Looking for a copy of ''Locomotives of the GSR'' or other books containing drawings and information of GSR-CIE era locomotives

[Jamie Davis]

Hello all. I have been browsing online for books or other media containing information, photos and most importantly drawings of locomotives (Steam and Diesel) from the later GSR and CIE eras. The narrow gauge and standard gauge both greatly interest me, and I would love to source some drawings or diagrams of locomotives from these eras and model them. The book tilted ''Locomotives of the GSR'' has evaded me for awhile, being both out of stock everywhere I look, and being priced ridiculously high in others. Up to what years do the locomotives shown in the book go? The later and final years of steam would interest me most. If anyone knows where I could find one of these books (For a reasonable price!!!) or another with similar contents, I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks again!

[Mol_PMB]

The GSR locos book is a large tome and was originally quite expensive, so I'm not sure whether either of these come within your definition of a 'reasonable' price?

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781906578268/Locomotives-GSR-Clements-Jeremy-McMahon-1906578265/plp

I only have the GSWR volume which is about A4 size, over an inch think and has about 300 pages. It is full of technical detail, drawings and photos.

 

[Jamie Davis]

21 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

The GSR locos book is a large tome and was originally quite expensive, so I'm not sure whether either of these come within your definition of a 'reasonable' price?

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781906578268/Locomotives-GSR-Clements-Jeremy-McMahon-1906578265/plp

I only have the GSWR volume which is about A4 size, over an inch think and has about 300 pages. It is full of technical detail, drawings and photos.

 

Those prices seem a hell of a lot better than what I've just seen. Used copy of the book asking for 292 euro!! Thanks for that one, I'll take a look. I'll still take a second hand one if anyone is willing to part with their copy.

 

[Galteemore]

38 minutes ago, Mol_PMB said:

The GSR locos book is a large tome and was originally quite expensive, so I'm not sure whether either of these come within your definition of a 'reasonable' price?

https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9781906578268/Locomotives-GSR-Clements-Jeremy-McMahon-1906578265/plp

I only have the GSWR volume which is about A4 size, over an inch think and has about 300 pages. It is full of technical detail, drawings and photos.

 

The GSR book has fewer drawings, which were published through New Irish Lines. Alan ORourke may be able to advise via their website 

 

[Mike 84C]

I believe New Irish Lines Is now all digitised and is/was free to browse, I recall Alan sent out those drawings as photocopies , over several years , some of the copies were a bit iffy( mine were) and not all were scaled. If I'm wrong please please correct me , I think the problem was the distortion that photocopiers can cause.

 But a shout of thanks to Alan for producing the information.

[Mayner]

The loco drawings published with New Irish Lines between 2014 and 2016 are in diagram form and exclude the narrow gauge. The drawings were intended to be a companion volume to GSR Locomotives but were eventually released with NIL.  Diagrams include limited information generally showing one side and front end of a locomotive, ex-GSWR diagrams exclude an end view, several GSR diagrams in outline form only.

The 7mm Narrow Gauge Association published a book of Irish Narrow Gauge Drawings which includes a variety of steam locos and petrol/diesel railcars https://7mmnga.org.uk/sales/publications/publication_details.php?ref=NLE06. The narrow gauge drawings were prepared for modelling purposes and are quite detailed including plan and sectional views.

[leslie10646]

Or, you can have a copy of the GSR Loco book from The Syndicate (me!) at the original price of £35 (€40), delivered at Bangor this weekend. The money goes to the IRRS as the book was a donation.

Let me know, as I'm leaving home at lunchtime on Thursday.

Thanks

Leslie