Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives: From Design to Destruction
    Unavailable
    The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives: From Design to Destruction
    Unavailable
    The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives: From Design to Destruction
    Ebook479 pages3 hours

    The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives: From Design to Destruction

    By Anthony P. Sayer

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this ebook

    This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known collectively as the “Co-Bo’s” due to their unusual wheel arrangement. Twenty locomotives were constructed during the late-1950s for use on the London Midland Region of British Railways.

    The fleet was fraught with difficulties from the start, most notably due to problems with their Crossley engines, this necessitating the need for extensive rehabilitation work during the early-1960s. Matters barely improved and the option to completely re-engine the locomotives with English Electric units was debated at length, but a downturn in traffic levels ultimately resulted in their demise by the end of 1968 prior to any further major rebuilding work being carried out.

    Significant quantities of new archive and personal sighting information, supported by over 180 photographs and diagrams, have been brought together to allow dramatic new insights into this enigmatic class of locomotives, including the whole debate surrounding potential re-engining, their works histories, the extended periods in storage, together with in-depth reviews of the various detail differences and liveries.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPen and Sword Transport
    Release dateJun 30, 2020
    ISBN9781526742827
    Unavailable
    The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives: From Design to Destruction
    Author

    Anthony P. Sayer

    Anthony Sayer is a life long railway enthusiast who has been taking pictures since the 1960. He has an interest in the history of early diesels and electric locomotives.Anthony lives in the north east of England and is now retired from the steel industry which was his career for over thirty years.

    Read more from Anthony P. Sayer

    Related to The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives

    Related ebooks

    European History For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Reviews

      Oct 3, 2022

      Reviews
      4 min read

    • Article

      The RCTS: Then And Now

      Feb 4, 2019

      The Railway Observer has evolved over the years as an important source of reference to amateur and professional authors. The format was set in the pre-1939 issues, where pages were set aside for each of the‘Big Four’to outline new builds, engines

      2 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Forum

      Jul 15, 2021

      Articles appearing in Backtrack have the wonderful effect of reviving long-lost memories of past rail travel – the article on ‘Summer Holidays to the Coast’ being a case in point. My grandchildren could not believe me when I told them the following t

      3 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Forum

      Oct 20, 2022

      Letters intended for publication should ideally add extra detail to our articles (or offer corrections of course!) and not be too long, consistent with the detail they offer. As always, we are sorry that space and time prevent us from printing them a

      11 min read

    • Article

      LETTERS & REVIEWS

      Jun 15, 2021

      LETTERS & REVIEWS
      3 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Sep 5, 2022

      Chasing the final steam trains in BR’s Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches By Keith Widdowson THIS is an evocative account of the author’s extensive travels behind steam locomotives during the final years of steam operations from 1964 onwar

      3 min read

    • Article

      Readers’Forum

      Feb 17, 2022

      On p655 of the December issue there is a picture of a GWR ‘45XX’ at Tavistock. Interestingly, the ex-LMS brake coach behind the engine has a Scottish (SC) number prefix. How such a coach got to the Tavistock branch could be a story in itself. Jim Par

      4 min read

    • Article

      Readers’Forum

      Feb 17, 2022

      On p655 of the December issue there is a picture of a GWR ‘45XX’ at Tavistock. Interestingly, the ex-LMS brake coach behind the engine has a Scottish (SC) number prefix. How such a coach got to the Tavistock branch could be a story in itself. Jim Par

      4 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Jul 3, 2023

      By Charles Loft WITHOUT a doubt, this book succeeds in its aim of giving perspective regarding how Governments before and during the Beeching era, and those who fought some of the individual closures, perceived the railways in relation to other trans

      4 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Forum

      Mar 16, 2023

      I read with interest your article on the North British Atlantics (February), made particularly interesting by the colourised photographs supporting the text. These are locomotives that have always intrigued me, since I first read about them, as they

      8 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Jan 5, 2021

      HERE is a superb piece of railway history. Michael Andrew's research into the origins and life of the Furness Railway are the core of this book. His original study paper was the 2003 Cumbrian Railways Association publication The Furness Railway in an

      4 min read

    • Article

      Platform

      Dec 10, 2018

      OVER the past few years the Great Western Society has made great strides to close the missing gaps with the new build 4-6-0 Grange, 4-6-0 Saint and the 4-6-0 County and of course the 2-8-0 Night Owl. Now the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway has j

