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

by David Maidment

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399022563
• ISBN13: 9781399022569
• Release Date: June 2023
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
• Length: 200 Pages