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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
North British Hotel

Latest Backtrack: October 2019

Stanhope & Tyne engines

Latest Archive (No. 103)

Railway World
Issue for July 1964 urgently needed

Last Great Western Railway J.

Review of British Transport Treasures
Latest releases:
Man behind the Treasures (Stuart Rankin)
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 MiscellanyŁ3.95
Further information
Centenary in retrospect by Randall
Further information
Programme of ceremonies Ł2.95
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] Ł3.25p
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]

Southern Way No. 13

Locomotive Magazine project

F. Moore: artist
John Kitching's Game Cocks

Locomotive Magazine on CD ROM

Railways Archive
very useful site for source documents especially official accident reports

Modellers Backtrack
Bob Farmer's Index

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

Books about locomotives

Author index

Journals (magazines) indexed

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
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

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

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)
Cloud anthology
Hugh Le Fleming: artist
Nigel Digby: locomotive liveries

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)

Reference books

Bookshops
publishers?

Frank Jones's diaries updated

Greaves index of private owner wagons
EARLY MAIN LINE conference Proceedings

Architects in new location

Engine drivers

Junior Institution of Engineers
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Last Railway Archive (No. 50)

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