Maunsell Locomotives

REL Maunsell's engineering career started in Ireland, where he graduated to the post of Chief Mechanical Engineer of the GSWR. He crossed to England just before the outbreak of WWI to take up the same post on the SECR, where his first new design, a 2-6-0, was selected as a postwar standard class for Britain's railways. With this design Maunsell introduced modern concepts to the locomotive practice of railways in the South and South East. An enterprising engineer, Maunsell was restricted by lack of money and severe civil engineering restrictions. Nevertheless, he contributed several good-looking and efficient designs to the development of the British steam locomotive, his masterpiece unquestionably being the three-cylinder School. This book was originally published in hardback in 1977 by one of Britain's foremost transport publishers and is now available for the first time in paperback. It has been freshly designed but will seek to retain the author's original text and illustrations.