Books relating to steam locomotive development
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The primary source of information about books on railway history is George Ottley's monumental bibliograpy, with its two supplements (no serious public library can claim to be that if Ottley is not available). Jack Simmons' overall evaluative surveys of the literature (both in his own books and in the Oxford Companion – Ottley is mainly non-evaluative) are also useful, but Simmons was less concerned about railway engineering. Literature in journals about steam locomotives is contained in Jones' Steam locomotive Development, but the bulk of that is available within this website. Due to the extreme paucity of the public library service in Norfolk for material other than English literature excessive reliance has had to be placed upon Ottley and its Supplements. The online public access catalogues, especially that of the British Library, but also of university and public libaries (notably Hampshire and the Devon County Library at Newton Abbot) are also useful. Where reference to books has been made in journals such books are listed herein..Please inform the "webmaster" of any major omissions.
Abbott, R.A.S.
Crane locomotives: a survey of British
practice. Norwich: Goose & Sons, 1973.
Part One: Crane Locomotives Built New by Private Builders, 1868-1950
Dubs and Co., Glasgow; Neilson and Co., Glasgow; Manning, Wardle and Co.
Leeds; Black, Hawthorn and Co., Gateshead; Beyer, Peacock and Co., Manchester;
R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Co., Newcastle upon Tyne; Barclays and Co,
Kilmarnock; Andrew Barclay Sons and Co., Kilmarnock; Grant, Ritchie and Co.,
Kilmarnock; Vulcan Foundry Limited, Newton-le-Willows; Hudswell, Clarke and
Co., Leeds; Nasmyth, Wilson and Co., Patricroft; Kerr, Stuart and Co.,
Stoke-on-Trent. Part Two: Crane Locomotives Built New by Railway Companies,
1888-1921: North Eastern Railway Co., Gateshead Works; London and North Western
Railway Co., Crewe Works; Great Western Railway Co., Swindon Works. Part
Three: the Hybrid Types; Crane Locomotives Rebuilt From Normal Locomotives
;B¥ Railway Companies, 1866-1924: London and North Western Railway Co.,
Crewe Works; North London Railway Co., Bow Works; Great Western Railway Co.,
Swindon Works; Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Co., Horwich Works; Great
Eastern Railway Co., Stratford Works; Great Central Railway Co., Gorton Works;
Great Northern Railway Co., Doncaster Works.
The Fairlie Locomotive. Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1970.
Ottley 10086
Vertical boiler locomotives and railmotors built in Great Britain.
Oxford: Oakwood, 1989.
Ottley 15776
Acworth, W.M.
The railways of England, 5th ed.. London: John Murray, 1900. First
edition 1899. Facsimile reprint: Ian Allan. 480pp.
Adderson, Richard and Kenworthy, Graham
Branch lines around Cromer. Midhurst: Middleton Press, 1998. 96pp.
[Series Editor Vic Mitchell].
Further info
Ahrons, E. L.
See separate entry
Allen, C. Edgar
The modern locomotive. Cambridge University Press, 1912. 174pp.
Allen, Cecil J.
Assessment of authorship and
books
Allen, G.C.
Railways: British railways from their beginning until 1960. Oxford,
Blackwell, 1960. viii, 112 p. + front. + 19 plates. 38 illus. (incl.. 9 line
drawings: s. els.), diagr., table. (Blackwell's pocket histories, No.7).
An admirable introduction to railway history.
Allen, G.F.
British Railways, today and tomorrow, London, Ian Allan, 1959. 196
p. + col. front. + 48 plates. 141 illus., 2 diagrs., 9 tables.
Steam received considerable attention in this edition, but by the
3rd (1962) edition this had been reduced to one "decline of steam."
Anderson, P. Howard
Forgotten railways: the East Midlands. Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1973. 224pp.
Ottley 8994
Armstrong, Jim
LNER locomotive development between 1911 and 1947, with a brief history
of developments from 1850 to 1911. Beer (Seaton): Peco. 1974. 93pp. many
illus and diagrs. (s. els)
Atkins, A.G., W. Beard, D.J. Hyde and R.
Tourret
GWR goods wagons. Newton Abbot. David & Charles, 1975/6.
2v.
Ottley 12022 now replaced by 3rd edition reviewed
published by Tourret Publishing BackTrack 14
page 374: the "definitive work"
Atkins, [C.]
Philip
See also authorship
Atterbury, Paul
Along country lines: exploring the rural railways of yesterday. Newton
Abbot: David & Charles, 2005. 256pp.
Cappuccino coffee table book. Everything is prettified. Mixture of
lines open and lines closed. Spalding to Yarmouth encompasses Sheringham
represented by a coloured postcard taken at a time before motor cars became
common (there is not one in the picture) yet at a time when it is obvious
where it is in spite of a lack of any "high architecture". The view of Weybourne
Station is almost good enough to taken one in, but picnic tables are definitely
post "preservation". Author is associated with BBC Antiques Road
Show.
Awdry, Christopher
Brunel's broad gauge railway: commemorating the Centenary of the GWR's
gauge conversion. Sparkford: Oxford Publishing, 1992. 144pp.
Chapter 7: Locomotives and rolling stock. One page bibliography (only
books cited with any hope of finding them).
Bailey, Michael R.
Early railways 3. Sudbury: Six Martlets, [2006?]
Papres from the Third International Railway Conference of 2004: important
papers include those by Jim Rees and Andy Guy on Richard Trevithick and
pioneering locomotives and Richard Hills' Development of machine tools in
the early railway era. There are also three papers on the restaged Rainhill
Trials of 2002. Reviewed Miles MacNair J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2006,
35, 449..
Robert Stephenson: the eminent engineer. Aldershot:
Ashgate, 2003. 401pp.
Reviewed by Gordon Biddle in Journal of the Railway & Canal
Historical Society, 2004, 34, 637. Biddle has some slight
reservations, but overall the book is extremely well-received.
See also Stephenson
page..
with John P. Glithero
The engineering and history of Rocket: a survey report. York: National
Railway Museum, 2000. 186pp.
The Odin Project: design and construction of Denmark's first locomotive.
Danish Railway Museum, 2004.
Reviewed by Grahame Boyes in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2005,
35, 203.
The Stephensons' Rocket: a history of a pioneering locomotive.
NMSI Trading. [2003?], 64pp.
Published by Institution of Civil Engineers: well reviewed by
Rutherford in Backtrack, 17,
234.
Baker, Allan Charles and Thomas David Allen Civil
Bagnalls of Stafford: locomotive builders and railway
engineers of the Castle Engine Works, Stafford, England 1875-1972. Oakwood,
1975. 265pp.
Includes list of locomotives manufactured. Ottley 15728
Baker, H. Wright., ed.
Inchley's theory of heat engines, 5th ed. London Longmans Green, 1942.
Baker, Michael H.C.
Taking the train - a tribute to Britain's greatest railway
photographers. Michael H.C. Baker. Sparkford: Patrick Stephens. 1993.
176pp.
A very important source of biographical information about some
of the most significant photographers of the railway scene in Great Britain
and Ireland. The samples of their art appear to have been chosen with care
by the author/photographer. The following are included: P.M. Alexander, Dr
Ian C. Allen, W.J.V. Anderson. H.J. Ashman, E.D. Bruton, H.C. Casserley,
C.R.L. Coles, S.T. Cowan, Derek Cross, M.W. Earley, F.R. Hebron, George F.
Heiron, T.G. Hepburn, D.M.C. Hepburne-Scott, C.C.B. Herbert, John Kennedy,
Rev A.H. Malan, Michael Mensing, O.J. Morris, Brian Morrison, Rex Murphy,
David Murray, Ivo Peters, P. Ransome-Wallis, R.C. Riley, Peter Shoesmith,
G.H. Soole, R.D. Stephen, H. Gordon Tidey, Eric Treacy, E.R. Wethersett,
and P.B. Whitehouse.
Barger, Ralph L.
The Palace Cars. Sykesville: Greenberg, 1988.
Detailed history of Pullman cars: bibliographical details checked
Library of Congress catalog
Barnes, R.
Locomotives that never were: some 20th century British projects. London:
Jane's, 1985. 96pp. Further info
Barton, D.B.
The Redruth & Chasewater Railway, 1824-1915. Truro: Truro Bookshop,
1960.
Ottley 7183: note not Chacewater which was not reached.
Beavor, E.S.
Steam was my calling. London: Ian Allan, 1974. 183pp.
Beddoes, Keith, Wheeler, Colin and Wheeler,
Stephen
Metro-Cammell: 150 years of craftsmanship. Cheltenmham: Runpast, 1999.
112pp.
Mainly official photographs and extracts from press materal as published
in journals like Railway Gazette. Metro-Cammell built the body work
for many steam railcars: p. 24: SECR Railmotor No. 1 of 1901 with Metropolitan
coachwork and p. 44: Sentinel-Cammell steam railcar for LMS: No. 4144
Bell, A.M.
Locomotives. their construction, maintenance and operation... London,
Virtue, 3rd ed. 1936. 2 v. (viii, 433 p.- consecutive pagination). 2 col.
fronts. 53 illus., 246 diagrs., tables.
Locomotives: their construction, maintenance and operation.... London,
Virtue, 7th ed. 1949. 2 v. (464 p.) + 2 fronts. (incl. 1 col. folding) +
6.plates (incl.. 4 folding & 4 col.) 75 illus., 244 diagrs. (incl. 25
s. els.), 4 tables, 4 plans.
This work was intended for the apprentice fitter or locomotive man.
It is also useful as a technical introduction for the enthusiast.
Bell, R.
Twenty-five years of the North. Eastern Railway, 1898-1922. London:
Railway Gazette, 1951. 87 p.
Bellwood, J. and Jenkinson, David
Gresley and Stanier, 2nd ed. London, HMSO, 1986.
Bellwood was the Chief Mechanical Engineer at York Railway Museum.
He was responsible for bringing many of the once static exhibits back to
life. Sadly his life was shortened by working with asbestos boiler lagging
when working with the LNER.
Benest, K.R.
Metropolitan electric locomotives. Lens of Sutton, 1963. 44pp.
Ottley 926
Bennett, Alan
The Great Western Railway in Mid Cornwall. Southampton: Kingfisher,
1988. 96pp.
Includes the mainline and its former destination
in Falmouth, the complicated network of branch lines serving the china clay
industry and the branch lines to Newquay (both from Par and from Chacewater)
and those to Fowey (from Loswithiel and from Par. The St Blazey workshops
have a separate chapter as does Truro with its branch down to Newham on the
tideway. The photographs are beautifully reproduced and the text is excellent.
The development of the tourist industry in Newquay, and to a lesser extent
at Perranporth, is considered at length.
Bett, Wingate H. and John C. Gillham.
Great British tramway networks. London: Light Railway Transport League,
4th ed., 1962. 200pp. + folding maps + 56 plates..
Further info
Biddle, Gordon
Britain's historic railway buildings: an Oxford gazetteer of structures
and sites. OUP. 2003. 759pp.
Further info
Bishop, F.C.
Queen Mary of the iron road, as told to M.C.D.Wilson and A.S.L. Robinson.
London, Jarrolds, 1946.150 p.+ front.+ 14 plates. 14 illus.
