Canadian pacific wheat train howden, boys book of locomotives, 1907. 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. Reviewed in the united kingdom on december 29, 2012. 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. 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 british railways standard class 5mt 460 was one of the 12 standard classes of steam locomotive built by british railways in the 1950s. I have waited over two years for this book to help complete the set, only to find that. 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. The oberservers book of railway locomotives of britain, edited by. The basic dimensions and features of class include. Download pdf the book of the br standard class 5 4 6 0s book full free.
Br standard 4s 460, 260 and 264t steam locomotives class. The book of the br standard class 5 460s by ian sixsmith. Br standard class 5 double heading with br 9f departing quorn on the gcr. 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. Pdf the book of the br standard class 5 4 6 0s download.