Before Ian Allan ABCs

[strang steel]

I am adding some 1940 sightings to my trainspotting website, and I wondered if there are any published lists of locomotive allocations during the early WW2 years?

I realise this would probably have been classified or sensitive information in those years, and people were limited in their travel "is your journey really necessary?", but the companies must have had shed allocation records and I wondered if anyone had collated them in the post war years?

I know Ian Allan started in 1942, but his first ABCs were Southern Railway and I don't know if they had shed allocations, or were just lists of locomotives.

[WTTReprinter]

The Railway Observer (still available from the RCTS) carried stock books most years and each month gave any allocation changes.
I have large collection that I bought as DVDs from the RCTS for numerous years from 1932-1945 and the early 50's
Very useful.
Brian

[strang steel]

Thanks Brian. I will have a look on the RCTS website.