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Obituary: George W. Carpenter (translator into English of Chapelon book)

Barry C. Lane and his Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway locomotives
cannot trace a review: please contact KPJ
Rixon Bucknall
Dundee locomotive manufacture
Grasemann Southern PRO

John Macnab

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Recent Backtrack: May 2020 (corona)

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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
Smith Highland 4-6-0s
Harry Knox

recent Backtrack: June 2020

Rails to Windermere (David Joy)
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

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
Whitaker: father & son: error
PROFESSIONAL MEMOIRS
Counter pressure tests on B17 (Robson paper)

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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Andrew Martin joins Canaries

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NISBET or NESBIT?

Locomotive types

LMS Journal
Railways South East
British Railway Journal

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NISBET or NESBIT?

Locomotive types

LMS Journal

Midland Record
Any hope of borrowing some of later Issues?
Railways South East
British Railway Journal