BR Parcels and Passenger-Rated Stock Volume 1: Full Brakes,
Parcels & Miscellaneous Vans and Car-carrying Vehicles
The first five
Kestrel Railway Books volumes by David Larkin looked at the
revenue-earning wagon fleet operated by British Railways and its successor,
British Rail. These were followed by a
series of three books looking at the specially-designed wagons that were used
for track maintenance, and we now see the first of three volumes covering
parcels and passenger-rated stock.
All parcels trains required a vehicle in which the guard travelled, and
there was usually space for a parcels-related load as well. This volume looks at the various designs
operated during the BR period, and to these are added the vans without guard’s
accommodation, known as parcels and miscellaneous vans, and the covered
carriage trucks. These latter vehicles had end doors to allow vehicles to be
loaded, but could also be used as normal parcels vans.
Volume 2 (out of print) covers livestock vehicles, such as the horse boxes and
special cattle vans, and perishable-traffic vehicles for fish, fruit and
milk. Volume 3 covers self-propelled parcels vans, TPOs
and car-carrying vehicles for Motorail services.
Softback: 96 pages
273
x 215mm
978-1-905505-33-3
Price: £15.00
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