| Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester Contributor(s): Alexander, Colin (Author), Siton, Alon (Author) |
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ISBN: 1445685876 ISBN-13: 9781445685878 Publisher: Amberley Publishing OUR PRICE: $22.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Transportation | Railroads - History - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Physical Information: 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The world-famous Beyer, Peacock works of Gorton, Manchester, is remembered principally for its remarkable Beyer-Garratt articulated locomotives, which ran in forty-eight countries. The firm would also turn out steam lorries and steam tram engines. Among the company's iconic domestic designs were the 4-4-0T condensing engines for the pre-electrified Metropolitan Railway in London, the narrow-gauge 2-4-0 tank engine that is synonymous with the Isle of Man and the stylish and powerful diesel-hydraulic Hymeks for British Railways' Western Region. Beyer, Peacock exported many of its 8,000 steam, diesel and electric locomotives all over the world and this book illustrates a variety of these throughout the company's 112-year existence, beginning in 1854. |
Contributor Bio(s): Alexander, Colin: - "Colin Alexander has been a railway enthusiast for more than thirty years and volunteered on preserved Deltic locomotives. He was born in Northumberland, and has a life-long passion for local and transport history, sparked by his mother's copy of The King's England - Northumberland. Appreciative of the county's unique place geographically and historically, he has explored most of its once-inhabited hilltops and its mediaeval castles, and walked the length of its greatest defensive monument - Hadrian's Wall. He lives in Whitley Bay." |