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Great Western, 0-6-2 Tank Classes - Absorbed and Swindon Designed Classes (Hardcover)
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Great Western, 0-6-2 Tank Classes - Absorbed and Swindon Designed Classes (Hardcover)
Series: Locomotive Portfolio
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After tackling the GW pannier tanks in his Locomotive Portfolios'
for Pen & Sword, author 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
onwards. The engines of eight different companies, absorbed by the
GWR in 1922, are described and illustrated, and the way in which
many were modernised and rebuilt at Swindon or Caerphilly Works in
the 1920s. Charles Collett was, however, faced with a motive power
crisis in the mining valleys at the Grouping, as many of the
companies had economised on essential maintenance as the GW's
take-over 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 1954/5\. The book has nearly 40,000 words of text
and around 300 black & white photographs.
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