A "ghosted" autobiography of Driver Bishop — the driver who
accompanied the Coronation Scot to the New York World's Fair.
Blakemore, Michael and Michael Rutherford.
Duchess of Hamilton: ultimate in Pacific power. York: NRM, 1990.
52pp.
Although superficially about one locomotive this work describes the
whole class
Bond, Roland C.
A lifetime with locomotives. Cambridge: Goose, 1975. 329pp.
Boocock, Colin
BR steam in colour, 1948-1968. London: Ian Allan, 1986.
Boocock had trained at Easleigh and presented at least one professional
paper: his comments on steam locomotive design are pertinent.
Bosley, Peter
Light railways in England and Wales. Manchester University Press,
1990. 240pp.
Bowen Cooke, C.J.
British locomotives: their history, construction; and modern
development. Facsimile reprint. Woking: Gresham Books, 1979.
Bradley, Rodger P.
Giants of steam the full story of the North
British Locomotive Co. Ltd. Oxford Publishing. 1995.
198pp.
Foreword by Sir Hugh Reid, President of
the North British Locomotive Preservation Group. The company was formed in
1903 from companies, the oldest of which was Sharp, Roberts & Co., originally
of Manchester, Neilson, and Dübs & Co. The extensive tabulated data
records the varied output for home and overseas railways. The experimental
Reid-Ramsay condensing turbine electric locomotive, and the Reid-Ramsay-McLeod
development from it are described at some length. The design of the Royal
Scot and B17 classes for the LMS and LNER respectively is also described
as is the experimental high pressure locomotive Fury. The late and
disappointing ventures in electric and diesel traction is also discussed.
The financial record is observed. The North British Collection of
photographs at the Mitchell Library in Glasgow is mentioned. The illustrations
leave much to be desired and the captions are often inaccurate.
LNER 4-6-0s. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1988.
Includes 4-6-0s from the pre-Grouping companies. Rather thin. Ottley
18142..
The standard steam locomotives of British Railways. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1984. 112pp.
Adds nothing to what is treated more thoroughly elsewhere, notably
by Cox and in the RCTS series.
Bray, Maurice
Railway tickets, timetables and handbills. Moorland, 1985.
See Backtrack 2-17 (page 18) for
note on the utility of this book
Briggs, Asa
The power of steam. 1990.
Mentions George Stephenson's interest in electricity.
British Transport Commission
Handbook for steam locomotive
enginemen. London, 1957. 196pp. 89 diagrs. (44 col.)
Extremely lucid: diagrams are consistently colour coded (oil, water, steam.
etc). There are sections on valve gears, lubrication, braking systems, and
at a deeper level the causes of dark smoke. Includes eccentricities of Southern
Pacifics and those of the GWR. Clarity has probably never been bettered.
There was a similar Handbook for diesel traction. Blurb in Townroe's
'Arthurs', 'Nelsons' & 'Schools' indicates that he was Author
of this excellent text..
Brookbank, B.W.L.
London main line war damage. Capital, 2007?.
Reviewd in Steam World,
2007 (243) p. 65. Author of several series of articles in
Backtrack
Brooks, Philip R.B.
William Hedley – locomotive pioneer. Newcastle 1980.
Brown, F.A.S.
From Stirling to Gresley, 1882-1922. Oxford: Oxford Publishing Co.,
1974.149pp. illus. diagrs. (incl. s. els).
Extremely poor index. Variable in treatment: Ivatt receives less detailed
analysis than either Stirling or Gresley. In the case of Stirling there is
a considerable of amount of useful material about the Stirling family in
general.
Great Northern locomotive engineers. Volume 1 1846-1881. London: Allen
& Unwin, 1966. 252pp.
Detailed entry
Nigel Gresley : locomotive engineer. London, Ian Allan, 1961. 215
pp.. + 34 plates (incl. 2 folding). 107 illus. (incl.. port.), l6 diagrs.
Bibliog.
Brown, G.A., J.D.C.A. Prideaux and H.G.
Radcliffe
The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway. Dawlish, David & Charles, 1964.
134p. + col. front. + 24 plates. 63 illus., 29 diagrs. (incl. s. els.), 13
tables, 8 plans, map. Bibliog.
Brown, Kenneth, R.C. Riley and Alan Thomas
British road steam vehicles. London: Collins & Brown, 1999.
112pp.
Includes colour illustration of Aveling-Barford steam roller supplied
to GWR c1947 as preserved near Redruth in May 1987.
Brownlie, John S.
Railway steam cranes: a survey of progress since 1875, with notes on
geographical spread of the British crade trade and biography of leading member
firms.. Glasgow: Author, 1973. 369pp.
Ottley 10675: who unusually adds: "A comprehensive and detailed work.".
See appreciative letters in
Archive Number 21 page 37, notably that by Ian Muir (who adds
some biographical notes about the Author)
Bryan, Tim
All in a day's work: life on the GWR. Hersham: Ian Allan, 2004.
160pp.
Based mainly on official photographs (including some from early 20th
century: there is one wonderful study of GWR official with Kaiser Wilhelm
waxed whiskers). Text includes extracts from GWR Mag.
Brunel: the great engineer. Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1999. 160pp.
This book with its excellent bibliography is considered with
Brunel
Bryant, E.T.
Railways: a readers guide. London: Clive Bingley, 1968.
Jones pointed out several errors and
limitations, but the limitations of public libraries have long since overtaken
works like Bryant's.
Bucknall, Rixon
Our railway history. 2nd edition. 1945.
A series of short historica1 sketches of pre-1923 main lines. Notes
on pre-1914 1iveries. Tabulted statistics. Bibliography. coloured folding
map. 122 illustrations. Rutherford made an extensive quotation concerning
LNWR (reproduced in precis Backtrack,
10, 622): the two sics may be a warning concerning liveries!.
Have always assumed that Rixon Bucknall captured the spirtit of the pre-grouping
railways. Ottley 5601.
Burridge, F.H.A.
Nameplates of the Big Four, including British Railways. Oxford Publishing,
1974.
Burton, Anthony
The railway builders. London: John Murray, 1992. 210pp.
The Rainhill story: the great locomotive trial. London: BBC, 1980.
164pp.
Ottley 12195
Cantrell, John
Nasmyth, Wilson & Co., Patricroft locomotive builders. Stroud:
Tempus, 2005.
Reviewed by John Marshall in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2005,
35, 209: he received it well noting the bibliography, index and complete
record of locomotives manufactured.
Carter, E.F.
Britain's railway liveries, colours, crests and linings, 1825-1948.
London, Burke, 1952. xvi, 358 p. + 16 plates. (incl. 8 col.) + folding paint
guide. 185 illus. 2 tables.
Britain's railway liveries, colours, crests and linings, 1825-1948.
London, Harold Starke, 2nd ed. 1963. xvi, 350 p. + 16 plates. (mcI. 8 col.)
+ folding paint guide. 188 illus.
Jones stated that this was the only
general work on this subject. Unfortunately, even the railway museums are
doubtful about exact liveries of the older locomotives as they pre-dated
standard colours. Further there was a great deal of variance between the
works of individual railways; in addition weathering produced further
changes.
British steam locomotives. London, Foyle, 1962. 92 p. + 8
plates. 26 illus. 4 diagrs., 4 tables (Foyle's handbooks).
The railway encyclopaedia. London, Harold Starke, 1963. [viii] , 365
p.
The entriesare brief and of type appropriate to glossaries rather
than encyclopaedias. Alphabetization is poor. Sources are rarely quoted.
Some times inaccurate and not up-to-date. Diagrams and illustrations are
also lacking. Unfortunately, it is listed in Walford's Guide to reference
material.
Catchpole, L.T.
The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway. South Godstone (Surrey), Oakwood
Press, 4th ed. 1949. [iv] , 35 p. + col. front. + 12 plates. 24 illus., diagr.
9 plans, map. (Oakwood library of railway history, No. 51).
First published in 1936.
Chaloner, W.H.
John Galloway, 1804-1894, engineer of Manchester, and his 'Reminiscences'.
Manchester 1955.
Ottley 2889: reprinted from Trans Lancashire Cheshire Antiquarian
Soc., 1954, 64, 93-116.
Chapman, Colin
The Aber branch: Caerphilly to Senghenydd. Welsh Railways Research
Circle, 2005.
Reviewed by John Marshall in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2005,
35, 207: well-received: notes list of locomotives.
Chapman, W.G.
"Caerphilly Castle" : a book of railway locomotives for boys of all
ages. London, G.W.R., 1924. viii, 199 p.+ front. 106 illus. (mcI. 3 ports.),
20 diagrs., 3 tables.
Charlton, L.G.
The first locomotive engineers; their work in the North East of England.
Newcastle 1974.
Wylam Colliery records
Christiansen, Rex and Miller, R.W.
The Cambrian Railways. Volume I: 1852-1888. Newton Abbot: David &
Charles, 1967. 178pp + plates. col. front
The Cambrian Railways. Volume II: 1889-1968. Newton Abbot: David &
Charles, []. 218pp incl. plates. col. front.
Clark, Ronald H. see separate file
Clarke, David.
Locomotives in detail 5: Riddles class 6/7 standard Pacifics. Ian
Allan, 2006. 96pp.
Lives up to its title: a great amount of detail shown mainly by
photographs and short sections of text. 4mm scale drawings. Some of the
photographs suffer from being poor originals or through poor
reproduction.
Clarke, J.F.
Power on land and sea: 160 years of industrial enterprise on Tyneside:
a history of R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co Ltd. engineers and
shipbuilders. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Hawthorn Leslie, 1979.
Ottley 15730
Clinker, C.R..
Clinker's Register... 1830-1977. Bristol: Avon Anglia, 1978. 181pp.
Ottley 10861 occupies over a column on this complex project which
began as typescripts circulated to subscribers and ended as a "publication"
with over 27,000 entries. It is nomally cited as "Clinker". Ottley 3865 is
replaced by Ottley 10861 (first supplement).
Coates, Noel
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway wagon diagrams. L&YR Society,
2000. 66pp
Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway wagons. V. 1. Didcot: Wild Swan,
1990.
Colburn, Zerah
Locomotive engineering and the mechanism of railways. [completed by
D.K. Clark]. Glasgow: William Collins, 1864-71. xiv, 320pp.
Published in parts. Charles E. Lee
Trans Newcomen Soc ., 1949/50,
27, 163 et seq (page 172) called this "the great standard work"
and noted that Clark's involvement was minimal.
Cole, Beverley and Guild of Railway Artists
Along artistic lines: two centuries of railway art. Penryn: Atlantic
Press, 2003. 127pp. landscape format
Title is highly inaccurate as it implies a major historical study
which it is not: the period prior to the recent efforts of the GRA is given
scant attention, although the images within this brief section are sometimes
stunning, notably Leonard Campbell Taylor's The Refreshment Car where
couple are finishing dinner with cigarettes with Isle of Arran in background
and Seamill below as train heads for Largs: lady looks like Duchess of Argyll.
