Blue Pullman
Acknowledgements
Sources used in compiling this Blue Pullman story: Railway Observer, The Blue Pullman Yahoo Group (in particular contributions by Robert Carroll), Railway Gazette, Trains Illustrated and Railway Magazine.
Further Reading
There have been several detailed publications on the sets, many are now out of print but copies turn up occasionally.
Modern Railways Pictorial Profile: 10 The 'Blue Pullmans'
Ian Allan
ISBN
Modern Railways Pictorial Profile was an occasional Ian Allan magazine devoted to certain subjects, and issue 10 was about the Blue Pullmans.
Blue Pullman
Kevin Robertson
Kestrel Railway Books
ISBN 0954485963
How and why the sets came about, their construction, testing and introduction, are all covered in this detailed work, most of the information and many of the photographs appearing in print for the first time. Accompanied throughout by facts, figures and anecdotes, "Blue Pullman" will be of interest to anyone with an interest in the BR Modernisation Plan, the London Midland and Western Regions in the 1960s, and the story of the Blue Pullmans itself. 168 pages, hardback, with 180 illustrations, including colour and black and white photographs and detailed plans for the modeller. Released in June 2006.
Modern Locomotives Illustrated No.176 Blue Pullman Stock & The APT fleets
Key Publishing
ISBN
The April - May 2009 edition of this magazine has 32 well illustrated (many in colour) pages about the vehicles.
Blue Pullman Supplement
Kevin Robertson
Noodle Books
ISBN 1906419248
An 80 page expansion to the author's already heavily detailed hardback book. Released in September 2009.
Blue Pullman Pictorial
Kevin Robertson
Noodle Books
ISBN 1909328065
Another volume that expands Kevin's previous Blue Pullman volumes. Released in November 2012.
The Blue Pullman Story - Fully Revised and Unabridged
Kevin Robertson and Mike Smith
Noodle Books
ISBN 9780860936886
An updated version of the 2005 book with new material.
Details about the British Transport Film "Blue Pullman" on the cinematographer David Watkin's site.
The British Film Institute also has a page on "Let's Go to Birmingham"
British Pathe has a news clip about the trains "First Diesel Pullman", also on youtube. At the end of a 1961 colour film "Electronic Railway" and more in the outakes from this.