The L&NER Delivers the Goods Volume Three

The L&NER Delivers the Goods Volume Three
Southern Area

Peter Tatlow

184 pages. 275x215mm. Printed on gloss art paper with colour laminated board covers.

ISBN13 : 9781915069542

£30.00

This concludes Peter Tatlow’s pioneering trilogy on the goods business of the L&NER. The conveyance of mundane goods traffic was the source of almost two-thirds of its total income, around twice that of the more glamorous job of carrying passengers and their luggage. This respected author sets the record straight by describing how the L&NER served the nation by delivering the goods and minerals entrusted to it. In this final volume, his attention is directed towards the description of goods activities in the L&NER’s Southern Area during its existence (1923-1949). This was an era without motorways, HGVs loaded with ISO containers or centrally generated electricity – a time before oil and gas from the North Sea resulted in the demise of the numerous humble steam-hauled goods trains.

The L&NER Delivers the Goods Volume Three - Sample Images

The last of six ½-ton casks containing tobacco flakes being secured, having been loaded by an overhead gantry crane onto a trailer hauled by an almost ten-year old-mechanical horse in Nottingham goods yard in February 1943. No. HD 6435, registration No. ALP 793, entered service on 8th November 1933. Note the white edges to the lower bodywork to help it show up in wartime black out. W. Aldridge collection

Like at Ipswich, ex-Wisbech & Upwell Sentinel tram engines worked the streets of Yarmouth, making cow catchers and side skirts necessary on the public highway. The two members of the ‘Y10’ Class, Nos. 8403 and 8404, were to be seen at Yarmouth from early 1934; this is No. 8404. Author’s collection