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Latest update 18 February 2020

Railway mysteries: Trevor Bailey — railway enthusiast & cricketer
Obituary: George W. Carpenter (translator into English of Chapelon book)


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The name indexes (below) are often helpful
Surnames beginning A-D
Surnames beginning E-J
Surnames beginning K-Q
Surnames beginning R-Z

Locomotive class index
A1X to Z1, also 0F to 9F and 68XX
Individual locomotives
Shannon and St Martin, so far
Corporate name index
Includes names like Sharp Stewart

Donations & comments very gratefully received

North British Study Group: latest
Wheatley saddle tanks
Harry Knox

 Latest Backtrack: February 2020

Single-wheel locomotives
road locomotives & carriages
Modellers Backtrack
Bob Farmer's Index


George Behrend (luxury trains and Gone with Regret)
Backtrack threw up this strange omission

Railways Archive: very useful website for accidents

Latest Archive (No. 104)

RHDR 15-inch gauge

Railway World
Issue for July 1964 urgently needed

Last Great Western Railway J.

Authorship
Ahrons
C.J. Allen: stop watch No. 1
Phil Atkins
James Boyd
George & Andrew Dow
Ossie Nock: the Annie S. Swan of railway lit?
Brian Reed
Michael Rutherford
Glancey's Giants of steam
Wm Pett Ridge
Review of British Transport Treasures
Latest releases:
Man behind the Treasures (Stuart Rankin)
Fomney, Hythe & Dymchurch Railway
Sheffield & South Yorkshire Navigation
Young's Timothy Hackworth
See also existing steamindex entry
New including Ahrons Locomotive practice...
2019 additions
Aspects of railway architecture
Architects page
PER RAIL (Great Central presentation to customers)


Stockton & Darlington Miscellany£3.95
Further information
Centenary in retrospect by Randall
Further information
Programme of ceremonies £2.95
Further information
The Construction of the Modern Locomotive, by George Hughes. Assistant in the Chief Mechanical Engineers Dept., Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. E. & F. N. Spon, 1894

The Story of the Royal Scot, London Midland and Scottish Railway, 1933. [ebook]
Further information

The Evolution of the Steam Locomotive, by G. A. Sekon, Railway Publishing Co. 1899 [ebook] £3.25p
Further information

The Manufacture of Locomotives and Other Munitions of War, 1914-1919 – The North British Locomotive Co. Ltd., n.d. but ca. 1920. [ebook]

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY Special Centenary Number, Railway Gazette, 30 August 1935 [ebook]
Jonathan Clay's Locomotive portraits

John Knowles: Steam locomotive resistance

Adrian Tester & the 4F & more Trevithick: update
Beeching, Marples and Serpell
and Harold Wilson (the real villain?)

Locomotive Performance & Efficiency Bulletins (BTC)

Advanced steam website
Very interesting website
Reference books

Bookshops
publishers?


Books about locomotives

Author index

Journals (magazines) indexed

Audio: Peter Handford & Transacord

Cloud anthology
Engine drivers

 Southern Way No. 13

Locomotive Magazine project


F. Moore: artist
John Kitching's Game Cocks
Locomotive Magazine on CD ROM
Biographies: British locomotive designers
David Wardale
Trevithick
George Stephenson & eminent son: Robert
Ramsbottom
   locomotives
Francis (Frank) Webb
   locomotves
Sir Nigel Gresley
 Gresley Pacifics
Sir William Stanier
  Stanier locomotives
Charles Beyer
T.W. Worsdell
   NER locomotives
Matthew Kirtley
   Kirtley locomotives
Junior Institution of Engineers
Still puzzled??"
Not found? Improvements?:
steamindex@steamindex.com [KPJ having problems with BT CONNECT - an inept name! Problems with website please contact:
Webmaster: kevinjonesrunton@gmail.com who unlike RAC, British Telecom, etc he responds to his e-mails

Counter pressure tests on B17 (Robson paper)

Frank Jones's diaries updated

Greaves index of private owner wagons
EARLY MAIN LINE conference Proceedings

E.A. Phillipson... Locomotive design and more"
Andrew Martin joins Canaries


Links to other websites

NISBET or NESBIT?