There are a couple of Stanhope Forbes', the Abraham Solomon's and Spencer
Gore's Letchworth Station. Some of the Guild's work is impressive,
but frankly much leaves KPJ stone cold: too much is reminiscent of Hamilton
Ellis at his worst with railways set in a preternatural world, sadly without
Eve. Beverley Cole is also the Author of an entry
in the ODNB on Cuneo and of many smaller books and articles on railway
posters..
Cole, Beverley and Durack, Richard.
Railway posters, 1923-1947 from the Collection of the National Railway
Museum, York. London: Laurence King, 1992. 160pp.
Many superb colour illustrations. Some of the posters relate to
locomotives. There is an atmospheric study by Cuneo of an LMS Duchess class
on a turnatble inside a roundhouse entitled The day begins.of 1946:
Pp. 154-8 give brief biographical notes on many of the artists listed, including
Dame Laura Knight, Tom Purvis and Norman Wilkinson.
Coleman, Terry
The railway navvies: a history of the men who made the railways. London:
Hutchinson, 1965.
Includes written sketches of Locke, Peto and Brassey
Cook, Kenneth John
Swindon steam, 1921-1951. London: Ian Allan, 1974. 174pp. diagrs.
Cooper, B.K.
BR motive power since 1948. London: Ian Allen, 1985. 128pp.
Doubtful if it justified the cost (55p) of its transport across the
Breckland County library from Norwich to Sheringham. Book covers both steam
(including new classes delivered to pre-nationalisation designs, such
as 15XX, but not B1s, West Countries, etc), the BR standard designs, the
rebuilt Bulleid Pacifics, and their replacements both electric and diesel.
Possibly a useful source for some of the remarkable "modern" motive power,
such as the Fell and Crossley Co-Bos.
Cormack., I.L.
History of the Rothesay Tramways Company, 1879-1949. Scottish Tramway
& Transport Society. 1986.
includes notes on miniature railway at Ettrick Bay
Cornwell, H.J. Campbell
Forty years of Caledonian locomotives,
1882-1922. Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1974.
William Stroudley: craftsman of steam. Newton
Abbot: David & Charles, 1968. 263pp. incl. plates.
Note that Michael Rutherford (The
Drummond Age. Part Two). Backtrack, 2004, 18, 754-60 has
reservations on some of this author's assessment of Stroudley's work at
Cowlairs.
Coste, L and Perdonnet, A. Mémoire sur
les chemins à ordinères. Paris, 1830.
Ottley 277 (note mentions that Rainhill Trials are included within the 200pp).
Reference to Ottley shows other key texts. Historians like E.A. Forward and
J.G.H. Warren considered Perdonnet to be very significant...
Cross-Rudkin, Peter and Chrimes, Mike
Biographical dictionary of civil engineers of Great Britain and Ireland.
Volume 2 1830-1890. Paddock Wood: Thomas Telford Ltd, 2008.
Unlikely to be seen in book-burning Norwich either at the video centre
(alias Millennium Library) or at the UEA (specializes in creative writing,
no wonder). Reviewed in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2008, 36,
123: "This book should become the data source for many yet unexplored areas
of research".
Cuneo, Terence
The railway painting of Terence Cuneo. London: New Cavendish Books,
1984. 128pp.
Includes a brief autobiographical introduction; reproductions of
paintings, posters, preliminary sketckes and photographs of the artist at
work: there was also a spearte autobiography: The mouse and its master
(Ottley 12585).
Currie, J.R.L.
The Northern Counties Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1973/4. 2 vols.
Third volume, which would have covered locomotives & rolling stock
was never completed. Work seen in Edinburgh' Central City Library..
Dart, Maurice
Cornwall narrow gauge including the Camborne and Redeuth Tramway.
Midhurst: Middleton, 2005.
West Cornwall mineral railways. Midhurst: Middleton, 2005.
Reviewed briefly in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2005, 35,
211/212: not well received.
Day-Lewis, C.
Bulleid, last giant of steam. London, Allen & Unwin, 1964. 299
p. + front. + 34 plates. 70 illus., 3 diagrs. (s. els.), 16
tables. Bibliog.
Department of Scientific & Industrial Reserch.
Report of the Bridge Stress Committee. London: HMSO, 1928.
Dickinson, H.W.
A short history of the steam engine. Cambridge University Press,
1938.
with Titley, A.
Richard Trevithick: the engineer and the man. CUP, 1934.
Ottley 2862
Digby, Nigel J.L.
A guide to the Midland & Gt Northern Joint Railway. [Shepperton]:
Ian Allan, 1993. 160pp. Bibliography.
Includes plans of most stations, notes on Melton Constable, major
members of staff, locomotives, architecture, civil engineering structures
and concrete manufacturing.
Doherty, Douglas, editor
The LMS Duchesses. Hemel Hempstead: Model and Allied Publications,
1973. 89pp + folding diagram.
Contents: Introduction by editor; The LMS Duchesses- their design
and construction by E.A.. Langridge; The LMS Duchesses- a performance evaluation
by John Powell; The LMS Duchesses- a driver reminisces by Peter Johnson ;
The LMS Duchesses- a critical appreciation by W.A. Tuplin. General arrangement
diagrams, numbers, names, etc, poorly printed photographs.
Royal Scots of the LMS. London: Ian Allan, 1970. 64pp + plates.
Contributions by E.S. Cox, W.A. Tuplin, John Powell and P.G.
Johnson
Doyle, Oliver and Stephen Hirsch
Railways in Ireland, 1834-1984. Dublin: Signal, 1983. 204pp.
Published to celebrate 150 year anniversary of Dublin & Kingstown
Railway.
Duffy, Michael C.
Electric railways, 1880-1990. London: Institution of Electrical Engineers,
2003. 452pp. (IEEE History of Technology Series No. 31)
Author has also contributed several papers in
Trans. Newcomen Soc. notably
one on technomorphology and the Stephenson system.
Dunbar, Alan G. and Glen, I.A.
Fifty years with Scottish steam. Truro: Bradford Barton, [1982].
Memories of GNoSR, briefly of the NBR, then apprentice at St Rollox.
Latterly chareghand fitter at Parkhead where he experienced GNR and Gresley
products
Durrant, A.E.
Garratt locomotives of the world. Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1981. 207pp.
Based on earlier The Garratt locomotive.
Kitson-Meyer
The Mallet locomotive. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1974. 144pp.
bibliog. (David & Charles Locomotive Studies)
Relatively thin coverage of a large subject: includes the remarkable
Dutch mallets used in Java (Indonesia) and the huge Challengers and
Big Boys, the latter of which could produce 8,000 dhp or 10,000 cylinder
horse power.
Earl, L.A. [Laurie]
Speeding north with the Royal Scot. Oxford University Press, 1939.
Copies available abebooks.com
Earnshaw, Alan
An illustrated history of trains in trouble: a century of British railway
disasters, 1868-1968.. Penryn: Atlantic, 1996. 176pp.
Over 200 accidents with 300 photographs. Unfortunately, the Official
Accident Reports are not cited, and there is no thorough attempt to link
accidents by type.
Elliot, J.
Early days of the Southern Railway. Journal of Transport History,
1960, 4, 197-213.
Ellis, [Cuthbert] Hamilton
Biographical &
bibliographical information about Hamilton Ellis
Essery
See separate page for Essery
brothers
Evans, Jim.
Man of the Southern; Jim Evans looks back; ed. Peter Grafton.
London: Allen & Unwin, 1980. 102pp. odd shape.
Bournemouth: 1945 cleaner: 1967 driving REPS. came from a railway
family. Mr Bulleid's engines were deteriorating both internally and externally.
See section on SR locomotives for
observations on Bulleid Pacifics..
See also footplatemen trade
unions
Evans, M.
Atlantic era : the British Atlantic locomotive. London, Percival Marshall,
1961. [iv] , 94 p. + front. 49 illus., 20 tables.
Inverness to Crewe: the British 4-6-0 locomotive.
Hemel Hempstead: Model Aeronautical Press. 1966. 164 p.
Brief Foreword by J.F. Harrison. Does not appear to have included
B2 class derived by Thompson from B17.
Pacific steam the British Pacific locomotive. London, Percival Marshall,
1961. viii, 80 p.35 illus., 5 tables.
Everett, Andrew
Visionary pragmatist: Sir Vincent Raven: North Eastern Railway, Locomotive
Engineer. Stroud: Tempus, 2006. 223pp.
A good book, with some flaws, but one of a small band of "proper"
biographies of railway engineers. Mediocre index which does not include the
name of George Heppell: Raven's Chief Draughtsman until 1919..
The strengths of this biography are considered
with Raven.
Farey, John
A treatise on the steam engine: historical, practical and descriptive.
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, [1971]. 2v.
The original page proofs complete with the Author's corrections are
housed in the British Library and these were used to produce this facsimile.
The author failed to complete his work as he died in 1851. Most of the work
is concerned with stationary boilers, but Trevithick's contribution to the
locomotive is mentiobed briefly.
Flinders, T.G.
On the Settle & Carlisle route. Ian Allan, 1981.
The Settle & Carlisle route revised. Ian Allan, 1985.
Added at behest of the Author: clearly should be on young Mr Blakemore's
shelves.
Foster, Richard D.
Pictorial record of LNWR signalling.Oxford: OPC, 1982.
Ottley 18192.
Freebury, Hugh
Great Western apprentice: Swindon in the 'thirties. Trowbridge: Wiltshire
County Council Library & Museum Service. 1985. 163pp.
One of the worst features of this book is the
extraordinary brown colour used for the type.
It is very different from the normal eulogy for all things Great Western
and paints a fairly grim picture of life as a trade apprentice with cruel
foremen and petty attitudes.
Freezer, C.J.
Locomotives in outline: GWR. Seaton: Peco. 38pp. landscape format
77 side and front elevations based on Swindon official drawings.
Originally published in Railway Modeller between 1958 and 1972.
Garfield, Simon
The last journey of William Huskisson. London: Faber 244pp.
An elegantly written and produced book which does rather more than
describe the brief fatal moments, but places Huskisson's involvement in the
Liverpool & Manchester Railway as central to its successs.
Garner, Rod
The Torrington & Marland Light Railway. Southampton: Kestrel Railway
Books. 104pp.
Gasson, Harold
Nostalgic days: further reminiscences of a Great Western
fireman. Oxford: Oxford Publishing, 1980.
Much relates to driver Bert Edmonds (especially Chapter 4)
Geddes, Howard and Bellass, Eddie with Peter Tatlow.
Highland Railway liveries. Easingwold: Pendragon in association with
HMRS, [1995]. 108pp.
Includes colour illustrations from a variety of sources. P. 9 shows
Stroudley on cab of one of his locomotives.
Gibbs, Ken
Reminiscences as office boy and apprentice at Swindon Works, 1944-1951:
the sights, sounds, smells, personalities and jobs remembered with nostalgia
and affection from steam days. Poole: Oxford Publishing, 1986. 190pp
+ plates.
Cover title: Swindon Works: apprentice in steam. Had a full
training as a fitter.
Gibson, John C.
Great Western locomotive design: a critical appreciation. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1984. 157pp.
Glasgow Museum of Transport
Scottish railway locomotives. Glasgow: Transport Museum, 1967. 50pp.
Glover, G.
British locomotive design,1825-1960. London: Allen & Unwin, 1967.
113pp.
