Bulleid Pacifics At Work
- Bulleid Pacifics At Work
- O.V.S.Bulleid was Sir Nigel Gresley's personal assistant on the LNER before he was invited to succeed Maunsell as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Southern Railway in 1937. Bulleid is one of the foremost names of railway history, ranking alongside celebrities like Gresley, Stanier and Churchward.
- The Merchant Navys and Light Pacifics were his most important designs - possibly the most modern and controversial engines to be run in this country at the time. Designed as mixed traffic locomotives, the first were built during the war and the pioneer Merchant Navys entered service in 1941.
- Then came the West Country followed by the Battle of Britain class in 1945. From 1956, after a decade of good service to the accompaniment of praise, controversy and often hostility, and some years after Bulleid left British Railways, the first Bulleid Pacifics were rebuilt to reduce maintenance costs and make the locomotives a more practical proposition. But it is a tribute to the standard of the original design that some worked through to the end of steam on the Southern Region in 1967 bloody, but not unbowed.
- 1980, Hardback, 128 pages, 8¾" x 12", 810g
- Ian Allan Publishing
- ISBN 0711010749
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- 1985, Hardback, 128 pages, 8¾" x 12", 810g
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