Author: Semmens, Peter, Title: A HISTORY OF THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY - 3. WARTIME AND THE FINAL YEARS, 1939-48.
Description: Guild Publishing, London, 1985, club edn., 102pp, half tone photo ills. and maps in text, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, half tone photo pictorial dustwrapper, rthird and final volume in the series history, covering the impact of WW2 on the railway, the damage to the locomotives, rolling stock and track, the extra miles of permanent way and the shortage of materials, the conversion of many locomotives to oil, more 'Castles' and the 'Halls' and 'Counties', and finally nationalisation, edges a little dusty, dustwrapper: faint foxing to flaps and reverse, very good in a very good dustwrapper,
Keywords: transport railways steam locomtives great western ww2
Price: GBP 5.50 = appr. US$ 7.85 Seller: A Book for all Reasons
- Book number: 41204
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