Wild Swan Books
Lancashire & Yorkshire Wagons Volume One
Noel Coates
Hardback - 194 pages - £25.95
Contents- Newton Heath Works and Wagon Building
- Liveries and Lettering
- Single Plank and Bolster Vehicles
- Low Goods
- Furniture Van Wagons
- Double Bolster
- 6-Wheel Rail Wagons
- 6-Wheel Timber Wagons
- Twin Timber Wagons
- Single Bolster
- 4-Wheel Rail Wagons
- Open Merchandise (Half Box) Wagons
- Low-sided Fruit
- Pitch Wagons
- 3-Plank Dropside
- Open Merchandise
- Fish Wagons
- High-sided Fruit
- 10T, 12T & 20T Fruit
- 20T Coal & Loco Coal
- Wagon Sheets
- Wagon Running Numbers
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway built, purchased or acquired over 67,000 goods vehicles over an 83 year period. This volume introduces the Miles Platting and Newton Heath Works, with a look at the methods of construction and liveries employed by the L & Y. It also provides an in-depth survey of single plank, bolster, and open merchandise (half-box) wagons, together with a useful appendix on wagon sheets.
The book is illustrated with many official photographs and drawings of the vehicles under review. Volume Two deals with covered goods, coal & mineral, bogie merchandise, livestock, tank, ballast, special wagons, miscellaneous vehicles and brake vans.
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