Hot of the press from my friends at the Irwell Press are four new excellent paperback books all about the Southern Big Tanks. The four books cover the London Southern Western Railway Urie G16 class 4-8-0Ts and H16 4-6-2Ts Z class and the later Maunsell Z class 0-8-0Ts and W class 2-6-4Ts. These follow in the style of their more usual hardback “The Book of Series” with historical background information about each class , their design, liveries and spheres of operation, photographs along, with particular details and photographs of each individual locomotive taken from their works records. the books are of the usual high standard of detail, information and photograph reproduction that we have come to expect from the Irwell Press at a reasonable price of £13.95 each. As they say available from all good bookstores, and probably some not so good ones too!
Southern Big Tanks:1 G16 class
Southern Big Tanks:2 H16 class
Southern Big Tanks:3 Z class
Southern Big Tanks:4 W class
Further information about my models of members of the four class shown above can be read on my Talking Stock posts as follows:
A post about my W class model will follow soon. In the meantime I can recommend these book to any Southern Railway historian or modeller alike.
PS have you entered my little competition yet to win a brand new Hornby R2620 Urie N15 King Arthur Class number 746 ‘ Pendragon’ in Bulleid post war malachite green livery? The closing date is this coming Thursday 28th July, full details can be found here.
Totally agree these are well worth the money, there’s a really interesting anecdote about Guildford shed ‘borrowing’ a G16 for six months!
These are super books and (as usual) very informative.
An excellent read!