"This volume is highly recommended, especially for GWR/Western Region/steam enthusiasts."

Bradford Railway Circle

Reviewed alongside Worcester Locomotive Shed

These two books (and indeed the author’s complementary volume on Gloucester’s sheds) are highly recommended and provide a valuable insight into how steam locomotive workings in each area were organised. It should be added that both books are absolute bargains at £25 in this day and age!

West Somerset Railway Association

Reviewed alongside Gloucester Locomotive Sheds and Worcester Locomotive Shed

All in all, the three volumes are an outstanding album of photographs and historical memories which deserve a place on every Great Western Railway enthusiast's shelf.

6024 Preservation Society

An invaluable record of the life and times of the final years of a most interesting former GWR Locomotive depot and the men and locomotives found theerabouts.

Friends of Swindon Railway Museum

Pen & Sword are rapidly establishing themselves as one of the leading publishers of high quality railway books and this interesting volume is an excellent example. Steve Bartlett is to be congratulated on producing a most readable and authoritative account of a place he obviously remembers with great affection. In doing so he presents us with a valuable picture of life at a typical locomotive depot at the end of the steam era.

Friends of the National Railway Museum

This book succeeds as a historical record, an outstanding album of photographs and a personal tribute to the men, machines and services of Hereford shed.

Great Western Society

As a reference book, this is going to be hard to beat. I would say this could easily become the definitive work on Hereford, not only on the shed and it's workings, but on the whole region within a 60 mile radius of the MPD.

Steve Bartlett has put his heart and soul into illustrating the way Hereford played such a pivotal role in the lives of railwaymen. All the characters, stories and incidents are a true reflection of what life was like from the mid '50s through to closure in the mid '60s and are sourced from staff and records alike.

Manchester Locomotive Society

The author spent over 40 years working in railway operations, timetable and resource planning and does a fine job of lifting the lid on an interesting location and the railways of the surrounding district at this time.

Steam Days, January 2018 - reviewed by Roger Smith

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Hereford Times

Steve Bartlett is a fourth generation railwayman. In "Hereford Locomotive Shed: Engines and Train Workings" he has published the first in a series of in-depth studies to look closely at the changing engine allocations and operational responsibilities of motive power depots during the latter days of steam. In Herefords case this was a varied mixture of main line passenger, freight trip working, branch line passenger, station pilot duties and yard shunting. Unusually, the latter remained a steam preserve until months before depot closure in November 1964\. Not forgotten are the depots small sub-sheds, which had varying responsibilities over the years, as the district boundaries changed at Ledbury, Leominster, Ross-on-Wye and Craven Arms. Their very different duties were inevitably a reflection of a bygone age and an all too rapidly changing future. Profusely illustrated with black-and-white period photography, "Hereford Locomotive Shed" is an exceptionally informative and well written study and one that will prove to be a critically important and core addition to personal, community, and academic library Railroading History reference collections in general, and Hereford locomotive supplemental studies reading lists in particular.

Midwest Book Review

For anyone who knew Hereford shed this will be a fascinating book, with much detail not to be found elsewhere.

Welsh Railways Research Circle No. 153