Great Western: The German Pacific Locomotive - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Western: The German Pacific Locomotive write by David Maidment. This book was released on 2017-08-30. Great Western: The German Pacific Locomotive available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The German Pacific Locomotive (Its Design and Development) is David Maidments fourth book in the series of Locomotive Profiles published by Pen & Sword. It is the first in the series to tackle an important range of overseas steam locomotives, the German pacific locomotives, which, with the Paris-Orleans pacific in France, were the first of that wheel layout in Europe and came to be the dominant type for express passenger work throughout Western Europe for the following fifty years, until displaced by diesel and electric traction. The German railways in the first two decades of the twentieth century were run principally as regional State railways, and two distinct styles of design developed, which were influenced by the natural terrain. In the south, in the mountainous foothills of the European Alps, four cylinder compound locomotives with comparatively small coupled wheels, most produced by the famous firm of Maffei in Munich, held sway from 1907 until the late 1930s, and in parts of Bavaria that were not yet electrified, even until the early 1960s. In the flatter lands of the north, Prussian 4-6-0s sufficed until Paul Wagners standard two cylinder simple pacifics came onto the scene in 1925, and were followed by the three cylinder streamlined pacifics at the start of the Second World War. After addressing the devastating damage to the German railways in the conflict, the book follows the modernization of the locomotive fleet in the postwar period until the elimination of steam in both East and West Germany in the mid-late 1970s. The book describes the design, construction and operation of the full range of pacifics that ran in both parts of Germany, and the large numbers of these locomotives that have been preserved, and is illustrated with over 180 black and white and 80 colour photos.
Great Western, 0-6-0 Tender Goods Locomotive Classes
Great Western, 0-6-0 Tender Goods Locomotive Classes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Western, 0-6-0 Tender Goods Locomotive Classes write by David Maidment. This book was released on 2024-07-30. Great Western, 0-6-0 Tender Goods Locomotive Classes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive history of all the 0-6-0 tender locomotives built by the Great Western Railway or by railways absorbed by the GWR from the very earliest broad gauge engines designed by Daniel Gooch to the Collett 2251 class of the 1930s some of which were still under construction at nationalisation. It includes the Joseph Armstrong ‘Standard Goods’ and the famous Dean Goods, many of which served overseas in the two world wars. The text of 40,000 words describes the design, construction and operation of eight GW and five ‘Absorbed’ broad gauge classes, and thirteen GW and thirteen ‘Absorbed’ standard gauge classes. The book has over 250 black and white and 30 color photos, weight diagrams and drawings.
Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway
Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway write by David Maidment. This book was released on 2023-06-01. Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive history of all twenty-six classes of four coupled tank engines commissioned by the Great Western Railway or built at their Wolverhampton and Swindon Works, from the Broad Gauge 2-4-0 and 4-4-0 tanks of the 1840s and 1850s to the well known Collett 0-4-2 branch line engines of classes 48XX (later renumbered 14XX) and 58XX of the 1930s. As well as the Broad Gauge engines, the strange looking ‘Covertibles’ of William Dean, a number of experimental ‘one-off’ designs, the numerous Wolverhampton 0-4-2Ts of the ‘517’ class and the Swindon built ‘2-4-0 ‘Metro Tanks’ are described with – where known – their allocation and operation. The book includes twenty weight diagrams and nearly 300 photographs, over 50 in color. The four-coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western from other companies at or before 1923 will be featured in a separate volume to follow.
Four-coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Absorbed by the Great Western Railway
Four-coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Absorbed by the Great Western Railway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four-coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Absorbed by the Great Western Railway write by David Maidment. This book was released on 2023-10-30. Four-coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Absorbed by the Great Western Railway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a comprehensive history of the four coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western Railway – locomotives of nine Broad Gauge companies, nineteen Standard Gauge companies, mainly in the South West which became part of the GWR between the 1870s and 1914, and a further eighteen companies, mainly in South Wales absorbed by the GWR in 1922 and 1923 at the formation of the ‘Big Four’ Grouping. The locomotives described and illustrated range from the 4-4-0 Broad Gauge saddle tanks of the South Devon and Bristol & Exeter Railways to the large 4-4-4 tank locomotives of the Midland & South Western Junction Railway, not forgetting the numerous and varied 0-4-0 pug saddle tanks of the Swansea Harbour Trust and the Powlesland & Mason company. The book includes thirty-two weight diagrams and nearly 200 photographs, many of exotic and rare locomotives.
Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives in the Preservation Era
Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives in the Preservation Era - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives in the Preservation Era write by David Maidment. This book was released on 2023-07-30. Great Western Castle Class 4-6-0 Locomotives in the Preservation Era available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This third volume in the series on the Great Western Castle class locomotives focuses on the eight that have been preserved and goes into depth on the reconstruction of three of them, the two Tyseley ones, 5043 and 7029 described by Bob Meanley and Didcot’s 4079 recounted by David Maidment from the records of the Great Western Society, including the full story of 4079’s prolonged stay in Western Australia, its return to the UK and subsequent restoration. The history of all eight is covered and copiously illustrated, including over 100 color photographs, with many during the restoration work by Bob Meanley and in operation by David Maidment. The book includes records of their operation and performance since restoration when some of the most remarkable performances of these locomotives were achieved.
