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Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock
  
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Metropolitan Railway Rolling Stock (Paperback)

by James R. Snowdon (Author)
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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Wild Swan Publications Ltd (Dec 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1874103666
  • ISBN-13: 978-1874103660
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,883,779 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Undoubtably the best book so far on this topic, 8 May 2003
Superb reproduction of old photos, many of which I've not seen before. Very detailed history of each of the Metropolitan's Carriage designs, from the earliest days until absorption into the LPTB, and including a good section on goods vehicles. Very clear side and end elevation drawings will be a boon for the modeller, and some original works drawings of underframes provide the modeller with much of the detail that is always unclear from photos.

I learnt much new about the rigid 8-wheel stock, including about their later re-builds, and about the later "Jubilee" 4-wheeled stock which hadn't really come to my notice before.

Only concern was a quick look at some of the tables of coach re-numberings, where there was the occasional inconsitency between the dates of conversion to electric stock for the particular carriages I was interested in (i.e. the bogie stock we're currently overhauling at the Bluebell Railway), and an unfortunate mis-credit to the late "Robin" Greenaway, who was known as Robert/Bob when I met him.

But a very clearly laid out book, easy to dip into and find the information you're interested in, all nicely presented, and also very readable. You can balance the fact that it's softback against the reasonable price, when compared to other similar specialist railway books.

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