Wagons of the Early British Railways Era

A Pictorial Study of the 1948 to 1954 Period

by David Larkin

David Larkin is well-known for his study of British Railways goods wagons, and this new work pays particular attention to those ordered by BR in the earliest years of its existence.  The "Big Four" pre-Nationalisation companies all had outstanding wagon orders under construction in 1948, and these continued to be delivered with their original numbers, albeit with new prefix letters.

In addition, the newly-created BR acquired a fleet of wagons from the erstwhile Ministry of War Transport.  These are also considered in this book, together with the early BR orders for wagons based on the "Big Four" designs and on its own early standard designs in the period up to the eve of the "Modernisation Plan" of 1955.

Profusely illustrated, this book includes lot and diagram details, wagon number ranges, builder's and livery details of vehicles as diverse as Lowfit wagons, open wagons, containers and container wagons, mineral wagons, ventilated vans, railtanks, cattle wagons and brake vans.

“Will be of great use to conscientious modellers of this interesting period”. Railway Modeller

Softback: 96 pages with 138 photographs

ISBN-10: 0-9544859-8-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-9544859-8-6

Price: £13.00