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Locomotive Magazine
PROBLEM: Has anybody encountered E.V. Hardy: a railway enthusiast? or Richard D. Foster's History of New Street Station which Ottley 13682 had or was to have 4 volumes

Recent Backtrack articles
Jsames Robb Scott, architect to Southern
LNWR Glasson Dock branch
Dodds dynasty

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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

Donations & comments very gratefully received

North British Study Group: latest
Wheatley Ferry Pilots
Harry Knox

GS&WR Ireland new book (press to expand)

Backtrack: December 2021:
BackTrack Volume 36: 2022-
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. 113)
Leith Locomotive Works

Railway World

Last Great Western Railway J.
Authorship
Ahrons... Huge study, but error prone
C.J. Allen: stop watch No. 1
Phil Atkins... some librarians work in right place to write
James Boyd... a touch of class
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
William Yeadon...LNER s upreme expert
Glancey's Giants of steam
Chris Aspinwall on NCC U2 4-4-0 and W class 2-6-0 & who designed them
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
DAVID TURNER
Whitaker: father & son: error
PROFESSIONAL MEMOIRS
Counter pressure tests on B17 (Robson paper)

Scottish Transport: Annual Magazine
Beckenham & Hajducki

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
Amberley Books
Crecy
Oakwood Press

Lightmoor Press
Railway & Canal Historical Society
RCTS
Books about locomotives in alphabetical order
Author index
Journals (magazines) indexed
Audio: Peter Handford & Transacord
Cloud anthology

Engine drivers

Junior Institution of Engineers
Modellers Backtrack
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Andrew Martin joins Canaries

Links to other websites

Invergarry station for Fort Augustus website

David Turner website on railways & brewing (includes page on Elliot
NISBET or NESBIT?

Locomotive types

LMS Journal

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British Railway Journal

West Runton
NISBET or NESBIT?

Locomotive types

LMS Journal
Locomotives Illustrated

Midland Record
Any hope of borrowing some of later Issues?
In Issue 22 there is a reference to Early Midland Railway locomotives Volume 22 published in 1947: who published and authored it?
Railways South East
British Railway Journal