from Scandinavia
· Main Line Steam From France and Germany
· Polish Industrialists in Britain
· East European Narrow Gauge Locomotives
· West European Narrow Gauge Locomotives
· Orenstein & Koppel Narrow Gauge Locomotives
· narrow Gauge Steam from Spanish Lines
· The Guinness Brewery Locomotives
· 15'' Gauge Locomotives
· Steam Tram Locomotives
· Narrow Gauge Sugar Plantation Steam
· Index by Builder
By Paul Catchpole
Hardback. A4 format. 95 Pages
159 black & white photographs
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