Product Description: This latest title explores the history of the standard classes that emerged after the victory of the diesel-electric school. The follow up to the author's Diesel Pioneers, Hydraulic vs. Electric provides significant primary research into official records accompanied by 175 mono illustrations...read more

Product Description: In 2005, Ian Allan Publishing published Diesel Pioneers, which provided a complete overview of the development of the early diesel classes inherited by BR and those that were developed as part of the Modernization Plan of 1955. This lovely new book takes the subject forward and covers the standard diesel locomotive designs that were made during the early 1960s which include the Class 33s, the 37s, the 47s, the Hymeks, the Westerns and the Deltics as well as the less successful Claytons...read more