Ottley 10436: one of the few general locomotive
histories: division of subject, therefore, of interest: early, Crewe frame
(William Barclay), Crampton, six-wheeled singles, 2-4-0s, 0-4-2s, 0-6-0s,
Mid-Victorian: single wheelers (inside-cylinder, bogie single), six-wheeled
four coupled: 2-4-0s, 0-4-2s, four-coupled bogie
Gooch, Daniel.
Diaries. Kegan, Paul, Trench & Co., 1892.
Memoirs & diary: transcribed from the original manuscript and edited
with an introduction and notes by Roger Burdett Wilson. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1972. 386pp.
Goslin, Geoff
Steam on the Widened Lines. Volume 1: The Great Northern and Midland
Railways and their successors. Colchester: Connor & Butler,
1997.60pp.
Information inside front and back covers and on covers (col.
illus.)
Steam on the Widened Lines. Volume 2: The Great Western and Southern
companies. Colchester: Connor & Butler, 1998. 56pp.
Goss, William Freeman Myrith
Locomotive performance: the result of a series of researches conducted
by the Engineering Laboratory of Purdue University. New York: Wiley,
1907. 439pp.
BLPC checked
Gould, David
Maunsell's SR steam carriage stock. Oxford: Oakwood, rev. ed. 1990.
144pp.
Many diagrams and tables (some in original typescript): includes a
brief contribution by R.W, Kidner: Maunsell's carriages and the holidaymaker.
(pp. 9-10).
Gourvish, Terry
British Railways, 1948-73: a business history. Cambridge University
Press. 1986. 781pp.
The most remarkable thing about this volume is that it is not held
in the village centre library in Norwich (which is remarkable when that village
sought to be a "cultural capital" and the author performed the work whilst
on the staff at the local liberal arts college). Now this village seeks to
divorce itself from the surrounding rural area. The work is notable for including
"Norwich" in its index; for describiung the muddle which followed nationalization
which was only to be exceeded by that following privatization which makes
it clear that "government" is a malign influence on transport in Britain
(Scotland now excepted). Although it has very little to say about motive
power what it does have to say is highly critical of Riddles (and was well
worth the £2.50 to convey it from civilized Suffolk to Sheringham).
British Rail, 1974-97: from integration to privatisation;
research by Mike Anson. Oxford University Press. 706pp.
This is an academic book, produced with the assistance of Mike Aston,
and an editorial team. It was partly based upon interviews. There are 159
pages of notes. Key data are listed in Appendixes.
Mark Huish and the London & North Western Railway: a study of management.
Leicester University Press, 1979. 319pp.
Ottley 10714: see also Ottley 10712 for
details of PhD Thesis British railway management in the nineteenth
century
Grafton, Peter
Edward Thompson of the L.N.E.R. Knaresborough: Kestrel Books, 1971.
139 pp. Preface
Men of the LNER. London: Allen & Unwin, 1982.
Ottley 18106
Sir Vincent Raven and the North Eastern Railway. Usk: Oakwood, 2005.
Grant, Brian
Home and distant: a 40-year railway career from apprentice fitter to BRB
Headquarters, 1952-93. Kettering: Silver Link, 1998. 144pp.
Includes work on Southern Region steam, on diesel locomotives and
on EMUs at Dover.
Green, C.C.
Cambrian Railways, 1859-1947. London: Ian Allan, 1997. 224pp.
Originally published as two separate works: might be dismissed as
a picture book, but is really an excellent picture history with very good
captions..
Griffiths, Denis see separate file
Hadfield, Charles
Atmospheric railways: a Victorian adventure in silent speed. Newton
Abbot: David & Charles, 1967.
Ottley 10139
Hambleton, F.C.
Locomotives worth modelling. Watford: Model and Allied Publications,
1977.
Originally published by Percival Parshall in 1949.
Hamilton, J.A.B.
Britain's railways in World War 1. London: Allen & Unwin, 1967.
Handford,
Peter
Hardy, R.H.N.
Haresnape, Brian
Harris, Michael
City of Truro: a locomotive legend. 2nd ed.
Kettering: Silver Link. 1992.
First published 1985: pamphlet
Great Western coaches: 1890-1954. 2nd ed. Newton Abbott: David &
Charles. 1972.
Ottley 12019
LNER standard Gresley carriages. Ottershaw (Surrey): Mallard Books,
1998.192pp. 202 diagrs., 109 illus.
Excludes the special train sets (Silver Jubilee, etc); end-door type
of vestibuled stock and steel-panelled vehicles (intended for another volume):
Mallard appears to be an Ian Allan subsidiary. Main illustrations are based
on official diagrams produced for the operators of the vehicles. Author states
that LNER diagrams were superior to those of the other companies. Includes
sleeping cars and catering vehicles, and some special vehicles. Carefully
chosen photographs. Acknowledges Newsome paper. Clearly made extensive use
of primary material held at PRO and at NRM York. With exception of one all
the diagrams consist of side and end elevations plus plans. Landscape format
would have been more suitable as diagrams are placed vertically on
pages.
British Rail Mark 2 coaches: the design that launched Intercity. Ottershaw
(Surrey): Mallard Venture, 1999.192pp. 191 illus including 17 coloured.
45 diagrams (42 carriage diagrs).
A thorough history with many sources cited (PRO/NRM/papers). Examines
decision making process. Predominantly text although 41 pages of tabulated
information; 4 pages of notes to sources. Includes relatively recent
refurbishment; e.g. Virgin CrossCountry , Gatwick Express stock 1981: Mark
2F; 414 EMU, class 73 electro-diesel; push and pull Edinburgh-Glasgow driving
van trailers introduced 1980. Reviewed by
JW. BackTrack, 14, 735
Hawkins, Chris and George Reeves
Great Eastern Railway engine sheds. Part 1. Stratford, Peterborough and
Norwich Locomotive Districts. Didcot: Wild Swan, 1986. 218 pp.
At Doncaster the GER took over the redundant, but in excellent condition,
premises of the LNWR.
The Wisbech & Upwell Tramway. Bucklebury: Wild Swan, 1982. 56pp.
Includes 0-6-0T and 0-4-0T tram locomotives (latter restricted mainly
to passenger traffic) and very brief mention of Y10 Sentinel tramway
lcomotives.
Haworth, Victoria
The making of a prodigy, Robert Stephenson: engineer and scientist.
Newcastle: Robert Stephenson Trust.
Head, F.B.
Stokers and pokers. London, 1849, etc.
Ottley 6309
Hendry, Robert
The changing face of Britain's railways, 1938-1953: the railway companies
bow out. Stamford: Dalrymple & Verdun, 2006. 192pp.
This is slightly more than a picture book and is unusual in considering
mainland Britain and Ireland on an almost equal footing. There is even a
chapter on Wales, and Scotland is not quite forgotten: the Far East (of England)
is ignored, however.
Hewison, Christian H.
From shedmaster to the Railway Inspectorate. Newton Abbot: David &
Charles, 1981.
Ottley 16693. Autobiographical: LNER 1926-1953;
Inspectorate 1953-1978.
Locomotive boiler explosions. Newton
Abbot: David & Charles, 1983.
Ottley 15765. A small book based on historical
lines, but some of the explosions were surprisingly late involving members
of the Grange and Duchess classes just before the end of normal
steam working on British Railways: the latter class seemed to be highly
prone..
Higgins, S.H. Pearce
The Wantage Tramway: a history of the first tramway to adopt mechanical
traction. Abingdon: Author, 1958.
Ottley 7421 includes a value judgement: "A very detailed study"
Higgins, R.N.
Over here: the story of the United States Army Transportation Corps class
S160 locomotives. Author, 1980.
Ottley 10506: see Hennessey's assessment:
BackTrack, 17, p. 544. Note Foreword by late F.J.
Bellwood.
Highet, Campbell
Scottish locomotive history: 1831-1923. London: Allen & Unwin,
1970. 240pp + plates. col front
Includes a forword by Roland Bond which includes
the following: In his book, to which it is a privilege and pleasure for me
to write this short foreword, Campbell Highet has done much more than describe
the technical features of many of the classes of locomotives which did their
work in Scotland. He has written about the men who directed affairs-great
names like Stroudley, the Stirlings, Dugald Drummond and John F. McIntosh,
to name but a few. In moving, as so many of them did, from one railway to
another their influence extended over a very wide field, often far south
of the Border. And with family connections involved, fathers and sons and
brothers, there was continuity of technical development, and a corresponding
family likeness in the external appearance of so many Scottish engines. We
are told, too, something of the history of the railways of Scotland. We are
reminded of the great races to the North over the West Coast and East Coast
Routes, in which the Scottish partners played so prominent a part. It was
on Scottish railways that the first 4-6-0 and the first four-cylinder locomotives
ran in Great Britain - forerunners of most significant developments in later
years.
Hill, Geoffrey
The Worsdells: a Quaker engineering dynasty. Glossop: Transport
Publishing, 1991. 181 pp.
Hodgson, James T. and Lake, C.S.
Hollingsworth, Brian
'LBSC' – his life and locomotives: Memorial edition: a pictorial
appreciation and biography of Lillian ('Curly') Lawrence. Frome: Camden
Miniature Steam Services. 1966. 108pp.
Both the biographer and his subject were interested in "live steam"
miniature railways, but Lawrence's skills as a model engineer extended far
beyond normal competence: hence he is included on this website.
Hooker, A.E. (Bert)
Nine Elms engineman. Truro: Bradford Barton, 124pp.
Born 2 July 1916. Fired West Country 34006 Bude during 1948
locomotive exchanges on Highland line
Hoole, K.
Hopkins, Philip
Great Western pictorial. Didcot: Wild Swan, 1995.
Ottley 17808
Hough, R.
Six great railwaymen: Stephenson, Hudson, Denison, Huish, Stephen and
Gresley. London, Hamish Hamilton, 1955. 200 p. + 6 plates. 6 illus. (ports.),
3 maps. Bibliog.
This work, which is intended for teenagers, contains fresh biographical
material gathered from Gresley's children. The author experiences difficulty
in technical terminology (e.g. valve gearing sic). George Stephen {KPJ thought
must have been an OCR error was a great Canadian pioneer]
Hughes, Stephen
The Brecon Forest tramroads: the archaeology of an early railway system.
Aberystwyth, 1990.
Rutherford states that this "is one
of the best works on any form of railway ever produced and is essential reading
for anyone interested in the precursors of the modern railway."
Hughes, W.J. and Thomas, Joseph L.
'The Sentinel': a history
of Alley & MacLellan and The Sentinel Waggon Works. Volume 1.
1875-1930. Newton Abbot, 1973. 320pp. 119 illus./diagrs.
Introduction by J.G.R. Woodvine whose father George Woodvine with
Daniel Simpson went from Shropshire to Polmadie, Glasgow to assist in the
construction of the first Sentinel steam wagon. Further consideration of
this important work, which needless to say is not available in Norfolk County
Library, even at King's Lynn which "specializes" in road locomotives, but
came from Peterborough.
Hutton, Walter S.
Steam boiler construction: a practical handbook. Crosby Lockwood,
1898.
Hyman, Anthony
Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer. Oxford University Press,
1982. 287pp.
