Willie Brayshaw Yeadon was a British

United Kingdom

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 railway historian known for his magnum opus

Masterpiece

Masterpiece in modern usage refers to a creation that has been given much critical praise, especially one that is considered the greatest work of a person's career or to a work of outstanding creativity, skill or workmanship....

, Yeadon's Register of LNER Locomotives which covers every class of locomotive inherited and built by the London and North Eastern Railway

London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway was the second-largest of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain...

, including those engines built to LNER designs by British Railways (such as the 49 LNER Peppercorn Class A1

LNER Peppercorn Class A1

The London and North Eastern Railway Peppercorn Class A1 is a type of express passenger steam locomotive. Forty-nine original Peppercorn Class A1s were built to the design of Arthur Peppercorn during the early British Railways era, but all were scrapped with the discontinuation of steam,...

 pacifics). There have been 50 books in the series, though only 46 volumes as some volumes are in two parts. He was also the author of a pair of books on London and North Western Railway

London and North Western Railway

The London and North Western Railway was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922. It was created by the merger of three companies – the Grand Junction Railway, the London and Birmingham Railway and the Manchester and Birmingham Railway...

(LNWR) tender engines; a third volume on LNWR tank engines was promised but unfortunately never materialised.

Yeadon's Register

• Vol. 1: Gresley's A1, A3 Classes. Irwell Press, 1990
• Vol. 2: Gresley A4 and W1 Classes. Irwell Press, 1990
• Vol. 3: Raven, Thompson and Peppercorn Pacifics. Irwell Press, 1991
• Vol. 4. Gresley V2 and V4 classes. Irwell Press, 1992.
• Vol. 5: Gresley B17 and Thompson B2 Classes. Irwell Press, 1993.
• Vol. 6: Thompson B1 Class. Irwell Press, 1994.
• Vol. 7: B12 class. Irwell Press. 1994.
• Vol. 8: Gresley K3 and K4 Classes. Challenger Publications, 1995.
• Vol. 9: Gresley 8-Coupled Engines,classes O1, O2, P1, P2 and U1. Challenger Publications, 1995.
• Vol. 10: Gresley D49 and J38 classes. Challenger, 1996.
• Vol. 11: Gresley J39 class. Challenger, 1996
• Vol. 12: Railcars and Sentinel shunters. Challenger, 1996.
• Vol. 13: Class C1, C2, C4 and C5 Atlantics. Challenger, 1998.
• Vol. 14: Class D13, D14, D15 and D16, the Great Eastern 4-4-0s. Challenger, 1999
• Vol. 15: Class J94, O6, and O7 the engines from the years of expediency. Challenger, 1999
• Vol. 16: Class L1, V1/V3: Gresley and Thompson six-coupled tanks. Booklaw/Railbus, 2000
• Vol. 17: Class B13, B14, B15 and B16: the North Eastern 4-6-0s. Booklaw/Railbus, 2000
• Vol. 18: Gresley K1 and K2, Thompson K1/1 and Peppercorn K1. Booklaw/Railbus, 2000
• Vol. 19: Class D1, D2, D3 and D4, and the M&GN 4-4-0s. Booklaw / Railbus, 2001
• Vol. 20: Class Q1, Q2, Q3 & Q4, & The Q1 Tank
• Vol. 21: Class A5 to A8, H1, H2, L1(L3), L2, M1 and M2 tank engines. Booklaw/Railbus, 2001
• Vol. 22: Class B1 (B18), B2 (B19), and B3 to B9: the Great Central 4-6-0s. Booklaw/Railbus, 2001
• Vol. 23: Classes Q5, Q6, Q7 and Q10: the North Eastern 0-8-0s. Booklaw/Railbus, 2002
• Vol. 24A: Class O4, Parts 1 to 5. Booklaw/Railbus, 2002
• Vol. 24B: Class O4/6, O4/7, O4/8, O5 and Thompson O1. Booklaw/Railbus, 2002
• Vol. 25: Class N1 & N2 Tank Engines
• Vol. 26: Class J31 to J37
• Vol. 27: Class N7
• Vol. 28: Class R1, S1, T1 & WM & CQ 0-8-0T
• Vol. 29: Class D5, D6, D7, D8, D9, D10, D11 & D12
• Vol. 30: Class E1, E2, GCR 12A, E4, E5, NER 901, NER 1440, E7 & E8
• Vol. 31: Class C6, C7, C8, C9. North Eastern Atlantics
• Vol. 32: Class X1-X4, Y2, Y4-Y10, Z4 & Z5
• Vol. 33: Class C12, C13, C14 & C17
• Vol. 34: Class D17-D24
• Vol. 35: Class J14 & J15
• Vol. 36: Class F1, F2, G1, G2, G3, G4, G7-G10
• Vol. 37A: Class J1, J2, J3 & J4
• Vol. 37B: Class J5, J6, J7, J40 & J41
• Vol. 38: Class F8, G5 & G6
• Vol. 39: Class F3, F4, F5, F6, F7 & F9
• Vol. 40: Class C10, C11, C15, C16 & D11/2
• Vol. 41: Class J16, J17, J18, J19, J20
• Vol. 42A: Class D25, D26, D27, D28, D29 & D30
• Vol. 42B: Class D31, D32, D33, D34, D35 & D36
• Vol. 43A: Class J71 & J72
• Vol. 43B: Class J73-J80 & NER `44`
• Vol. 44: Classes D38, D39, D40, D41, D42, D43, D44, D45, D46, D47 & D48
• Vol. 45: Classes J8. J9, J10, J11, J12, J13
• Vol. 46: Classes J52, J53, J54, J55, J56, J57 & GNR 19 - The Stirling Great Northern 0-6-0 Tank Engines

Other LNER

• LNER locomotive allocations: 1947: the last day (Irwell Press, 1989)
• LNER locomotive allocations: the First Day, 1923 (Challenger Publications, 1996)

LNWR

• A compendium of LNWR locomotives
  • Part 1: Passenger Tender Engines 1912-1949
  • Part 2: Goods Tender Engines 1912-1964

Hull

• Illustrated history of Hull's railways, with M Nicholson (Irwell Press, 1993),
• More Illustrated History of the Railways of Hull (Challenger Publications, 1995).

External links

• http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/paragon/1997/yeadon.html
• http://www.steamindex.com/library/yeadon.htm