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NEWS: British Transport Treasures Railways Archive very useful site for source documents especially official accident reports Magazine back issues online service for single issues Robert Humm of Stamford: excellent secondhand specialist Mike Field's index to Southern Railway articles Transport connexions in Norfolk? Links to other websites Preservation organizations National Railway Museum Railway Preservation Society of Ireland Newcomen Society Heritage railways Transport Ticket Society	Latest update: 24 February 2015 Authorship James Boyd Glancey's Giants of steam Books Author index	Trevithick Stephensons Ramsbottom    locomotives Webb    locomotves Beyer Worsdell    NER locomotives Matthew Kirtley    Kirtley locomotives Johnson    Johnson locomotives Churchward    GWR locomotives Holden    GER locomotives McIntosh    Caledonian locomotives Aspinall    L&YR locomotives Ivatt    Ivatt locomotives	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 What is wrong with Hewlett Packard scanners? Software fails to update Irish locomotives
search engine powered by FreeFind Use control "F" to find material within files Not found? Failure may be due to spelling or typing error 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 Locomotive design Stanier locomotives Still puzzled??" Not found? Improvements?: steamindex@steamindex.com [KPJ having problems with BT CONNECT - an inept name!	Journals (magazines) indexed Latest Backtrack: February 2015 Dugald Drummond in Australia?? Bob Farmer's Index Latest Railway Archive (No. 45) Hornsea & Devizes branches Latest Archive (No. 84) Brain's Tramway with Lilleshall locomotives Latest Great Western Railway J. Gas turbines Locomotive Magazine project Railway World Institution of Locomotive Engineers papers LMS Journal Midland Record Railways South East BRJ Bookshops publishers? Frank Jones's diaries Greaves index of private owner wagons	Train Songs Cloud anthology Hugh Le Fleming: artist John Knowles: Steam locomotive resistance Adrian Tester & the 4F & more Donations & comments very gratefully received Llantilio Castle	Joy Diaries Brian Reed P.C. Dewhurst (PCD) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Trevithick: update Beeching, Marples and Serpell and Harold Wilson (the real villain?) Locomotive Performance & Efficiency Bulletins (BTC) Tuplin: eccentric index entries Sean O'Brien's Train Songs published Faber: acquired Holt Book Shop in Easter Week Sean O'Brien's view from the train: we travel through time as well as space on a train Problems with website please contact: Webmaster: kevinjones35@btconnect.com who unlike RAC, British Telecom, etc he responds to his e-mails
Visual materials Other images including Bloomer Kevin Jones (KPJ) Verena Holmes Publishers Railway enthusiasts: are they an endangered species?	Reference books Libraries and their demise in Norfolk	Biographies: British locomotive designers Sir Nigel Gresley George & Robert Stephenson David Wardale Inspecting Officers Locomotive types
Loco Driver (excellent pictures & captions) Six Bells Junction [rail tours] Carscapes: very good book: further info		Train times (UK) Cheap train tickets Alternative service at Seat 61

Preserved railways/Heritage railways

Bluebell Railway
Didcot Railway Centre
Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Keighley & Worth Valley Railway
Llangollen Steam Railway
Middleton Railway Trust
Nene Valley Railway
North Norfolk Railway
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
Scottish Railway Preservation Society
Scottish Tramway & Transport Society
Severn Valley Raiway
More informative site abut SVR
Talyllyn Railway
Towcester SMJ
West Somerset Railway Company
Watercress Line

Preservation groups

Cumbrian Railways Association
Caledonian Railway Association
Glasgow & South Western Railway Association
Highland Railway Society
North British Railway Study Group checked 30 January 2015: still excellent site
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Association
Great Eastern Railway Society
Gresley Society
Historical Model Railway Society (HMRS)
Contains many further references to sources of information: checked 1 February 2015.
Industrial Railway Society
Well conceived site: in bibliographical terms this is a paradigm for what a properly organized historical organization should do as all its out-of-print journal material is available online together with sufficient details to order in-print material.
Irish Railway Preservation Society
Kidderminster Railway Museum
LMS Society: checked 30 January 2015: still excellent site
The Locomotive Club of Great Britain is self-evident in its aims
London & North Western Railway Society
London & South Western Railway
Midland Railway Association
Midland Railway Centre website
Norfolk Railway Society
North Eastern Railway Association
Contains a considerable amount of bibliographical information, which may be accessed in EXCEL or HTML.
Railway & Canal Historical Society: DOES NOT RECIPROCATE LINK
Railway Correspondence & Travel Society (RCTS) is one of the main enthusiast bodies in Great Britain
Signalling Record Society Stephenson Locomotive Society is the oldest (established 1909) enthusiast society
Vintage Carriages Trust & Museum
Warwickshire railways

Societies
A1 Steam Locomotive Society
Clan Line preservation group Cock o' the North recreation group

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