Babbage, better known for his early development of mechanical computing
machinery, was also involved in two ways with the development of the broad
gauge: firstly by demolishing Dionysius Lardner's absurd theories relating
to Box Tunnel and secondly by developing the dynamometer car.
India. Pacific Locomotive Committee. Report. Delhi. 1939.
Committee which involved Stanier and E.S. Cox (held British
Library)
Industrial Locomotive Society
Steam locomotives in industry. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1967.
149 illustrations with captions. Indexes of places, manufacturers
and owners.
Irving, R.J.
The North Eastern Railway Company, 1870-1914: an economic history.
Leicester University Press, 1976. 68 tables in main text. 320pp + prelims
Jackson, Alan A.
London's Metropolitan Railway. Newton Abbot: David & Charles,
1986. 416pp. + plates.
An excellent history with copious notes. Rather thin on mechanical
history, but nonetheless essential reading for the locomotive
historian.
London's termini. Newton Abbot: David
& Charles, 1969/London: Pan Books, 1972. 395pp.
A magnificent history: includes some diagrams and a full
bibliography.
with Groome, D.F., Rails through the clay.
1962.
The railway dictionary. 4th ed. Stroud: Sutton. 2006.
"book remains an essential reference work": Tony Kirby J. Rly Canal
Hist. Soc., 2006, 35, 449.
Jackson, David
J.G. Robinson: a lifetime's work. Oxford: Oakwood, 1996. 234pp.
A thoroughly comprehensive biography but suffers from incomplete
bibliographical citations (it is to be hoped that the source material is
being housed in a suitable location). The index appears to include some errors
and lacked a strategic plan. The hard casing applied by the publisher to
this biography greatly enhances the value of the book.
James, Fred, David Hunt and Bob Essery
LMS locomotive profiles. No. 1 – the rebuilt 'Royal Scots'. Didcot:
Wild Swan, 1999. 60pp.
Many detailed drawings taken from collection at NRM.
James, P.D.
Time to be in earnest: a fragment of autobiography. London: Faber,
1999.
Jarvis, Adrian.
Samuel Smiles and the construction of Victorian values. Stroud: Sutton
Publishing, 1997. 176pp. +
plates.
Considered with Smiles
Jeaffreson, J.C.
Life of Robert Stephenson. London, 1864.
Ottley 2449
Jenkins, Stanley C.
The Melton Constable to Cromer branch. Oxford: Oakwood Press, 1991.
152pp. tables, illus. maps, plans.
Very detailed account of the vital link between West Runton and the
rest of the national network. Includes plans for the much grander station
which this centre of the universe really deserved.
Johnson, E.M.
Great Central locomotives. Volume 1. 1897-1914. Volume 2. 1912-British
Railways. Irwell Press, 1989/1992.
Philip Atkins notes the high quality of this
work.
Johnson, Peter.
The British travelling Post Office . Ian Allan, 1985.
Johnson, R.P.
The Steam Locomotive., 2nd ed. New York: Simmons Boardman, 1945.
Johnson, William
The Imperial cyclopædia of machinery, being a series of plans, sections
and elevations of stationary, marine and locomotive engines, spinning machinery,
etc. with descriptive letterpress, an essay on the steam engine, and a history
of the Railways of Great Britain. Glasgow, Edinburgh & London, 1852-6.
folio
Does not appear to be in Ottley: yet traced in BLPC, cited by David
Hunt in Midland Record No. 22
Jones, C.M. Jenkin
The North Eastern Railway: a Centenary story. York: British Railways
North Eastern Region, 1954. 32pp.
Jones, R.B.
British narrow gauge railways. London, A. & C. Black, 1958. viii,
110 p. + front. + 22 plates. 34 illus.
Jones, Stephen K.
Brunel in South Wales. Volume 1. In Trevithick's tracks. Stroud:
Tempus, 2005. 224pp.
"this is the work of a historian of the highest calibre": Martin Barnes
J Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2005, 35, 208.
Jordan, Arthur and Elisabeth
Away for the day: the railway excursion in Britain, 1830 to the present
day. Kettering: Silver Link, 1991. 256pp.
Contents: Early excursions; To Hell on Sunday; Buns, bagpipes and
Bovril; The railway children; Off to the races; Football, flying and other
'sports' [including bare-knuckle fighting, hangings, bonspiels (curling),
solar eclipse of 29 June 1927]; Trip day (works, especially railway works
outings); Alive with excursion trains [Belle Vue, Crystal Palace...]; Politics,
religion and temperance; Royalty, fairs and wakes; See the scenery [long
distance excursions, e.g. to Staffa, ramblers, excursions; The sound of music
[steam specials and even diesel specials]; Too awful to describe [accidents];
Did it pay?; Behind the scenes Chapter 12 See the scenery contains
one of the very few references to the Heads of Ayr route to Girvan: "In Scotland,
the LMSR introduced Evening Cruise trains in 1935, the first running from
Glasgow to Alloway, where an hour was allowed to visit Bums' cottage and
the kirk of Tam o' Shanter fame. The train then cruised 'at sightseeing speed'
along the grass- strewn goods-only line, closed to passengers five years
previously. Panoramic views of the Firth of Clyde were enjoyed on the way
to Girvan, where another hour's break was allowed, before returning to Glasgow
by a different route through Maybole. This 120-mile rail cruise cost only
2s 6d."
Kalla-Bishop, P.M.
Locomotives at war: army reminiscences of the Second World War. Truro:
Bradford Barton, [1980]. 151pp. + 8 plates.
Military railways at Martin Mill (serving artillery for Cross-Channel
shelling), Longmoor, Melbourne, Shropshire & Montgomeryshire, and briefly
service in Northern Ireland, and lengthier service in North Africa and in
Italy. Many observations on USA 0-6-0Ts, S160 2-8-0s and on Dean Goods.
Kardas, Handel.
Portrait of the Terriers. Shepperton: Ian Allen, 1999. 128pp.
Mainly pictorial: much covers presevation, but the activities of the
class on other railways after sale by the LBSCR/SR is extensive.
Kidner, R.W.
See as author/publisher
A short history of mechanical traction and travel. v. 2. Rail. Chislehurst
(Kent), Oakwood Press, 1947. [vi], 150 p. + front.+ 39 plates. 350 illus.
(mcI. 260 thumb-nail sketches). Bibliog.
A collection of four separate works. Most were also published separately,
viz: "The early history of the railway locomotive, 1804-1879" (1946); "The
development of the railway locomotive, 1880-1946" (1946), "The railway carriage,
1825-1946" (1946); and "The multiple unit trains, railmotors & tramoars,
1829-1947." The thumb-nail sketches are poorly executed.
Kieve, Jeffrey
The electric telegraph: a social and economic history. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1973. 310pp.
Cited in the Oxford Companion in the section on telegraphy, and noting
the publisher, the reader might expect this to cover the use of telegraphy
on railways in some depth. This is not the case: the book provides an excellent
history of telegraphy, including its early use on the Great Western Railway
(arrest John Tawell, etc), but it is mainly concerned with its exploitation
by the Post Office, and the activities of its major officials, notably F.J.
Scudamore. Equally surprisingly, Daniel Gooch receives little attention in
the development of submarine cables (but this work was prepared before the
easy availability of Daniel Gooch's Diaries: there is almost as much about
the development of rubber and gutta percha as insulants.
Kitson Clark, E.
Kitsons of Leeds, 1837-1937: a firm and its folk. London, Locomotive
Publishing Co., [1937]. [iv], 185 p. + front. (port.) + 36 plates (incl.
5 folding). 59 illus. (incl. 8 ports.), 10 diagrs., 2 tables, map
Klapper, C.F.
Sir Herbert Walker's Southern Railway. London: Ian Allan, 1973.
Lambert, R.S.
The railway king, 1800-1971: a study of George Hudson and the business
morals of his times. London: Allen & Unwin, 1934. 320pp.
Ottley 5211 (but actually read)
Larkin, Edgar J. .
Memoirs of a railway engineer. London: Mechanical Engineering
Publications, 1979. 212pp. See also Larkin page
Latham, John Herbert
Construction of wrought iron bridges, embracing the practical application
of the principles of mechanics to wrought iron girder work ... with numerous
detail plates.. Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1858.
Layson, J.F.
George Stephenson, the locomotive and the railway. London, 1881.
Ottley 2437
The Stephensons and other railway pioneers. London, 1881.
Ottley 2438: George and Robert Stephenson; also
Trevithick, Hedley, Hackworth and Brunel
Leconte
Treatise on railways. 1839.
Notes development of screw coupling
Leleux, S.A.
Brotherhoods, engineers. Dawlish: David & Charles, 1965. 85pp.
Ottley 10178
Lewin, H.G.
Early British railways: a short history of their origin and development,
1801-44. 1925. 8 maps (4 in colour, some folding).
Brief chronological description of railways, 1801-36; followed by
a year by year account of traffic development, noting particularly the connexion
of Parliamentary control and the Board of' Trade.
The railway mania and its aftermath, 1835-1842. 1936.
Sequel end generally similar to the above. Gives a general picture
of the period's railway atmosphere. 13 coloured maps (some folding) trace
the development.
Lewis, Brian
The Cabry family: railway engineers. Mold: Railway & Canal Historical
Society, 1994. 112pp.
Lewis, M.J.T.
The Pentewan Railway. Truro: D.B. Barton, 1960.
Ottley 7174
Leyendecker, Liston E.
Palace Car prine: a biography of George Mortimer Pullman. University
of Colorado, c1992.
Checked L of C catalog
Lloyd, Roger.
Farewell to steam. London, Allen & Unwin, 1956. 128 p. + front.
The fascination of railways. London, Allen & Unwin, 1951. 160
p. + col. front. + 16 plates. 21 illus.
Both are collected essays (and very good ones): deserve to be better
known.
LOCOMOTIVE and Allied Manufacturers' Association of Great Britain.
British locomotives. London, L.A.M.A. [1961?] .88 p. 136 illus. (incl.
29 col.), 9 diagrs. (inc. 1 col.).
Trade brochure.
Locomotive Magazine
Locomotive of today: reprinted with additions and revisions from the
'Locomotive Magazine'. London. 1899. 178pp.
Ottley 3023 (cited location SLS Library): seen
copy for sale Octagon Books Ely: signed R.S. McNaught
Long, P.J. and Awdry, W.V.
The Bristol & Gloucester Railway. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1987.
305pp.
Ottley 18561: praises sung letter by Kelvin White in
Br. Rly.
J., 1992, 5 88.
Longworth, Hugh
British Railway [sic] steam locomotives 1948-1968. Oxford Publishing
Co. (Ian Allan). 320pp.
Title is odd, very odd. Copy borrowed from Millennium Library in Norwich.
Martin Barnes in excessively kind review (J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc.,
2005, 35, 206) notes that its a bit like the Ian Allan ABCs in layout
(but not the A4 page size). The illustrations cover most classes but are
not comprehensive (unlike the numerical listing 1 to 92250). Not without
a large number of minor errors: it is obvious that author only has a vague
notion of what went on in East Anglia: for instance it is inferred that the
Sentinel Y10 was a "Great Eastern" design. Although this may appear to have
been a book on a mega scale and at a mega price about locomotive numbers
it fails miserably on the vastly complex numbering of the WD 2-8-0s and 2-10-0s
which in the early days of British Railways wandered around with all sorts
of numbers. See Richard Strange review
in Steam World, 2005 (218) p. 64 which finds several errors and
omissions from sources...