Locomotive types

LMS Journal

Midland Record
Any hope of borrowing some of later Issues?

Railways South East

British Railway Journal

Southern Way No. 13

Locomotive Magazine project


F. Moore: artist
John Kitching's Game Cocks

Joy Diaries
Joynt's Inchicore
Chronology of locomotive history
Reed's 150 years
John Wilson
ARLE designs
WANTED Information about W. Wells: who was he?
And qualifications of contributors to Backtrack on locomotive design

Irish locomotives
Magazine back issues
online service for single issues

Magazine Exchange
online service for single issues

Robert Humm of Stamford:
excellent secondhand specialist

Branchstow
Specialist bookshop

Rail-Books
New & Second hand Specialist bookshop


St. Andrews

Architects in new location
NEWCOMEN SCAM
Graces Guide
See brief review
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Journal Railway & Canal Historical Society


Institution of Locomotive Engineers papers

Brian Reed
Paul C. Dewhurst (PCD)
Hugh Le Fleming: artist
Nigel Digby: locomotive liveries


NEWS:
George Behrend (luxury trains and Gone with Regret)
Latest Backtrack threw up this strange omission
E.A. Phillipson... Locomotive design and more"
Andrew Martin joins Canaries


Links to other websites

NISBET or NESBIT?

Locomotive types

LMS Journal

Railways South East

British Railway Journal

 Authorship
Ahrons
C.J. Allen: stop watch No. 1
Phil Atkins
James Boyd
George & Andrew Dow
Ossie Nock: the Annie S. Swan of railway lit?
Brian Reed
Michael Rutherford
Glancey's Giants of steam
Wm Pett Ridge

 S.W. Johnson
   Johnson locomotives
Churchward updated
   GWR locomotives
James Holden
   GER locomotives
McIntosh
   Caledonian locomotives
Sir John Aspinall
   L&YR locomotives
Henry Ivatt
   Ivatt locomotives
Richard Maunsell
Maunsell locomotives
O.V.S. Bulleid
Bulleid locomotives
R.A. Riddles
Riddles locomotives

Roland Bond
Cox of LMS/British Rail
Holcroft of GWR and Southern


Inspecting Officers
Engine drivers
Henry Eoghan O'Brien
Verena Holmes: lady loco engineer
Tuplin: eccentric

Publishers
Railway enthusiasts: are they an endangered species?


Six Bells Junction [rail tours]

Carscapes: very good book: further info

Train times (UK)
IMPOSSIBLE to communicate with Railcards
Cheap train tickets

Alternative service at Seat 61
Train Songs

Visual materials

Other images including Bloomer

Mike Field's index to Southern Railway articles

Transport non-connexions in Norfolk?

Industrial Railway Society
Preservation organizations
National Railway Museum
Railway Preservation Society of Ireland
Newcomen Society
LINKS to other WEBSITES
Heritage railways: MANY ERRORS!

Transport Ticket Society

Recent Barnby Moor bridge replacement: digital images taken by Matt Murray: new bridge emerging but wiull Scunthorpe survive
Locomotive design

Last Railway Archive (No. 50)

Hull & Barnsley and broad gauge 4-4-0Ts

Hugh Le Fleming: artist
Jonathan Clay's Locomotive portraits
John Knowles: Steam locomotive resistance
Adrian Tester & the 4F & more
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Trevithick: update
Beeching, Marples and Serpell
and Harold Wilson (the real villain?)

Locomotive Performance & Efficiency Bulletins (BTC)

Kevin Jones


Sean O'Brien's Train Songs published Faber:

Sean O'Brien's view from the train:
we travel through time as well as space on a train Whitaker: father & son: error
PROFESSIONAL MEMOIRS
Counter pressure tests on B17 (Robson paper)

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