The Last Steam Locomotive Engineer, R.A. Riddles, CBE

ROGERS, Colonel H.C.B.

ISBN 10: 0043850537 / ISBN 13: 9780043850534

Published by George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1970

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1970, George Allen & Unwin Ltd, Approximately A5 portrait format hardback with dustjacket. 215pp including index. 17 chapters and 31 black and white illustrations on additional glossy pages. Average two views per page. The book is signed by the author with a dedication to presumably the original owner of the book. Minor wear to the edges of the dustjacket but the book itself is in very good condition., Book weighs 526g. For UK buyer if book weighs more than 2Kg when packed (allow 150g-200g for packing) we will request additional postage. For non UK buyer the threshold is 399g surface mail, 150g airmail. Please don't order unless prepared to pay or ask first. ISBN 0043850537.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Last Steam Locomotive Engineer, R.A. Riddles, CBE
• Publisher: George Allen & Unwin Ltd
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0043850537
• ISBN 13: 9780043850534
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Railways

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Synopsis

The occasion of the naming of an engine Royal Signals — a lunch party held by the London. Midland & Scottish Railway — was also the occasion of the first encounter between R. A. Riddles and his present biographer. Both were leaving the party early on their respective duties.'Where are you off to?'To see if the Guard of Honour has arrived.''Damn the Guard of Honour. I want to see if the engine has arrived.'This book is the outcome of that early meetirg. It deals with the career of a remarkable locomotive engineer who joined the Crewe Works of the old London & North Western Railway in the years before the First World War and rose to the very top of his profession, with responsibility on British Railways for more locomotives than any previous Chief Mechanical Engineer. He was respon-sible for the design of the 'Austerity' locomotives of the Second World War and for the Standard locomotives of British Railways. Of these,, his 2-10—0 has strong claims to being the finest steam engine ever to run in the British isles. R. A. Riddles is the last of the long line of British steam locomotive engineers.Colonel H. C. B. Rogers has been a railway enthusiast all his life. His hobby is writing on railways, military and naval matters, and his previous books The Pageant of Heraldry, Mounted Troops of the British Army, Turnpike to Iron Road, Tanks in Battle, Battles and Generals of the Civil Wars 1642-1651 Troopships and Their History and Weapons of the British Soldier