British Railways Pre-Nationalisation Coaching Stock Volume 1

This is a complete list of the coaching stock inherited by British Railways from the Great Western Railway and London & North Eastern Railway including any pre-Grouping stock still in use when the railways were nationalised in 1948. The book covers passenger as well as non-passenger coaches, including corridor and non-corridor stock, sleepers, buffet and restaurant cars, horse boxes and other non-passenger vans, etc. Conversions to departmental stock are also listed. The information in the book is organised by 'Big Four' company and each individual coach is listed, with details of when it was built, introduction and withdrawal dates. Alongside the tabular material will be a line drawing of each carriage type and a selection of mono photographs illustrating examples of the various types of coach being described. Encyclopaedic in coverage, this new volume continues in the same style as previous volumes with completely comprehensive detail combined with reference illustrations and photographs.