The cover is nothing like the rest of the series and is a great disappopintment. Buy the book of the br standard class 5 460s by sixsmith, ian, derry, richard isbn. The british railways standard class 5mt 460 was one of the 12 standard classes of steam locomotive built by british railways in the 1950s. Reviewed in the united kingdom on december 29, 2012. Robert riddles, british rail s head of mechanical and electrical engineering, set about designing a new locomotive, principally from br s brighton works, as a solution to this problem. This book is advertised as being in the locomotives in detail series. They were designed for mixed traffic use on secondary routes where the otherwise ubiquitous br standard class 5 and their predecessors, the black fives, would be too heavy. Records of the rugby locomotive testing station national railway. Br standard class 5 double heading with br 9f departing quorn on the gcr. Canadian pacific wheat train howden, boys book of locomotives, 1907.
They were essentially a tender version of the standard 4 264t, with similar characteristics to the gwr manor class, though unlike the manors they were built to the universal loading gauge. The book of the br standard class 5 460s by ian sixsmith. Br standard 4s 460, 260 and 264t steam locomotives class. The parent design office was derby but, as in the case of other b. Beautifully illustrated series of essays considering the 12 different classes of british railways steam locomotives built between 1951 and 1960. The book of the br standard class 5 4 6 0s available for download and read online in other formats. Read more many of the components for the standard class 4mt were similar to those used in the standard class 5 and, as a class, there were few significant. Between 1951 and 1957 one hundred and seventy two 172 standard class 5 4 6 0 steam locomotives were built by british railways at doncaster and derby. Pdf the book of the br standard class 5 4 6 0s download. I have waited over two years for this book to help complete the set, only to find that. The basic dimensions and features of class include. Cox in his book british railways standard steam locomotives pub.