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QUARRY HUNSLETS OF NORTH WALES
	*The Great `Little` Survivors* *1st Edition* - *August 2001* *by Cliff Thomas* ISBN 0853615756 Book Hardback 256 Pages 200 B&W Photographs Publisher: Oakwood Press
The 0-4-0 saddle tanks produced by the Hunslet Engine Co. of Leeds, forever associated with the quarries of North Wales, have proven to be remarkable survivors. Much loved and admired, almost all entered preservation and examples work on heritage railways the length and breadth of the country. For the first time, these locomotives have been brought together in a single volume, regardless of the quarry where they spent their working lives. The history of each locomotive is detailed, along with a description of the groups into which they fall. The reader will discover that these locomotives may appear similar, but are far from identical. The criteria for inclusion has been drawn as being narrow gauge, built as an 0-4-0ST by Hunslet and worked for a North Wales quarry. This includes locomotives built for the granite industry as well as slate. The definition has also allowed the inclusion of Penrhyn “main line” locomotives. Notes are included to give a flavour of the past, based on interviews with ex-quarry loco drivers, along with extracts from maintenance logs. The narrative brings the story right up to date - even the project to re-create one of the very few of these locomorives not to survive intact is detailed. Some myths, legends and mysteries surrounding some of the locomotives are explored to provide as comprehensive a record as possible. The lavish collection of archive photographs, including rare images from the Gwynedd Archive service and the work of the late Ivo Peters, is supplemented by comprehensive pictorial coverage in preservation by the author. Modellers will delight in the section which describes and illustrates the component parts of these locomotives, along with photographs of semi-dismantled examples undergoing overhaul.
Contents: Introduction Background Anatomy of a Hunslet Group 1 - Precursors and One-Off Locomotives Group 2 – Dinorwic “Alice” Class Group 3 - Early Port Dinorwic Type Group 4 - Relatives to “Alice” Class Group 5 - Later Port Dinorwic Type Group 6 – Dinorwic “Tramroad” or “Mills” Class Working Days I - The Drivers Penrhyn Quarry Locomotives Working Days II - Maintaining the Engines Group 7 - Penrhyn “Small Quarry” Class Group 8 - Penrhyn “Port” Class Group 9 - Penrhyn “Large Quarry” Locomotives Group 10 - The Large Engines Group 11 - Granite Quarry Locomotives Where They Work Now Appendices References and Further Reading Author`s Note and Acknowledgements

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