F.A.S. Brown

Brown, F.A.S.
Great Northern locomotive engineers. Volume 1 1846-1881. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966. 252pp.

Contents

G.N.R. Locomotive Department 1846-1881 page13
Principal personalities concerned
Author's Introduction
Prologue: a Railway is Born
1..Benjamin Cubitt and Edward Bury: 1846-1850
2. Sturrock is 'installed' at Boston; Much Rolling Stock Activity: 1850-1852
3. Bury's Big Engines; Sturrock and the ten Cramptons; Denison defeats his engineers: 1850—1852
4. The move to Doncaster; 215 on trial; a road van comedy: 1852—1855
5 The end of the beginning: 1855—1859
6. Leith 'invokes' the E.C.J.S.; Steam Tenders  appear: 1859—1864
7. The traffic crescendo; Parker and Sturrock resign: 1864—1866
8. The Interregnum; Stirling and Shotton arrive: 1866
9. Stirling on probation; the coupled express engine phase: 1866-1868
10. Still on probation; Stirling veers towards singles: 1867—1869
11. The big express engines, 4—2—2 or 4—4—0?: 1869-1871
12. Lincoln limits the big six; Stirling's rebuilding  success; a spate of routine construction: 1871—1876
13. Keeping up with the Joneses; the bothersome bogie stock: 1868—1887.
14. Continuous brakes; the Westinghouse-Smith duel: 1872—1879
15. Stirling tours East Anglia; the Firth fireworks; Ramsbottom inspects Doncaster: 1876-1879
16. More rolling stock; Howlden succeeds Grifllths; 'Domelights' and 'Duckets': 1876-1888
17. Automatic brakes; the cautious approach: 1878—1881
18. Half-way house: 1880-1881
Index

Nigel Gresley : locomotive engineer. London, Ian Allan, 1961. 215 pp.. + 34 plates (incl. 2 folding). 107 illus. (incl.. port.), l6 diagrs. Bibliog.

Contents

1 From Normandy to Doncaster: 1066-1905
2 From Sturrock to Howlden: 1850-1905
3 Gresley's first rolling stock: 1905-1911
4 The first Gresley engines: 1911-1913
5 A Locomotive loan, larger boilers and new shunters: 1913-1915
6 A Four-cylinder Pacific, a three-cylinder goods engine and other Wartime activities: 1915-1918
7 'Bird's Nests' in the Atlantics - and superheating: some new tank engine designs: 1918-1921
8 The large Moguls, improved 2-8-0s and larger shunters: 1919-1922
9 Carriage and wagon highlights: 1912-1922
10 Genesis of No. 1470: 1915-1922
11 The Grouping: some first fruits: 1923-1929
12 Improving the breed: 1923-1934
13 Freight and mixed-traffic designs, the 'Shires' and Southern engine tests: 1924-1929
14 The 'Sandringhams', a bold experiment and a fast tank: 1927-1931
15 Post-grouping rolling stock: 1923-1932
16 Boosters, boilers and a Bo-bo: 1923-1941
17 More effective use of steam: 1925-1941
18 Railcars: steam and diesel: 1923-1935
19 Some Gresleyana: to Abu Zaabal and Kicking Horse Pass: 1923-1940
20 The Chapelon influence: a 2-6-4-4 and the large Mikados: 1929-1938
21 Four glorious years: 1935-1939
22 The streamlined coaches: final carriages and wagons: 1932-1941
23 The last big engines: maintenance problems multiply: 1935-1941
24 Sir Nigel's finale: 1936-1941
25 New brooms sweep clean: 1941-1949
26 Under public ownership: 1948-1959
Bibliography

At back of the book there should be two folding plates containing cut-away drawings of No. 10000 with water-tube boilers and No. 2001 Cock o' the North in original condition