{"product_id":"lms-album-number-3-9780711004665","title":"LMS Album Number 3","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this third LMS Album the author has selected together nearly 200 photographs depicting the locomotives built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway, largest of the four main line companies created by the grouping of Britain's railways in 1923, thus completing the pictorial story of LMS motive power commenced in LMS Album No. 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs, by leading pre-war photographers including F. R. Hebron, T. G. Hepburn and E. R. Wethersett, illustrate all the various classes introduced by the LMS with the exception of one or two small classes of shunting engine, the high-pressure loco Fury and miscellany of diesel shunters. The Midland designs perpetuated by Sir Henry Fowler are seen in their droves as well a magnificent parallel boiler \"Royal  Scot\" 4-6-0s, the lengthy Beyer-Garratt freight engines and the suburban tanks. There are several views of Stanier's streamlined Coronation\" Pacifics painted in their blue and silver livery adopted in 1937 for the \"Coronation Scot\" train - the first and only departure from the former Midland crimson lake livery used for all express locomotives until wartime conditions forced the us! plain black for all engines that needed repainting.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther features of the LMS scene are not overlooked for there is a small selection of photographs devoted to freight and passenger rolling stock, to signals, road vehicles, stations and major traffic centres. Even some of the men who helped run this vast railway are not forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHardback with dust jacket, 18x24cm, 128 pages, black \u0026amp; white photographs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition: Good\/Very Good\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ian Allan","offers":[{"title":"Secondhand (285)","offer_id":41010142642285,"sku":"9780711004665","price":7.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1910\/7111\/files\/9780711004665.jpg?v=1706012713","url":"https:\/\/rail-books.co.uk\/products\/lms-album-number-3-9780711004665","provider":"Rail Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}