The Urie and Maunsell Cylinder 4-6-0s (Locomotive Portfolios) - Hardcover

Book 9 of 24: Locomotive Portfolios

Maidment, David

 
9781473852532: The Urie and Maunsell Cylinder 4-6-0s (Locomotive Portfolios)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1473852536 ISBN 13: 9781473852532
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport, 2017

Synopsis

This book is one in the Pen & Sword Transport History imprint in the ‘Locomotive Portfolio’ series and covers the family of two-cylinder 4-6-0s designed and built by the Chief Mechanical Engineers of the London & South Western and Southern Railways between 1914 and 1936, which survived well into the era of British Railways.

The N15 ‘King Arthur’ class of express passenger engines were the mainstay of the Southern Railway’s passenger business between the two world wars, but both Robert Urie and Richard Maunsell built mixed traffic and freight locomotives of a similar ilk forming a ‘King Arthur’ family of locomotives for all purposes that were simple, robust and long lived. This book describes the conception, design and construction of the N15, H15 and S15 classes and the N15X rebuilds of the LB&SCR ‘Baltic Tanks’ and their operation in traffic before and after the Second World War, until the withdrawal of the last Maunsell 4-6-0 in 1965.

The book includes extensive personal recollections of the author, who both saw and traveled on hundreds of trains hauled by many of these engines in the 1950s and ‘60s, and gives a brief summary of those that have been preserved on Britain’s heritage railways.

The book is copiously illustrated with over 200 black and white and color illustrations.

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About the Author

David Maidment was a senior manager with British Railways, with widespread experience of railway operating on the Western and London Midland Regions culminating in the role of Head of Safety Policy for the BRB after the Clapham Junction train accident.

He retired in 1996, was a Principal Railway Safety Consultant with International Risk Management Services from 1996 to 2001 and founded the Railway Children charity (www.railwaychildren.co.uk) in 1995. He was awarded the OBE for services to the rail industry in 1996 and is now a frequent speaker on both the charity.

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Publisher
Pen and Sword Transport
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1473852536
ISBN 13 
9781473852532
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
264