Chapters: List of Gwr 7800 Class Locomotives, Gwr 7800 Class 7802 Bradley Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7808 Cookham Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7820 Dinmore Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7821 Ditcheat Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7822 Foxcote Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7812 Erlestoke Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7819 Hinton Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7828 Odney Manor, Gwr 7800 Class 7827 Lydham Manor. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Great Western Railway (GWR) 7800 Class or Manor Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. They were designed as a lighter version of the GWR Grange Class, giving them a wider Route Availability. Like the 'Granges', the 'Manors' used parts from the GWR 4300 Class Moguls but just on the first batch of twenty. Twenty were built between 1938 and 1939, with British Railways adding a further 10 in 1950. Nine are preserved. The first of the Manors No.7800 Torquay Manor entered traffic in January 1938 and by February 1939 20 were in service. They used parts from scrapped GWR 4300 Class moguls - these included the driving wheels and motion components along with the tenders. More were planned but the outbreak of war forced the GWR to cancel the order for a further 20. The official GWR line on the class was that the 7800s were expected to work existing schedules and with existing loadings but with an all round increase in efficiency. Unfortunately for once the make do and mend policy prevalent at Swindon during the 1930s did not succeed. Unlike the Granges of 1936 where the use of standard components and the re-use of existing ones had produced a masterpiece the initial performance of the Manors was comparatively mediocre. Were it not for the constraints of war there is every reason to expect that Swindon would have recalled the engines for modifications. Instead ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=208168