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Product Description: The 2-6-0 mogul steam locomotives were designed by Richard Maunsell for passenger duties on the Southern Railway, and they were used mainly on cross-country and semi-fast expresses. Able to operate over most of the Southern Railway network after grouping in 1923, the sturdy 2-6-0 moguls survived until 1966, when all had been withdrawn from service...read more
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9780711034006 | Ian Allan Pub, March 30, 2010, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The 2-6-0 mogul steam locomotives were designed by Richard Maunsell for passenger duties on the Southern Railway, and they were used mainly on cross-country and semi-fast expresses.
Product Description: Faced by the need to construct a new class of express passenger locomotive for the Southern Railway's top-link services from London to Dover and to the southwest, the railway's then CME, Richard Maunsell, developed the 4-6-0 'LN' class...read more
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9780711032477 | Ian Allan Pub, December 30, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Faced by the need to construct a new class of express passenger locomotive for the Southern Railway's top-link services from London to Dover and to the southwest, the railway's then CME, Richard Maunsell, developed the 4-6-0 'LN' class.
Product Description: Widely considered to be the greatest locomotive design produced by Maunsell and often regarded as the finest 4-4-0 ever designed and built in Britain, the first of the 40-strong 'Schools' class emerged from Eastleigh Works in 1930...read more
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9780711031784 | Ian Allan Pub, November 22, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Widely considered to be the greatest locomotive design produced by Maunsell and often regarded as the finest 4-4-0 ever designed and built in Britain, the first of the 40-strong 'Schools' class emerged from Eastleigh Works in 1930.
Product Description: Based around a design of R.W. Urie from 1918 for an express passenger class of 4-6-0s, the 'King Arthur' or 'N15' class eventually totalled around 74 locomotives. The original 20 locomotives built to Urie's design were, however, not successful and when Maunsell was faced by the necessity, soon after the Grouping of 1923, to construct further express locomotives he took the opportunity to modify the original design and alongside the new build locomotives, also modified the original 20...read more
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9780711030862 | Ian Allan Pub, October 19, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Based around a design of R.
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