Rail Data Review Details

Title:	BR Air-Braked Wagons in Colour
Author:	David Ratcliffe
Publisher:	Ian Allan
Format:	Book
Subject:	Wagons
Category:	Photos
Spec:	96 pages, A4 sized, hard-back, 227 colour photos. ISBN: 978-0-7110-3460-0
Publication date:	2014
Summary:	Excellent photos covering almost every type of BR air-braked wagon (including some real rarities) are combined with captions detailing their development and use.
Review:	Picking up the story from the earlier title on unfitted and vacuum-braked wagons, this book covers the various types built following the adoption of air-brakes as standard in the 1960s. The photos, which again are excellent, are noticeably larger, resulting in shorter captions. There is still enough text to outline the histories of each type, as well as detailing the individual wagons, and often mentioning the actual traffic flow they were working (e.g. "Columbian coal from Liverpool Gladstone Dock to Fiddlers Ferry power station"). Some types do seem to get a lot of coverage - for example there are 6 OCAs, 6 VDAs and 9 OTAs - but they do all show detail or livery differences. There was of course less variety overall in the (much smaller) air-braked fleet, although most of the rarities - such as the BUA, FHA, MFA, OEA and VHA - are covered. My favourite photo has to be one of the YDA 'Skate' skip-carrying train actually working!
Reviewed:	10/07/2016 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. Typical inside page. Compared to the earlier book, the captions are shorter but the photos are larger.
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