Highland Railway Volume 1 Early days to the ‘Lochs‘

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David Jones was in at the start of the Highland, assisting its first two locomotive superintendents, Barclay and Stroudley, equip the company with an inadequate fleet that struggled with increasing loads. In 1870 he took command and his excellent Duke 4-4-0 conversions introduced his trade mark louvred chimney. After enlarging the design into the capable Clyde Bogies, Straths and Lochs came his famous long-lived Big Goods, the first 4-6-0s in Britain. The two local authors, J. R. H.Cormack and J. L. Stevenson, include much new research in this book on the important 41-year period in locomotive history, 1855-96.