Rail Data Review Details

Title:	Private-Owner Wagons in Colour (For the Modeller and Historian)
Author:	David Ratcliffe
Publisher:	Ian Allan
Format:	Book
Subject:	Wagons
Category:	Photos
Spec:	11in x 8.5in, card covers, 96 pages, 220 colour photos, ISBN: 978-0-7110-3365-8
Publication date:	2009
Summary:	Excellent photos (including some rarities) and well-researched captions combine to cover most of the modern private-owner types.
Review:	The 'For the Modeller and Historian' series has covered a range of subjects in recent years, including two titles on wagons by Robert Hendry ('BR Goods Wagons in Colour' and 'BR Goods Wagons in Colour 1960-2003', although the latter also included private owner wagons). The latest title is by David Ratcliffe and is to the same large format as earlier titles, with 220 excellent colour photos on glossy paper. Captions provide details of the wagon and, often, the services they were employed on. The pictures are mainly from the 1990s and coverage is fairly good, particularly for tank wagons (90-odd photos). One exception I noticed was that the bogie container flats used for domestic waste traffic were not included. Rarities that are illustrated include Johnnie Walker and MoD Palvans, and the PMVs (ex MDV) very briefly used as scrap carriers in Scotland. This book very nicely captures the huge variety of designs (and, more notably, liveries) that characterised the PO fleet.
Reviewed:	03/01/2010 by Thomas Young (Comments made by others can appear in the notes section towards the bottom of this page)
Sample pages:	(Click on any image to view full-sized in a new window) The front cover. After a 4-page introduction, most pages contain 2 or 3 large colour photos and extended captions.
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