A Celebration of Bulleid West Country and Battle of Britain Pacifics

Fourth in this great series with the simple old-fashioned aim to display top quality photographs reproducing them at the largest possible size, to celebrates some of the best-loved steam classes. Full-page shots are presented in a landscape format and come with comprehensive captions.

Oliver Bulleid’s Light Pacifics could be found on duties ranging from the ‘Night Ferry’ and ‘Golden Arrow’ to pottering around Devon and Cornwall with a couple of coaches. They were in effect smaller versions of the Merchant Navy class and included the same innovative features such as ‘air-smoothed’ casings, chain driven valve gear, high boiler pressure, ‘boxpok’ wheels and electric lighting.

The emphasis throughout is on the engines in service and the book has been arranged in chapters in chronological order. The final chapters show them at work on the principal routes where they were employed, ending with the final year of Southern Region steam in 1967.

148 Pages approx 150 High Quality Black & White photographs