NIGEL Gresley’s D49‘Shire’and‘Hunt’4-4-0s formed a class denied to southern trainspotters, but two publications this year have at least given a pictorial insight into what they missed, writes Geoff Courtney.
The first was by Totem Publishing and was reviewed in these pages on its release in the summer, and the second is Great Northern Books’ newly launched take on these popular locomotives, which were specifically designed for secondary express passenger work in the North East and Scotland.
Class leader No. 234 Yorkshire entered service in October 1927 and
