Bundle – Highland Railway – 2 Volumes

Description

Volume 1 Early days to the ‘Lochs‘

David Jones was in at the start of the Highland, assisting its first two locomotive superintendents, Barclay and Stroudley, equip the company with an inadequate fleet that struggled with increasing loads. In 1870 he took command and his excellent Duke 4-4-0 conversions introduced his trade mark louvred chimney. After enlarging the design into the capable Clyde Bogies, Straths and Lochs came his famous long-lived Big Goods, the first 4-6-0s in Britain. The two local authors, J. R. H.Cormack and J. L. Stevenson, include much new research in this book on the important 41-year period in locomotive history, 1855-96.

Volume 2 Drummond, Smith & Cummings Classes

The early twentieth century was a most eventful period for the Highland. Drummond introduced inside cylinder designs with the Bens and the Barneys. George Smith followed with the contentious River class, designed for the enormously increased wartime loads but refused by the civil engineer. They were sold to the Caledonian, proved themselves successful, and after grouping many were used by the LMS over Highland metals!

James Cormack and James Stevenson detail the three engineers’ designs from 1895 to the Clans, the battle to serve the demands of wartime, individual engine design modifications, shed allocations and operating history, projected designs and the preservation initiatives – both successful and otherwise – in a most readable style.