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    The Book of the Ivatt 2 2-6-2Ts  £32.95

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    The Ivatt Class 2 tanks and moguls were amongst the last new LMS designs and although intended for secondary duties to replace a variety of ancient pre-grouping specimens, they incorporated all of the refinements developed over the previous decade and honed by Ivatt on his post-war Black Fives. The two classes were developed together, using the same boiler, sharing as many components as possible and they were very much complementary. Operationally, they worked mostly in different areas and on different duties and hence the story of the tender version is covered separately in the Book of the Ivatt 2-6-0s. There was no class that was so immediately and universally accepted by enginemen. Not only did they welcome both the tender and tank versions with open arms, "they worshipped the very rails they stood on". The 2-6-2Ts were really the last small tank locomotive designed for Britain’s railways; the BR Standard Class 2 in the 84000 series being merely a slightly modified version.

    The Glorious Years of the GWR  £27.50

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    The Glorious Years of the Great Western Railway
    by Peter Tuffrey

    Publication October 2024

    A superb edition with over 230 outstanding photographs and thoroughly researched, informative captions.

    Beautifully produced in hardback with rare and previously unseen images.

    The Great Railway Conspiracy  £14.99

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    The year is 1964 and a small boy passes his fifth birthday playing on a derelict railway line. The place is Upwey Junction in Dorset, where the Abbotsbury branch used to leave the main Lonodon to Weymouth railway. The last remnants of rail had been removed just a few weeks previously as part of a relentless process of railway closures in the Britain of the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The boy is David Henshaw who came, like his contemporaries, to accept an ever-shrinking railway network as part of the British way of life. Only now, with the railways growing at a rate unprecendented in their long history, is the loss of so many useful routes so dearly felt. Inspired by such childhood memories, David Henshaw sets out to put the record straight in The Great Railway Conspiracy.

    William Adams: His Life & Locomotives  £25.00

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    William Adams (1823 – 1904) is probably best known from his locomotive designs for the London & South Western Railway. The years at Nine Elms were the culmination of career which began formally in marine engineering, including a period at sea with the Royal Sardinian Navy, encompassed civil engineering and surveying before joining the North London Railway as locomotive, carriage and wagon superintendent. This book tells the story of a genial man with a love of music, who was undoubtedly one of the finest late Victorian locomotive engineers.