One of the distinctive features which characterised the Great Western Railway was the cast-iron nameplates the Company fitted to its signal boxes and ground frames. Now highly prized by collectors, the design was unique to the G.W.R. and produced continually from 1891 to 1947.
The author, a founder member of the Kidderminster Railway Museum, has spent many years carrying out research into this little-known aspect of the Railway's infrastructure. The result is a history which not only details the way these plates were made and fitted, and the changes to the basic patterns which took place over the years, but also brings to life some of the characters who were employed at Reading Signal Works and created the design.
An essential guide to the researcher, the book concludes with a full listing of all the plates known to have been ordered ? more than 4,500 in total.

ISBN 0 9534775 3 3. 184 pages. Hard back with full colour dustwrapper 

£19.95