British Carriage & Wagon Builders & Repairers 1830-2018

Originally published in 2007 and long been out of print, this book has been produced as an enlarged edition. This book details the many railway carriage and wagon building firms for which Great Britain was once noted. Not only are the big players, such as Charles Roberts, the Gloucester Railway Carriage & Wagon, the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon and Hurst, Nelson, covered but so are many dozen of the smaller businesses, some almost one-man bands. Since the original publication a large amount of new material has come to light adding greatly to the known number of wagon builders. In the main this is due to the huge number of searchable nineteenth century newspaper pages that have become available digitally. The companies have been listed alphabetically with the links between firms highlighted for ease of cross reference. This book makes a wonderful contribution to British industrial and railway history.