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Book review: May 2011

Reviews this issue include:
• LMS Handbook 1923-1947
• GWR Handbook 1923-1947






 
 

LMS Handbook 1923-1947
GWR Handbook 1923-1947

Both by David Wragg

THIS handsome brace of books form half of what will presumably become a set of four. Like The Railway Magazine’s ‘Big Four’ souvenir issues of recent years, each takes the form of an introduction, followed by an overview of the constituent companies that made up the LMS and GWR at the Grouping of January 1923.

The books then go on to relate the various aspects of the railway companies concerned, using easily digestible chunks of information punctuated by interesting archive illustrations and rounded off with a list of locomotive names and details.

Although there is little that the ardent collector of LMS and GWR books will not know already, these volumes pack a surprising amount of information into their 250 or so pages and therefore form useful ‘one-stop’ histories of each company for readers new to the subject or for those for whom space is simply at a premium.

Both: Haynes Publishing, Sparkford, Somerset BA22 7JJ. 270x200mm.

GWR Handbook: 248pp; hardback;
ISBN 978-08573-3005-5; £27.50.

LMS Handbook: 256pp; hardback; ISBN
978-1-84425-828-4; £27.50