This significant new book provides a single reference work to all
the departmental locomotives - steam, diesel, electric and battery
- both standard and narrow gauge operated by BR from 1948 to the
end of steam in 1968. Although the railways employed the vast bulk
of their locomotive stock on commercial passenger and freight
traffic, many also employed a number for departmental duties. These
may have been narrow gauge, for example, for use in the major
workshops such as Crewe and Horwich or withdrawn ex-main-line
locomotives that eked out their final day or months in a secondary
duty at a locomotive shed. At Nationalisation in 1948 BR inherited
a number of these departmental locomotives from the 'Big Four'
companies and, over the next 20 years, a number of further steam
and other locomotives were transferred to departmental duties,
including a significant number used as stationary boilers. The
transfer of locomotives from capital to departmental stock did not
cease with the end of steam and examples of diesel and electric
locomotives being renumbered into the departmental series continued
effectively until the end of BR in the early 1990s. The book
includes information about the locations at which the locomotives
worked and provides full details of each individual locomotive's
record in departmental service. The book is illustrated throughout
with Ordnance Survey maps and photographs of the locomotives and
locations.
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