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Title:British Railways Unfitted and Vacuum-Braked Wagons in Colour Review image
Author:Trevor Mann
Publisher:Ian Allan
Format:Book
Subject:Wagons
Category:Photos
Spec:96 pages, A4 sized, hard-back, 233 colour photos. ISBN: 978-0-7110-3636-9
Publication date:2013
Summary:Does what it says on the tin. Colour photos of many types of unfitted and vacuum-braked wagons, with extended captions giving a lot of history and background.
Review:This book, together with one covering the air-braked fleet, form a pair that between them give a pretty good overview of the wagons built for BR between nationalisation and privatisation (some later views are included but types introduced more recently are not covered). Although quite slim, they pack a lot in. The first book in particular has smaller photos (usually 2 or 3 to a page) to allow for very lengthy captions. The captions themselves give general details of the type being illustrated, as well as the particulars of the individual wagon. The photos are all colour and almost uniformly excellent. Naturally it has been impossible to illustrate some types in their original forms, and quite a few are shown in later life (such as departmental and internal user vans, while the Palbrick could only be shown as a Freightliner match wagon). There are some real gems though, including several types I had never seen before (such as FTV container flat ex-Tube and XLV Lowmacs loaded with dummy nuclear flask and a Land Rover). Recommended.
Reviewed:10/07/2016 by Thomas Young (Comments made by others can appear in the notes section towards the bottom of this page)
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Page image The front cover.
Page image Typical inside page with smallish photos and extended captions.
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