McGowan, Christopher
The Rainhill Trials: the greatest contest of industrial Britain and the
birth of commercial rail. London: Little, Brown, 2004. 380pp.
A "popular book" but one which cites its sources reflecting the scholarly
nature of its author, a Canadian professor of zoology. It also covers much
more ground than that stated in the title, including some highly illuminating
comments on the genius of George Stephenson, and of the nature of the other
competitors and their locomotives. The index looks good, but isn't.
McGregor, John
The West Highland Railway: plans, politics and people. Edinburgh:
John Donald, 2005. 274pp.
In Millennium "Library" in Norwich: excellent book, but not relevant
to Steamindex, nor to Norfolk: motive power is only noted in terms of limited
accommodation for enginemen at Fort William.
MacLean, J.S.
The locomotives of the North Eastern Railway, 1841-1922. Newcastle:
R. Robinson & Co., [c.1923]. [vi], 120 p.+ front. 66 illus.,53diagrs.(s.
els.), tables.
Based to some extent on an earlier work on the same subject published
by the author in 1906.
The Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, 1825-1862. Newcastle-upon-Tyne:
R. Robinson, 1948.
Ottley 7038.
Macnair, Miles
William James (1771-1837): the man who discovered George Stephenson.
Oxford: Railway & Canal Historical Society, 2007. 144pp.
McShane, Charles
Modern locomotive valves and valve gears. Chicago: Griffiths &
Winters, 1917.
Verified via Library of Congress catalog
Maggs, Colin
The Bristol & Gloucester Railway. Oakwood, 1969..
Ottley 12351.
The Mangotsfield to Bath branch. Oxford: Oakwood, 1992.
Ottley 18581 see BRJ No. 55 page
262 for additional material.
Marlow, Norman
Footplate and signal cabin.
Includes extracts from Joy's Diaries
Marshall, C.F. Dendy
See Dendy Marshall (style adopted by
Ottley)
Marshall, William Prime
Description of the patent locomotive steam engine of Robert Stephenson
& Co., with four elaborate engravings and numerous woodcuts of details.
London, 1838.
Ottley 2925
Maskelyne,
J.N.
A further selection of locomotives I have known. London: Percival
Marshall, 1962.
Ottley 2913: further 33 (see below)
Locomotives I have known. London: Percival Marshall, 1959. 133pp.
Ottley 2901: 66 locomotives described with scale drawings.
Landscape format..
Mason, Eric
The Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway in the twentieth century. London,
Ian Allan, 1954. [viii] ,236 p. incl. 32 plates + col. front. + fold;ng plate.
103 illus.,14 diagrs., 2 plans, 10 maps.
[Rivington], pseud.
My life with locomotives: a retired locomotive engineer looks back.
London, Ian Allan,1962. 168 p. + 22 plates (incl. 2 folding). 53 illus.,
4 diagrs.
The pseudonym was unveiled by E.S. Cox on p. 3 of his Locomotive
panorama (v.1.).
Metcalfe, Richard.
Davies & Metcalfe Ltd: railway engineers to the world. 1999. 208
pp. 142 illus.
Middlemass, Thomas
Encyclopaedia of narrow gauge railways in Great Britain and Ireland.
London: Guild, 1991. 272pp.
Includes Isle of Man Railway and Jersey Railways & Tramways and
the two major miniature railways: R&ER and RH&DR, some industrial
and some military railways.
The Scottish 4-4-0. Penryn: Atlantic, 1994. 128pp.
Contains many illustrations: each major company (CR, NBR, GSWR, HR
and GNoSR) is allocated a chapter - thus Dugald Drummond's contribution appears
in more than one place. There is a fair amount of biographical information
and there are introductory and retrospective chapters as well as a section
on Post-Grouping immigrants, such as the highly unpopular GNR classes, and
the type translated to South of the Thames, notably by James Stirling and
Dugald Drummond. More unexpectedly, there is a chapter on the 4-4-0T type.
There is a short reading list graced with the title of "bibliography": McKillop
who had vehement views on the GNR 4-4-0 type and made a D49 work like a Schools
class is not mentioned. Alphabetico-classified index.
Minnis, John
New century on the South Eastern & Chatham Railway.
Upper Bucklebury: Wild Swan. 1985.
Ottley 18856: 40pp album still available for sale: try Amazon!
Moffat, Hugh
East Anglia's first railways: Peter Bruff and the Eastern Union Railway.
Lavenham: Terence Dalton, 1987. 228pp.
Morgan, Brian
Railways: civil engineering. London: Longman, 1971.
A very serviceable book with quite a good bibliography which must
be castigated for directing the user away from
Ottley in favour of Bryant. Widely available
secondhand as Arrow Book (paperpack edition: 1973)..
Morgan, Bryan
The railway-lover's companion. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1963.
555pp.
Compared with Simmons'
Railways: an anthology.
Morgan, John Scott.
The Colonel Stephens railways: a pictorial history. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1978. 96pp. Bibliog.
Morriss, Richard
The archaeology of railways. Stroud (Gloucs): Tempus. 1999.
Author worked at Ironbridge Gorge Museum: further one gets from Midlands
the weaker the book becomes. Major error on caption of B1 leaving Newcastle
in "sometime in the 1930s"!. (Fig. 11).
Mountford, Colin E.
The Private Railways of County Durham. Industrial Railway Society,
2004.
Mountford, Eric
Caerphilly works, 1901-1964. Hatch End: Roundhouse, 1965.
Ottley 11997. Described as "excellent" by Bob Crawley in
Br Rly J. (9), 351
The Cardiff Railway. Oakwood.
For Backtrack review see
1 189
Mullay, A.J.
See also authorship
London's Scottish railways: LMS & LNER. Stroud (Gloucs): Tempus.
2005. 157pp.
Non-stop! London to Scottish steam. Gloucester: Allan Sutton, 1989.
120pp.
Ottley 18174
Rails across the Border: the story of Anglo-Scottish railways.
Wellingborough: Patrick Stevens, 1990.
Scottish Region: a history 1948-1973. Stroud: Tempus, 2006.
Well received by Geoffrey Hughes: J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc.,
2006, 35, 451.
Streamlined steam: Britain's 1930s luxury expresses. David & Charles,
1994. 128pp.
Nash, George C.
The LMS at War. London: LMS, 1946. 88pp.
Includes col. front. and plates by Norman Wilkinson including LMS
express (with red black 5?) being bombed at Bletchley and LMS steamers at
St Valery evacuating troops.
Neele, George P.
Railway reminiscences. 1904.
Ottley 6348: reprinted
in 1974 with an introduction by Jack Simmons: this is interesting for its
insights into Victorian railway working (Neele completed his service with
the LNWR as Superintendent of the Line). Thus we have Neele's impressions
of the Rqailwy Races to Edinburgh in 1888, the gradual trend towards
standardization in matters like brakes, locomotive headlamp codes, telegraphic
codes and the vital role of the Railway Clearing House. The conveyance of
Her Imperial Majesty's Royal Mail is quite alein to those fed on a diet of
junk mail: Neele regarded Mail as a tantamount activity. Notes that
Mr Spagnoletti of the GWR introduced the arbitray words, such asd STORK:
we have no trace of your invoice, send copy next train and FLAMINGO: following
wanted for today's market. Page 276 refers to the Clark and Webb Chain Brake
and its non acceptance by the Board of Trade. His term of tenure included
a visit to the United States and a great deal to do with Roayal travel
arrangements..
Nicholson, Peter
Flying Scotsman: the world's most travelled steam locomotive. Shepperton:
Ian Allan, 1999. 112pp.
Mainly its long career as a preserved locomotive
Nicolson, Murdoch and O'Neill, M.
Glasgow: locomotive builder to the world. Glasgow Public Libraries.
1987
Fetches absurd prices on ABEBOOKS
Nock, Oswald
Steven
Norden, G.
Landscapes under the luggage rack: great paintings of Britain.
Northampton, author, 1997.
The railway carriage panel (includes Hamilton Ellis's
contribution.
Norris, John, Beale, Gerry and Lewis, John
Edwardian enterprise: a review of Great Western Railway development in
the first decade of this century. Didcot: Wild Swan, 1987. 202pp.
Coffee table (Camp presumably) format in pseudo Edawrdian style (including
rather jaded type). The several major new lines, rolling stock and locomotives
(by Beale) are surveyed.
Nutty, Ernest J.
G.W.R. two-cylinder piston-valve locomotives. 3rd ed.. Swindon: Author.,
1977. 107pp.
Ottley 10591: see letter by Graham
Beare BRJ 38 p.396
Oeynhausen, Carl von and Dechen, Heinrich
von
Railways in England, 1826 and 1827; translated by E.A. Forward; edited
by Charles E. Lee in collaboration with K.R. Gilbert. Cambridge: Heffer for
the Newcomen Society, 1971. x, 83 p.. 6 plates; map. (Newcomen Society for
the Study of the History of Engineering and Technology. Extra publications.
No. 7.)
Originally published as Ueber Schienenwege in England: Bemerkungen
gesammelt auf einer Reise in den Jahren 1826 und 1827. Berlin: Reimer,
1829. See also two Newcomen Society papers:
E.A. Forward on his initial translation
in Volume 29, page 1 et seq and K.R.
Gilbert A note on Railways in England
Ottley, George
Bibliography of British Railway history. London: HMSO, 1966
A bibliography of British Railway history. 2nd ed. London: HMSO, 1983.
Ottley's bibliography of British railway history. Second supplement
12957-19605. National Railway Museum with Railway and Canal Historical
Society. Further info
Pambour, Guyonneau (Comte de)
Practical treatise on locomotive engines upon railways. London: John
Weale, London, 1836.
Difficult to find in original Ottley volume as filed under Guyonneau
(2930), but usually cited as Pambour (e.g. Ahrons). Originally published
in French, in France. Very important for early locomotive history.
Parkin, Dean with C.R. Temple
Bygone Yarmouth: an A to Z. Carlton Colville: Rushmere, 1990.
Good example of obscure publication which contains several "Archive"
type of pictures. As well as showing trams in the Market Square it shows
(page 4) an LD&ECR wagon on Hall Quay c1910 and salt wagons: coal &
salt were essential for the fishing industry.
Pearce, Thomas R.
The Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Historical
Model Railway Society. 250pp.
Full description in section
on early locomotives
Peck, Alan Stanley
The Great Western at Swindon Works. Poole: Oxford Publishing Co, 1983.
281pp.
Ottley 17941: see appreciation by
Blakemore BackTrack, 14, 250
Peel, Dave
Locomotive headboards: the complete story. Stroud: Sutton Publishing,
2006. 294pp.
The title is rather less than "not quite true", as the book is largely
confined to those headboards fitted to "official named trains", the paradigm
being the Flying Scotsman. Thus well-known headboards such as those
associated with Pegler's Northern Rubber Company specials are not included.
