Passenger Train Operation for the Railway Modeller 1st (first) Edition by Essery, R. J. published by Ian Allan Publishing

by R.J. Essery

Information on the way the British railway system was operated is not that widely available. This book, which follows on from the author's first more general title on the subject, describes in depth the nature of passenger train operation on Britain's railways. Individual chapters examine the development of passenger trains, working practices and train formations, non-passenger coaching stock which ran on passenger trains, locomotive types developed specifically for passenger services and station design. Its appeal is mainly to the modeller who wants to run his layout in a way similar to the prototype but it also contains much useful information on this often neglected aspect of railway activity, which will appeal to a much wider audience.

Genres: Railways

Unknown Binding

First published August 1, 2006

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book does not live up to the title unfortunately. If you are a modeller with a good understanding of passenger train operation you won't learn much here. If you have no real knowledge of historical railway passenger train operation then this is a good general book.
if you are a railway modeller seeking to run your period railway in a prototypical manner this book simply fails to deliver. Passenger Train Operation in General Terms would be a better title. Practical, realistic passenger train operation is simply not explained at the basic, carriage by carriage level. If historical passenger trains operated like modern day ones that would be no problem - but they didn't.