Standards in Steam – Volumes 53 & 55: NSWGR Steam Locomotive Reference (Softcover)

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Standards in Steam-53 & 55 (Soft Cover)

Covering the 2-8-0 goods engines introduced between 1912 and 1925.

 

Features include:

 

• Why some engines came ahead of others, some with superheaters, some without.

• The many changes and improvements made over the years.

• Examination of the traffic the 310 engines hauled on many lines in New South Wales.

• The many problems that affected the locos and the conversion of many 55 class to burn oil.

• A look at the related K class of the Commonwealth Railways.

 

Written in the authors entertaining and authoritative style.

 

Fully illustrated with over 296 photographs, numerous drawings and diagrams, poems, data tables, full index.

Published: 2000

Pages: 244

Format: Softcover

ISBN: 978-1-876568-12-2

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