RAILWAYS IN BRITAIN.

£4,250 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Album of original photographs compiled by Richard Maunsell, chief engineer for the London and South Western Railway. A splendid collection, including many images of gleaming locomotives but also encompassing railway safety and the large railway works needed to manufacture the workhorses of industrialization and modernization.Maunsell (1868-1944) numbers among the foremost British locomotive designers of the early 20th century. Born in Ireland, he apprenticed at the Dublin works of the Great Southern & Western Railway and, following spells working for the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway and the East India Railway, became the GSWR's locomotive superintendent. After the First World War, he worked for the South Eastern & Chatham Railway and designed engines for the LSWR - his 1920 ownership inscription on the front free endpaper gives his position as "chief designer" - and, following LSWR's amalgmation into the newly formed Southern Railway in 1923, he served as Southern's first chief mechanical engineer. Mansell's famous designs include the Schools- and Nelson-class locos.The majority of the engines pictured were built for the LSWR and other British firms from the tail end of the 19th century to the 1910s. They include, among others, Dugald Drummond's F9 inspection engine, Number 3373 Atbara (a four-coupled express), and LSWR Number 773, decorated to mark Joseph Chamberlain's return from his post-Boer War tour of South Africa. Photographs of accidents and engines derailed and dam

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