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REVIEWS
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review? Class 26, 27 and 33 Locomotives /Class 67 and 68 Locomotives
Send anybooks, DVDs or
other items to the editor at: Both by Andrew Cole
Rail Express,Media Centre, Published by Amberley
Morton Way, Horncastle, Lincolnshire www.amberley-books.com
LN9 6JR 96 pages, colour,234x165mm,softback. £14.99 each
READTHESEISSUESAND TWObooksbythe same author Scotland and the Type 3s built forthe which will be good forreferencing
HUNDREDSMOREINTHE focusing on Sulzer poweredType 2/3 Southern Region. None of the photos details but does makefor asomewhat
and modern Type 5locos. Theyboth
go back further than the mid-1980s,
‘dry’ read.
follow apicture-and-caption format, which is ashame because thereisarich The ‘67/68’ book followsthe same
with mostlytwo pictures per pages history missed from the first 20 years approach,giving the impression that
totalling around 180 photos in each. of their careers. The images arealso photos have been used based on what
classicmagazines.co.uk/rmarchive The Sulzer book covers the Type 2s mostlyclose-ups of locos in stations wasavailable rather than chosen for
that became synonymous with and depots, rather than heading trains, anyother specific reason.
Inter-City 125 Owners’ Workshop Manual D1000 Western Enterprise
By Chris Martin By Adrian Curtis
PublishedbyHaynes Published by TrackRecordPress
www.haynes.com www.westernlocomotiveresearchsociety.com
188 pages, colour,275x216mm,hardback. £25.00 82 pages, some colour,216x150mm,hardback. £14.99 each
COMPILED on behalfofthe 125 Group labelled diagrams of all the various THE author has embarked on an includes testing –beforegoing into
in the style of Haynes’classic series major parts), howHSTsare maintained, ambitious, but worthy,project to detail detailabout the specific loco. These
of car books, this is thereforeonlya and what it is like in the driver’s the lifeand times of all 74 Class 52 include things like workshistory,
tongue-in-cheek owners’manual –but cab. Thereisalso alook at the125 ‘Westerns’ –eachintheir ownself- allocations, notable workingsand
from an enthusiast’s point of view it Group’s restoration to working service contained book. The first twohave scrapping date –all backed up with a
offers an insight into the ‘nutsand of the NRM's prototype powercar been published covering classdoyen good selection of photos.
bolts’ ofClass 43 HSTpowercars that No. 41001. No. D1000 Western Enterprise and The ‘Westerns’ were,ofcourse, one
cannot be found elsewhere. This is afascinating and No. D1001 Western Pathfinder. of the most popular types of diesel loco
Writtenbyaclear expert, informativeread, highlyrecommended The bookseachbegin with apiece ever to run in this country –but nothing
thereare chapters covering the foranyone with an interest in these of ‘Western’ loco history –the D1000 like this has been attempted before
developmentof the HSTin the1970s, iconic locomotives that changed inter- book with the background to design and the series should add up to an
the anatomyofapowercar (including city rail travelinBritain. anddevelopment, while D1001’s impressivepiece of work.
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