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Four-coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway

Front cover photo:
The preserved 4866 in GW livery at the Great Western Railway Centre, Didcot, 2017. (David Maidment)

Back cover photos:
Broad gauge Hawthorn class 2-4-0ST Ostrich rebuilt from 1865 built 2-4-0 in 1877, c1890. (LPC/F.K. Davies/John Hodge Collections)

1105 in BR livery of black with red backed numberplate at Danygraig shed, 1953. (N. Harrop/MLS Collection)

The Wolverhampton built prototype 0-4-2T of the 517 class, in the blue/green livery applied in the 19th century to the Wolverhampton constructed engines. It is seen at Birmingham Snow Hill in July 1900, the original photograph colourised by Andrew Knowles of the Great Western Society to illustrate this rarely seen livery. (G.M.Perkins/Steve Armitage Collection/Rail-Online)

Four-coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway

DAVID MAIDMENT

First published in Great Britain in 2023 by

Pen & Sword Transport

An imprint of Pen & Sword Books Ltd

Yorkshire - Philadelphia

ISBN 978 1 39902 256 9

Epub ISBN 978 1 39902 257 6

Mobi ISBN 978 1 39902 257 6

The right of David Maidment to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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Other books by David Maidment:

Novels (Religious historical fiction)

The Child Madonna, Melrose Books, 2009

The Missing Madonna, PublishNation, 2012

The Madonna and her Sons, PublishNation, 2015

The Reluctant Traitor, PublishNation, 2021

Novels (Railway fiction)

Lives on the Line, Max Books, 2013

Steamy Stories, PublishNation, 2021 (Short stories)

Non-fiction (Railways)

The Toss of a Coin, PublishNation, 2014

A Privileged Journey, Pen & Sword, 2015

An Indian Summer of Steam, Pen & Sword, 2015

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About Four-Coupled Tank Locomotive Classes Built by the Great Western Railway

This book is a comprehensive history of all twenty-six classes of four coupled tank engines commissioned by the Great Western Railway or built at their Wolverhampton and Swindon Works, from the Broad Gauge 2-4-0 and 4-4-0 tanks of the 1840s and 1850s to the well known Collett 0-4-2 branch line engines of classes 48XX (later renumbered 14XX) and 58XX of the 1930s. As well as the Broad Gauge engines, the strange looking 'Covertibles' of William Dean, a number of experimental 'one-off' designs, the numerous Wolverhampton 0-4-2Ts of the '517' class and the Swindon built '2-4-0 'Metro Tanks' are described with – where known – their allocation and operation. The book includes twenty weight diagrams and nearly 300 photographs, over 50 in color. The four-coupled tank engines absorbed by the Great Western from other companies at or before 1923 will be featured in a separate volume to follow.

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