The author appears to have missed the rather good series of articles by
William Cattermole in Steam Wld,
2005 (notably in Issue 218 beginning on page 26) wherein he notes how
he designed headboards for Eastern Region, although on page 207 Peel does
note that Cattermole, as well as Peter Smith and Peter Townend, were responsible
for designing headboards under the general direction of L.P. Parker. The
book suffers from being based on a region by region basis rather than being
chronological: this also leads to The Master Cutler being in two different
sections (in back-to-front order).. Insufficient attention is paid to the
practice originating in destination headboards and the decoration of locomotives
for special events. There are some excellent and interesting photographs,
but an edition in html would be far easier to use. For instance, on page
170 there is the well-known photograph of Eric Gill fitting his design of
the Flying Scotsman headboard to No. 4475 Flying Fox at King's
Cross on 21 November 1932. Other difficult to trace photographs are one of
34059 Sir Archibald Sinclair with The Norfolkman headboard
at Norwich in May 1949. An Imperial Airways Special Train headboard
with that Company's symbol is shown (page 74) fitted to T9 No. 338 at Victoria
about to leave the special air terminal platform for Southampton on 6 June
1939...
Phillipson, E.A.
Essays of a locomotive man. London, Locomotive Publishing Co.,[19
]. [viii], 143 p. + front. + folding plate. .11 illus., 12 diagrs., 5
tables.
A collection of varied material from the
Locomotive
Steam locomotive design: data and formulae. London, Locomotive Publishing
Co., 1936. 444 p. + front. + 31 plates (incl. 30 folding). illus., 88 diagrs.,
67 tables.
A textbook. Originally published in the Locomotive between
1929 and 1935.
The steam locomotive in traffic. London, Locomotive Publishing Co.,
[1949]. [iv] ,252 p., + iv p. adverts. + front. + 25 plates (incl. 17 folding).
64 illus., 55 diagrs., 8 tables, 3 plans.
Pike, Jim.
Locomotive names: an illustrated dictionary. Stroud: Sutton, 2000.
199pp.
See Locomotive names
Pole, F. :
Felix Pole : his book. Bracknell (Berks.), Town & Country Press.
234 p. illus.
Pollock, D.R. and White, D.E.,
compilers.
The 2-8-0 & 2-10-0 locomotives of the War Department, 1939-1945: Stanier
L.M.S. type 2-8-0; British Austerity 2-8-0; British Austerity 2-10-0; Robinson
L.N.E.R. class O4 2-8-0. Rly Obsr., 1946, 16 Supplement No.5.
40 p. + 4 plates. 9 illus., 2 diagrs.
Listed as monograph: Ottley 3056
Porter, Lindsey
Leek & Manifold Light Railway. Ashbourne: Asbourne Editions, 2002.
96pp.
All illustrations, but most of which are informative rather than
decorative. Includes portraits of Everard R. Calthrop, John B. Earle and
Godfrey Brewer, as well of locomotives.
Poultney, Edward Cecil
See also Authorship
British express locomotive development, 1896-1948. London: Allen &
Unwin, 1952. 174pp.
Very brief preface by R.A. Riddles. Began as a series of articles
in Modern Transport entitled Landmarks of express locomotive progress
published between 1947 and 1950. Starting date selected on basis of railway
races to Aberdeen.
Steam locomotion: the construction, working
principles, and practical operation of steam locomotives, edited by C.R.H.
Simpson. London, Caxton, 1951.2 v. (viii, 329 + vi, 333 p) + 39 plates (incl.
1 col. & 7 folding). 118 illus., 287 diagrs., 7 tables.
Both E.C. Poultney and C.R.H. Simpson were experts in this field of
technical writing. A work of encyclopaedic proportions.
Powell, A[lec] J[ohn]
Living with London Midland locomotives. London: Ian Allan,
1977.156pp.
Originally published in Trains Illustrated under the pseudonym of
45671 and entered in that form in Jones.
The monograph version includes a short biographical introduction: he
was an engineering apprentice at Derby (he was interviewed by E.S. Cox) and
subsequently obtained an engineering degree. Chapter 1 Boyhood 9; Chapter
2 Derby apprentice (covered in greater detail in Derby apprentice
Trains Illustrated Annual
1959. ; Chapter 3 The mechanical iInspectors: the CME's Link with
motive power; Chapter 4 The Fowler Legacy; Chapter 5 The Stanier influence
and beyond; Chapter 6 Class 5 — the engineman's friend; Chapter 7 Pony
trucks to the fore; Chapter 8: The "Patriots" and "Jubilees". Trains
ill., 1958, 11, 142-8. 4 illus., 2 tables. (Living with L.M.S.
locomotives-3). Chapter 9 A trio of high-born ladies. Trains ill.,
1958, 11, 231-9. 3 illus., 2 tables. (Living with L.M.S.
locomotives— 4).(Pacific classes): Chapter 10 The strong pull. Trains
ill., 1958, 11, 600-6. 2 illus., table. (Living with L.M.S.
locomotives-6) (8F and other freight locomotives); Chapter 11/Good Both Ways;
Chapter 12 The lively 'Royal Scots'; Chapter 13 BR Standard Locomotives:
the aim and the reality; Chapter 14 CME Unrecognised
(Powell's virtual reality)
Stanier locomotive classes. London: Ian
Allan, 1991. 96pp.
A4 format: each locomotive class is considered individually.
Pratley, Ron
Locomotives of the Hull & Barnsley Railway. HMRS, 2000. 48 pp.
4 col. plates, 17 line drawings, 56 illus.
Pratt, E.A.
British Railways and the Great War. 1921. 2v.
Author had access to official information, Covers all aspects from
the preparations for war in 1912 until the end of control, 1921. In addition
to a general survey there is a short ,account for each major railway. Illus
include portraits. maps. Along with Wittgenstein's Philosophical
Investigations this is one of the most absurd omissions from the Norwich
village library..
Price, J.H.
Tramcar, carriage & wagon builders of Birmingham: a short history
of the rolling stock trade in the West Midlands, with notes on associated
companies elsewhere. Author, 1982. 64pp.
Ottley 16082
Pringle, J.W.
Report on the derailment of a passenger train, which occurred on the 24th
August, 1927, near Sevenoaks on the Southern Railway. Ministry of Transport:
Railway accidents [monograph]. London, H.M.S.O., 1928. 38 p. 5 diagrs. (incl.
s. & f./r. els.), 6 tables, plan.
Gresley criticised the riding qualities of the tank engines on curves
at high speed plus the vibration experienced with the 4-6-0.
Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS).
Ransome-Wallis, P., editor
The concise encyclopaedia of world railway
locomotives. London: Hutchinson, 1959. 512 pp. incl. 144 plates (incl.
16 col.) 324 illus., 111 diagrs. Bibliog.
Also reprinted in USA in 2001 by Dover [Press] as Illustrated
encyclopedia of world railway locomotives without colour illus. The
work is a series of non-alphabetized, signed contributions by G.F. Allen.
H.M. Le Fleming (including an excellent chapter (11) of potted biographies),
D.P. Morgan, J.M. Doherty, C.R.H. Simpson (on steam locomotive design)
which Duffy considers to be excellent (see his
bibliography), S.O. Ell., O.S. Nock and F.J.G. Haut. In scope, it is
neither confined to steam nor to Britain. Contributions vary in style and
technical depth (S.O. Ell's contribution is at an advanced technical level).
A glossary of steam locomotive terminology and an excellent, but not
comprehensive bibliography are included. The work filled a very large gap
in locomotive literature, but could be improved by the provision of sectional
bibliographies, a general index and a more thorough approach to the history
of the subject, (although biography is not neglected).
Ratcliffe, R.L.
The Canterbury & Whitstable Railway.. London: Locomotive Club
of Great Britain, 1980. 24pp.
Ottley 12484
Reed, Malcolm C.
The London & North Western Railway: a history. Penryn: Atlantic.
1996. 248pp.
Extensive bibliography; better than average index, perhaps excessively
condensed. One of the very best books on railways in the past two decades
(2008)
Reynolds, Michael
Continuous railway brakes: a practical treatise. London 1882.
Ottley 3232: notes that includes a historical survey.
Locomotive engine-driving: a practical manual for engineers in charge
of locomotive engines. London: 1877-
Ottley 4032: 8th edition 1888.
Engine-driving life: or, stirring adventures in the lives of locomotive
engine-drivers. London: 1881.
Ottley 4042. 3rd edition 1894.
Rich, Fred
Yesterday once more: a story of Brighton steam. Bromley: P.E.
Waters & Associates, 1996. 168pp.
van Riemsdijk, J.T.
Compound locomotives: an International survey. Penryn: Atlantic
Press, 1994. 140pp.
Book based mainly on three part paper presented to
Newcomen Society: Part 1 see Volume 43
page 1 et seq. Some developments, notably involvement of Delaware
& Hudson Railroad in compounding with high pressure boilers, receive
little attention. Chap. 8: British four cylinder compounds. Webb (fairly
critical appraisal); Hoy's successful 0-8-0s on the LYR; Walter Smith's highly
successful 4-4-2s on the NER; the unsuccessful Ivatt 4-4-2; Hughes' promising
4-6-0 on the LMS and Gresley's high-pressure locomotive No. 10000
Robbins, Michael
George and Robert Stephenson. Oxford University Press, 1966. 64pp.
Excellent brief biograhies
Robertson, Charles James Alan
The origins of the Scottish railway system, 1728-1844.
"A very finely finished work: the best historical account yet produced
of the history of railways in any part of Great Briatin".
[Jack Simmons, Oxford Companion]. Further
appreciation by Rutherford
(Backtrack 14,
541).
Robertson, Kevin
Leader: the full story. Stroud: Allan Sutton,
1995. 123pp + 128pp.
Published with Leader and Southern experimental steam (originally
published in 1990): this latter part includes many photographs taken by John
Click.
Leader: steam's last chance. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1988. 123pp.
New edition: The Leader Project: fiasco or triumph? published
OPC 2007
Odd corners of the GWR from the days of steam. Sutton, 1999. 146pp.
An odd book with a very large number of pictures of a petrol railcar
introduced in 1912, pictures of upper quadrant signals converted from "standard"
lower quadrant signals after nationalization, and concrete signal posts courtesy
of W. Marriott.
Rolt, Lionel Thomas Carswell (Tom) (1910-74)
Rous-Marten,
Charles
British locomotive practice & performance: extracts from the pioneering
Railway Magazine articles of 1902-1908; ed. Charles
Fryer. Wellingborough: Patrick Stephens, 1990. 158pp.
Rowse, A.L.
The diaries; edited Richard Ollard. Allen Lane, 2003. 462pp.
The diaries are of interest because (i) he makes an interesting comment
on Sir Ralph Wedgwood and (ii)
he new Jack Simmons moderately well and his comments are incorporated in
the section on Simmons and his work.
Rush, R.W.
See also note under authorship based on
an obituary
British steam railcars. Tarrant Hinton: Oakwood, 1989. (Locomotion
Papers 53).142pp. + addenda and corrigenda (2pp)
Owes much to a paper by Hurry Riches (one of the many
omissions from Oxford Companion)
The Furness Railway: 1843-1923. Oakwood Press, 1973. 113pp.
