The Rolling Stock of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway

The Rolling Stock of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway

Nigel Digby, John Hobden and John Watling

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

ISBN13 : 9781915069603

£40.00

Many thousands of words have been written about the locomotives of the M&GN but until now the equally important and even more fascinating story of the railway’s rolling stock has been virtually ignored. The authors found this an intolerable situation and have undertaken this exhaustive research into the origins, development and ultimate fate of the passenger and goods stock of the line – from official documents, Diagram Books, first-hand accounts from the railwaymen involved and personal fieldwork on the surviving vehicles themselves – to tell this complicated story in as simple, logical and accessible a way as possible. It is illustrated with over 300 photographs and drawings of everything the interested enthusiast or dedicated modeller would want to know.

The Rolling Stock of the Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway - Sample Images

Lavatory Corridor Third No. 82 to Diagram 13/3160, as modified by Melton Constable to have two end vestibules in place of lavatories for the conductor-guard sets. In 1939, No. 82 has been shunted away from the rest of its set. This is the corridor side of the vehicle with all but two of the doors sealed. The nearest compartment is marked “LADIES” in blue in the glass toplight. The torpedo vents have been removed.H.C.Casserley

Part of the breakdown train at Melton in 1937, with Tool Van No. 12 coupled to Packing Van No. 53, an ex-E&MR unventilated box van, on the breakdown siding leading off the turntable. The missing component is Crane No. 491, which would be too long to fit onto this short siding. It is assumed that Packing Van No. 51 at Yarmouth was similar. H.C.Casserley, copyright M&GN Circle