Blake, W.A. — London Midland steam in action
D. Bradford Barton, 1972 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 96 pages. Text in English. Clean, tight and fresh copy. The London Midland region was the largest of the six into which the newly nationalised British railways system was divided, with a territory extending from the Thames and the Severn to the Solway Firth. Well over six thousand steam engines of the LMS and pre grouping origins worked from more than a hundred depots, yet twenty years later not one was still in service, thanks to modernisation and the depredations of the Beeching Plan .