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 from
the last decade or so of the nineteenth century onward. The engines of
eight different companies, absorbed by the GWR in 1922, are described
and illustrated, as well as the way in which many were modernized and
rebuilt at Swindon or Caerphilly Works in the 1920s. GWR Chief
Mechanical Engineer Charles Collett was, however, faced with a motive
power crisis in the mining valleys at the Grouping, as many of the
companies had economized on essential maintenance as the GW’s
takeover drew near, and he had to hurriedly design a standard 0-6-2T
to complement and bolster their work as the powerful GW 2-8-0Ts were
too heavy and wide for many of the Cardiff valleys. These engines, the
56XX & 66XX classes, became part of the South Wales scene between 1925
and 1964, mainly running the coal traffic between pits and docks,
although they dominated Cardiff Valley passenger services until the
influx of BR 3MT 2-6-2Ts and GW 41XX 2-6-2Ts in 1954 and 1955. With
around 300 black & white photographs, this book takes a wide-ranging
look at these locomotives.
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ISBN
9781526752062
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Pen & Sword Transport
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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