      3 min read

    • Article

      Express Mailbag

      Aug 16, 2022

      Express Mailbag
      6 min read

    • Article

      Off The Shelf

      Jun 25, 2018

      By Irene Hawkes (hardback, Crecy, 160pp, £30, ISBN 978 0 86093 674 9). THE Metropolitan Railway 150 celebrations brought the history of the world’s first underground system to life for a new generation, and set the stage for steam specials to run ov

      6 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      Apr 4, 2022

      FOLLOWING on from his insider’s book about Network Rail test trains, former NR engineer Andrew Royle has turned his attention to celebrating the five decades of HST operation since they were introduced in the mid-1970s. Despite being a dedicated inte

      4 min read

    • Article

      BookReviews

      Dec 8, 2022

      Excellent Very Good Good Fair Poor by John Jennison. Published by the Railway Correspondence & Travel Society. ISBN 978-0-99349808-7-3. 258pp hardback. £29.50. This is the latest production in the RCTS’s ‘Locomotives of the LMS Series’ and was there

      4 min read

    • Article

      Off The Shelf

      Feb 15, 2022

      By Stephen D Phillips (hardback, Vale of Rheidol Railway, www.rheidolrailway.co.uk, 462pp, £70, ISBN 9781800683730). IN HERITAGE RAILWAY’S 23 years, we have never seen a volume devoted to the history of one line produced to the mind-blowing extent of

      9 min read

    • Article

      Platform

      Apr 13, 2021

      Platform
      10 min read

    • Article

      Letters

      Oct 15, 2018

      IN the interests of historical accuracy, I would like to offer the following amendments to a couple of captions in recent supplements sent out with Rail Express. In the ‘Blue & Grey Years’ (October issue), I thought the northbound ‘Deltic’ with the 0

      4 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Platform

      Oct 3, 2022

      I REFER to your article by Industry Update on page 12 of the September issue, and in particular the final paragraphs about digital technology and ticket office closures, both of which we and the disability movement are fighting tooth and nail. Disabi

      6 min read

    • Article

      BookReviews

      Feb 17, 2022

      |★★★★★ Excellent|★★★★Very Good|★★★ Good|★★ Fair|★ Poor| by Kevin Robertson. Published by Crecy Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-191080-9853. 304 pp, £30.00 hardback This monumental work chronicles in remarkable detail the evolution, design, construction and

      6 min read

    • Article

      BookReviews

      Feb 17, 2022

      |★★★★★ Excellent|★★★★Very Good|★★★ Good|★★ Fair|★ Poor| by Kevin Robertson. Published by Crecy Publishing Ltd., ISBN 978-191080-9853. 304 pp, £30.00 hardback This monumental work chronicles in remarkable detail the evolution, design, construction and

      6 min read

    • Article

      Readers’ Platform

      Apr 4, 2022

      Readers’ Platform
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Bold Step

      Apr 16, 2019

      THE Science Museum Group has issued its long-awaited review of vehicles in the National Collection, most notably at the National Railway Museum in York, setting out which locos and units will be kept for display or operation (see page 13). The big di

      1 min read

    • Article

      Mailbag

      Mar 12, 2019

      Mailbag
      6 min read

    • Article

      Reviews

      May 31, 2021

      THIS is a superbly varied collection of monochrome photographs reflecting Stuart Warr’s personal view of our rail system and the huge changes that have taken place in the post-Beeching era of our railways. The book is arranged thematically and covers

      3 min read

    • Article

      Christmas Gift Guide

      Nov 30, 2020

      AUTHOR Mike Ball openly admits his foray into the rail atlas market in the 1980s was “to help enthusiasts make sense of the mysterious and confusing geography of Europe’s dense railway network”, and over the years produced a series of regional of com

      16 min read

    • Article

      Off The Shelf

      Apr 7, 2020

      By John Evans (softback, Amberley Publishing, 96pp, £14.99, ISBN 9781 4456 95570) WAS Dr Beeching the villain of popular perception who destroyed so much of our beloved railway network, or a hero who saved it? That is a question that will be asked i

      6 min read

    Reviews for The Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2 Co-Bo Diesel-Electric Locomotives

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words