Overview

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 travelled 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 colour illustrations. 30 colour and 170 b/w illustrations

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9781473852532

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Reviews

The work comes with an impressive visual section, 69 colour photographs, 299 black and white and an appendix with 9 diagrams of different types of machines. Without a doubt, another great piece of work from the Locomotive Portfolios series.--Jos Manu l Rico Cort s Miniaturas JM The book is excellently illustrated throughout, in both black and white and colour photographs, covering all periods of the locomotive's existence. Highly recommended to Southern supporters and others.--Historic Model Railway Society

The book is excellently illustrated throughout, in both black and white and colour photographs, covering all periods of the locomotive's existence. Highly recommended to Southern supporters and others.-- Historic Model Railway Society The work comes with an impressive visual section, 69 colour photographs, 299 black and white and an appendix with 9 diagrams of different types of machines. Without a doubt, another great piece of work from the Locomotive Portfolios series.--Jose Manuel Rico Cortes Miniaturas JM

Author Information

David Maidment was born in 1938. He began his railway career in 1961 and although he retired from the railway industry over eighteen years ago, he is still busy as a writer, activist in the voluntary sector and as a speaker in schools, church groups and general interest clubs. In 1966, David received an OBE for services to the railway industry and, in 2012, he received a Life Achievement Award at the National Rail Awards. His published works include articles on railway history, safety, practice, performance and nostalgia, and several books including The Other Railway Children and Lives on the Line, among other publications.

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