The LNER 2-6-0 Classes - Ian Allan
- The LNER 2-6-0 Classes
- The bulk of the work of this world is performed, not by the great and the brilliant, but by hordes of ordinary people. In the same way of most of the work on the railway was performed by ordinary locomotives. No class of locomotive has been a more typical workhorse than the 2-6-0 type. On the LNER the type was used on all classes of traffic, from the humble loose coupled freight to all but the fastest of passenger trains. For many years Gresley's Mogul engines hauled the fastest fitted freight trains in the country on LNER lines. In course of time the development of the larger V2 class 2-6-2 locomotives caused the 2-6-0s to take a rather lower place in the LNER order of precedence, but the last LNER Mogul design, the K1 of 1949, proved to be among the best freight engines for its size.
- With 50 photographs, many from the vast collection of T.G.Hepburn, this book traces the history and development of the 2-6-0s from their appearance in 1842 through their years as the staple workhorses of the LNER to their final eclipse on the introduction of the V2 2-6-2s and the Pacifics. Well researched appendicies on their dimensions, personal histories, livery, and on some of the unfulfilled projects help create a balanced and complete survey of this much-loved type
- 1978, Hardback, 80 pages, 5½" x 8¾"
- Ian Allan Publishing
- ISBN-10 0711008442
- Pre-Owned, excellent
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