"Now we have the second part of the history of this unloved class, and rarely has the reviewer seen so much detail included on every conceivable aspect of the careers of every example of this infamous class, whose arrival to eliminate steam in the West Country coincided with the loss of the local duties the were intended for.

The author has created quite a following by writing about failed early BR diesel classes and this is another important work. It is a combination of extensive personal research, with valuable material from the notebooks and cameras from those who stayed around after the end of BR steam. We all wonder what the next subject will be."

Steam World - October 2024

"Well I have just received a copy of this new Volume 2 and I must confess that I haven't seen this level of detail in any other diesel & electric publication............and I have quite a few! This series just gets better and better! The author is obviously very methodical in his approach and the level of research to obtain the finite detail that is portrayed go's beyond what has been previously published. Over the last sixty years I thought I knew quite a lot about BR diesels...........but obviously I still have a lot to learn and can do so quite easily with the added style and format of this publication.

Pen & Sword seem to have chosen a very relaxed style of format which allows for good photographic illustration within the text...whoever thought there would be two volumes for a class of 58 'unloved' diesel hydraulics."

RMWeb Forum by 'Brush Veteran' (Grahame Wareham)