The North British Railway was established in 1844, based in Edinburgh it was one of the two biggest of the five major Scottish railway companies prior to the 1923 Grouping. In North British Locomotives in LNER Days Brian J Dickson brings together photographs from the Transport Treasury archive, many previously unpublished, focusing on the locomotives of the North British Railway. There are also examples of a number of former NBR Classes that never reached the Nationalisation of the railways in 1948. The photographs are mainly presented in full-page format, with detailed captions at the foot of each page.
In Scotland after the Grouping in 1923 the LNER relied heavily on the stock of former North British Railway 0-6-0 classes to work the huge amounts of goods and mineral traffic it handled. These comprised of almost 350 examples that dated from the Matthew Holmes designed Class ‘C’ of the 1880s to the William Reid designed Classes ‘B’ and ‘S’ from 1906 onward. Passenger traffic remained mainly in the hands of the Holmes and Reid designed 4-4-0s with much of the Edinburgh and Aberdeen traffic capably handled by the majestic ‘Atlantic’ class allocated to Haymarket, Ferryhill and Dundee Tay Bridge sheds.
80 black & white photographs. Hardback. 80 pages.