Colin Boocock

Colin Boocock is a life-long railway enthusiast and experienced railway engineer. As a teenager he devoured reports about the new British Railways standard locomotives as each class was introduced. As an engineering apprentice he watched and listened as the BR standard 4 2-6-0s and 2-6-4Ts began to arrive in Eastleigh Locomotive Works for their first overhauls. The author is well placed to chronicle these locomotives and to balance how good they were with their unusually short working lives.

Colin Boocock is a life-long railway enthusiast and experienced railway engineer. As a teenager he devoured reports about the new British Railways standard locomotives as each class was introduced. As an engineering apprentice he watched and listened as the BR standard 4 2-6-0s and 2-6-4Ts began to arrive in Eastleigh Locomotive Works for their first overhauls. The author is well placed to chronicle these locomotives and to balance how good they were with their unusually short working lives. See less