Reference books
Chrimes Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers
Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations
Marshall's Biographical Dictionary of Railway Engineers
Oxford Companion to British Railway History
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Missing persons: Galton
and more missing persons including Ahrons
Dawn Smith's
Biographical dictionary
Updated:
8 May 2012
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IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENT:
Major engineering journals, including
Journal of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers,
Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Transactions of the Newcomen Society
are now available on the Internet.
CHARGES for pdf downloads are beyond the realms of scholarship
Please see adjacent begging bowl
Improvements to Journal Institution of Locomotive Engineers: in future it is hoped to ease access to the excellent online archive run by the IMechE.
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Bookshops & publishers
Ellis's Encyclopaedia
Scenic railways
The best railway walk: Culzean to Dunure:
Oakwood Railways to Turnberry fills in the detail after nearly sixty years
Joy biography
Diaries [corrected]
Frank Jones's diaries
Greaves index of private owner wagons |
Railway accidents
See Rolt's Red for danger
Railway employees: tracing
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Haigh Foundry, Wigan
Kevin Jones (KPJ)
Publishers
Railway enthusiasts
Hamilton Ellis's estate & brief period as a spy
Locomotive Magazine: HELP??
Transacord sound recordings
Public library demise (or what is that if in Norwich)
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Chief Mechanical Engineer
There are some miserable scribes who consider that the title "Chief Mechanical Engineer" was a step down for a Locomotive Superintendent: if so see announcement of Drummond's advancement.
Locomotive design
Rubber components
Jan Koopman's
The fire burns much better: 200 years of in steam locomotive exhaust research, 1804-2004.
The website of Mr Jones in particular is an amazing piece of work in its effort to complete a database of British railway literature. page. vii
Schools class
Merchant Navy
A4 Pacifics
NER locos
BR standards
History (brief)
Train times (UK)
This service is frequently unreliable by selecting routes which fail to reach their destinations in time
Cheap train tickets
Alternative service at Seat 61
MacGregorization or who killed the railways?
VISUAL MATERIALS
Colour-Rail
F. Moore [Rudd]
Photographers
Guild of Railway Artists
Photos locomotives, stations, etc.
Signal boxes galore!!
Paintings & darwings
Lickey incline
Richard's 1948 shots
Southern Railway posters
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