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

Barry C. Lane and his Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway locomotives
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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

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North British Study Group: latest
Wheatley saddle tanks
Harry Knox

Latest Backtrack: March 2020

From road unto rail (Macnair)
Thameslink
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. 105)

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?
E.A. Phillipson... Locomotive design and more"
Brian Reed
Reed's 150 years
Michael Rutherford
Glancey's Giants of steam
Wm Pett Ridge
Southern Way No. 13

Locomotive Magazine project

F. Moore: artist
John Kitching's Game Cocks

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 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]
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

Junior Institution of Engineers
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