| | Standard locomotives emerged from Crewe Works. Designed by R. A. Riddles, this locomotive, No 70000 later named Britannia, was the first of 66 Pacific locomotives to be constructed as part of the programme. These consisted of 55 'Britannias', 10 ‘Clans' and the solitary No 71000 Duke of Gloucester. The last-named was produced as a one-off to replace the Stanier Pacific destroyed as a result of the Harrow & Wealdstone accident of 1952. As a result of the Modernisation Plan of 1955, the BR Standard Pacifics were destined to have relatively short careers, with many of the locomotives seeing barely a decade of service before withdrawals commenced in the early 1960s. The ‘Britannia' class in particular was to prove successful as a mixed traffic design, seeing operation over much of the BR network. As with the earlier volumes, it has detailed 4mm scale drawings along with a comprehensive selection of both colour and mono photographs highlighting liveries and detailed differences between class members. Contents
- Introduction
- Design
- Construction
- Liveries & Names
- In Service
- The Clans
- Preservation
- Drawings
Continent: Europe
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