LNER LOCOMOTIVES TO SCALE BY IAN BEATTIE – SUPERB CONDITION !

Published  by D. Bradford Barton this blue and black design hardback volume ‘L.N.E.R. Locomotives to Scale’ by Ian Beattie, 61pp, ISBN 0851533981 presents 15 4mm to 1 foot scale line drawings, photographs and brief biographical details of selected L.N.E.R. locomotives as an aid to the railway modeller. Includes LNER classes: Gresley 02 Class 2-8-0, 1924. Photo shows No. 63975 at Doncaster shed in 1957; Gresley K3 Class 2-6-0, 1924. Photo shows No. 61862 at Cambridge, Sept. 1953; Gresley J39 Class 0-6-0, 1926. Photo shows No. 64810 at Stratford, November 1954; Gresley J50 Class 0-6-0T, 1926. Photo shows No. 68989 at King’s Cross terminus, July 1959; Gresley D49 Class ‘Shire’ 4-4-0, 1927. Photo shows No. 62711 ‘Dumbartonshire’, St. Margaret’s Shed, June 1960; Gresley A3 Class 4-6-2, 1927. Photo shows No. 60050 ‘Persimmon’ at Doncaster shed in May 1960 with Banjo dome, tender with coal rails and prominent superheater header inspection cover on the smokebox; Gresley B17 Class Sandringham 4-6-0, 1928. Photo shows No. 61669 ‘Barnsley’ at Colchester station, May 1958; Gresley V1 Class 2-6-2T, 1930. Photo shows No. 2900 at Eastfield Shed, September 1931; Gresley P2 Class 2-8-2, 1934. Photo shows No. 2001 ‘Cock o’ the North’ in original unrebuilt form at Edinburgh Haymarket locomotive shed, June 1935; Gresley A4 Class 4-6-2, 1935. Photo shows No. 60022 (4468) ‘Mallard’ at King’s Cross Shed in November 1958. Mallard is now a static exhibit at the National Railway Museum in York, UK; Gresley V2 Class 2-6-2, 1936. Photo shows No. 60914 at Doncaster, September 1954; Gresley K4 Class 2-6-0, 1937. Photo shows No. 3442 ‘The Great Marquess’ at Nine Elms, a Southern Railway Shed in March 1967 Thompson B1 Class 4-6-0, 1942. Photo shows No. 61028 ‘Umseke’ at Neasden, April 1955; Thompson L1 Class 2-6-4T, 1945. Photo shows No. 67756 at Neasden, March 1957; Peppercorn A2 Class 4-6-2, 1947. Photo shows No. 60536 ‘Trimbush’ at Edinburgh Haymarket shed in August 1955