From Control Offices to Eceptional Loads (Volume 2) (GWR Goods Train Working) - Hardcover

Atkins, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1909328545 ISBN 13: 9781909328549

Publisher: Crecy Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

The name of Tony Atkins will need no introduction to followers of the Great Western Railway. In Part 2 of this monumental work on Great Western Goods working, the story is taken forward starting with 20th Century goods train on the GWR working to the various types of special traffic handled. This heavily illustrated volume looks at perishable traffic: flowers, fruit and vegetables, banana workings, as well as livestock, refrigerated and fish traffic. There are also sections on dangerous goods and exceptional loads, the movement of the latter often requiring considerable planning to avoid structures and other trains from a load which was outside the standard loading gauge. The culmination of several decades of painstaking research this complex and detailed subject is split into two volumes, both rightly deserving a place on the bookshelf of the enthusiast and historian.

Edition details

• Publisher: Crecy Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909328545
• ISBN 13: 9781909328549
• Binding: Hardcover