LOCOMOTIVES OF THE GREAT SOUTHERN & WESTERN RAILWAY
by Jeremy Clements, Michael McMahon and Alan O’Rourke
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THE Great Southern & Western Railway was Ireland’s largest pre-1925 railway company, covering most of the southern half of Ireland, and from 1901 also incorporating the long route north of Limerick to Sligo.
The three authors are well known – the first two for their previous work on the locomotives of the Great Southern Railways (1925-45), and the latter for his comprehensive history of the North Kerry line. As would be expected, given the previous works of all three, this work promised to leave absolutely no stone unturned in terms of research, attention to detail, even though not all relevant records have survived, and thus given the passage of time, some small gaps are inevitable in the information covered.