Ottley 11707: copy seen had a 64pp Supplement:
Furnace Railway locomotives and rolling stock.
Russell, J.H.
See separate page
Rutherford, Michael
See separate page
Science Museum, London
The British railway locomotive: a brief pictorial history
of the first fifty years of the British steam railway locomotive,
1803-1853; compiled by G.W. Westcott. London: HMSO, 1958.
Handbook of the collections illustrating land transport. [Part] 3. Railway
locomotives and rolling stock, by E.A. Forward. Part I. A historical
review. London, H.M.S.O., 1931. 100 p. + front. + 24 plates. 48 illus.
9 pp. describe the 1920-1930 period.
Handbook of the collections illustrating land transport. [Part] 3. Railway
locomotives and rolling stock, by E.A. Forward. Part 2. Descriptive
catalogue. London, H.M.S.O., 1931. 119 p. + 12 plates. 24 illus.
Semmens, Peter W.B.
A century of railways through the pages of 'Railway Magazine' and paintings
from members of the Guild of Railway Artists. Sparkford: OPC, 1996.
96pp.
Landscape format: Pages 7 to 14 give an excellent historical sketch
of the Railway Magazine, it Editors, Publishers and a few of the major
contributors, notably C.J. Allen and Nock. This is followed by a relatively
short section of brief extracts from the Magazine which fail to capture
either the central character of the journal or the changing nature of that
character. Finally there is a selection of art from the Guild of Railway
Artists. These are well reproduced, but fail to mesh with the rest of the
book which is really two books. The end papers display a representative
collection of covers, at least two of which make one wonder how they sold
as a bookstall magazine!
History of the Great Western Railway. Vol. 2. The thirties, 1930-39.
London Allen & Unwin, 1985.
Includes an extensive analysis of the proposal by Merz & McLellan
to electrify the lines west of Taunton (including the Brixham, Newquay branches
and the china clay lines), a pair of air-conditioned coaches (using ice as
the coolant), and of the creative accounting methods used to pay dividends
during the period.
and Goldfinch, A.J.
How steam locomotives really work. Oxford University Press, 2000.
348pp.
Excellent introduction.
Shepherd, W. Ernest
The Dublin & South Eastern Railway. Newton Abbott: David &
Charles. 1974. 231pp.
Simmons, Jack
See separate page
with Gordon Biddle
The Oxford companion to British railway history.
See separate entry
Simpson, C.R.H. and Roberts, F.B.
Locomotives and their working... London, Virtue, 1952. 2 v. (viii,
561 p.) + 2 folding fronts. + 12 plates (incl. 4 col. & 8 folding). 86
illus., 271 diagrs.
A textbook for enginemen.
Singer, Charles
History of Technology. Oxford University Press, 1958. 5 v.
A major reference work. Hamilton
Ellis wrote chapter on the development of railway engineering in Volume 5.
Pickles, S.S. Production and utilization of rubber. Chapter 31 also in Volume
5. 752-75.
Skellon, Peter W.
Steam locomotive lubrication: its development and practice.
Barrow-in-Furness: MIC Publications, 1997. 160pp. diagrs., illus., table.
bibliography.
Slinn, J.N.
The Great Western Railway: the Great Western way. HMRS, 1978.
See Ottley 11787 for what appears to be a complex publication
first published in 1967 and published in a much larger version in 1978.
Smith, David L.
Locomotives of the Glasgow and South Western Railway. Newton Abbot:
David & Charles, 1976. 192pp.
Smith, Martin
Britain's light railways. Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1994. 192pp,
An extremely useful reference work complete with a modest Bibliography
and an excellent Introduction which enumerates the relatively extensive
legislation relating to light railways. The book excludes street-based systems
and miniature railways. The following are described: 1 Amesbury & Military
Camp Light Railway 2 Ashover Light Railway 3 Avonmouth Light Railway 4 Axaninster
& Lyme Regis Light Railway 5 Bankfoot Light Railway 6 Barton & Immingham
Light Railway 7 Basingstoke & Alton Light Railway 8 Bentley & Bordon
Light Railway 9 Bere Alston & Calstock Light Railway 10 Bideford, Westward
Ho! & Appledore Railway 11 Brackenhill Light Railway 12 Burry Port &
Gwendraeth Valley Railway 13 Cairn Valley Light Railway 14 Campheltown &
Machrihanish Light Railway 15 Cawood, Wistow & Selby Light Railway 16
Cleobury Mortimer & Ditton Priors Light Railway 17 Corringham Light Railway
18 Derwent Valley Light Railway 19 Dornoch Light Railway 20 Easingwold Railway
21 East Kent Light Railway 22 Edge Hill Light Railway 23 Elliot Junction
& Carmyllie Light Railway 24 Elsenham & Thaxted Light Railway 25
Festiniog Railway 26 Firbeck Light Railway 27 Fraserburgh & St Combs
Light Railway 28 Gifford & Garvald Railway 29 Goole & Marshland Light
Railway and Isle of Axholme Light Railway 30 Grimsby District Light Railway
31 Kelvedon, Tiptree & Tollesbury Pier Light Railway 32 Kent & East
Sussex Light Railway 33 Kingsnorth Light Railway 34 Lampeter, Aberayron &
New Quay Light Railway 35 Lauder Light Railway 36 Leadhills & Wanlockhead
Light Railway 37 Leek & Manifold Light Railway 38 Lowca Light Railway
39 Maidens & Dunure Light Railway 40 Mawddwy Light Railway 41 Mid-Suffolk
Light Railway 42 Nidd Valley Light Railway 43 North Devon & Cornwall
Light Railway 44 North Lindsey Light Railway 45 North Sunderland Railway
46 Ponteland Light Railway 47 Sand Hutton Light Railway 48 Sheppey Light
Railway 49 Shropshire & Montgomeryshire Light Railway 50 South Shields,
Marsden & Whitburn Colliery Railway 51 Tanat Valley Light Railway 52
Tickhill Light Railway 53 Totton, Hythe & Fawley Light Railway 54 Vale
of Rheidol Light Railway 55 Welsh Highland Railway 56 Welshpool & Lianfair
Light Railway 57 Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Light Railway 58
Wick & Lybster Light Railway 59 Wrington Vale Light Railway.
Smithers, Mark
An illustrated history of 18 inch gauge steam railways. Sparkford:
Oxford Publishing Co., 1992. 176pp.
Lines were constructed to this gauge at Crewe an Horwich Locomotive
Works, notably at the Royal Arsenal in Woolwich, and at Chatham Dock Yard.
The Sand Hutton Light Railway also employed this gauge. Some former euipment
has been used in preserved lines, notably at Bicton Woodlands. The John Knowles
& Co. (Wooden Box) Ltd at Woodville in Leicestershire is also
described.
Snell, S.
A story of railway pioneers: being an account of the inventions and works
of Isaac Dodds and his son, Thomas Weatherburn Dodds. London, 1921.
Ottley 2846. Ransom's Iron road is
critical of this work.
Somers, A.J.
The steam locomotive—how it works and how it is driven [in]:
St. John, J., editor.
Britain's railways today. London, Naldrett, 1954,192 p. incl.front.&
46 plates. 98 illus., 17 diagrs., 2 tables.
A series of signed articles by railway officials.
Stead, Christopher
The birth of the steam locomotive – a new history. Haddenham:
Fern House, 2002. 115pp.
See also under authorship
Steel, Ernest A. and Steel, Elenora H. The
miniature world of Henry Greenly. Kings Langley: Model & Allied
Publications, 1973. 251pp.
Not without errors: on page 55 it refers to a meeting with Bowen-Cooke
at Derby (and visit to Willans' engineering works): thus must have been
Rugby!
Steel, George MacLennan
Dundee's iron horses... Edinburgh, 1974.
Full
details.
Steel, Wilfred L.
The history of the London & North Western Railway. London, 1914.
502.pp.
Ottley 6353
Stephen, R.D.
Steam supreme: recollections of Scottish railways in the 1920s. Truro:
Bradford Barton. 151pp.
Son of the manse: commuted across Forth Bridge to school in Edinburgh
from 1915. Includes some very interesting photographs,.
Stephenson Locomotive Society.
Caledonian Railway centenary (1847-1947). London, SLS, 1947. 75p.
+ 2 folding plates
Railway progress, 1909-1959. v.1. London, S.L.S., [1960]. [viii],
139 p. + 24 plates. 65 illus., 2 tables.
A review of locomotive development: mostly British, mainly
steam.
Stokes, Ken.
Both sides of the footplate. Truro: Bradford Barton, [1985?]
Stretton, Clement Edwin
See authorship for warning
Summerson, Stephen
Midland Railway locomotives. Volume 1. General survey. Clophill:
Irwell Press, 2000. 154p.
Does not appear to be in BLPC, but available Amazon Books and in stock
Luton PL (when its OPAC is up).. The book suffers from the usual limitations
of the Irwell Press and its poor production standards, but does include a
great wealth of detail, although very little on the Kirtley
period..
Midland Railway locomotives. Volume 3. The Johnson classes. Part 1. The
slim boiler passenger tender engines, passenger and goods tank engines.
Clophill: Irwell Press, 2002. 196p.
Many illus. and tables. The tables suffer from excessive length and
from excessive darkness of type. The illustrations are well reproduced,
however.
Swift, Peter.
Locomotives in detail. 6. Maunsell 4-4-0 Schools class. London: Ian Allan.
2006. 96 pp.
Aimed at the modeller: thus rather superficial in both senses. Some
of the illustrations are very small, and not well reproduced: some are very
redolent of the Publisher's ABC series. On the other hand some of the superficial
detail is impressive: at the bottom of page 47 there is an illustration of
No. 926 Repton with its tender adorned with a British Railways totem
of the sort associated with platform signs. Extensive use has been made of
Colour Rail material. One suspects, having seen the same Author's excellent
work in Railway Archive that the limitations must be placed firmly
on the shoulders of the publisher.
Mel Holley (Steam Wld,
2007 (238) 66) comments: "this volume is not as poor as some in the series"
"Yet again this series fails to live up to what it promises tthe
reader".
Locomotives in detail. 8. Maunsell 4-6-0 Lord Nelson class. London:
Ian Allan, 2007.
Mel Holley (Steam
Wld, 2007 (243) 66) called the book "rough and ready"
and sighed that "it could have been so much better". KPJ agrees entirely:
very poor standard of reproduction: copy seen at NRM bookshop where it contrasts
greatly with NRM's own high standards for book production..
Sylvester, Charles
Report on rail-roads and locomotive engines addressed to the Chairman
of the Liverpool & Manchester projected Rail-Road. Liverpool, 1825.
39pp.
Ottley 262
Thomas, David St John
see authorship
Thomas, R.H.G.
Author justified an entry in Oxford
Companion
The Liverpool & Manchester Railway. London: Batsford, 1960.
264pp.
Ottley 12199. Foreword by Jack Simmons. Chapter
9: Locomotives & rolling stock. Other chapters describe the working
conditions of the early railway workers, including the very high rate of
fatalities and serious injuries, and the experience of the new form of travel.
Sources are quoted moderately fully. Note
Michael Bailey (Trans. Newcomen Soc., 60, 127) considers
that speed cited for Rocket at Rainhill is incorrect.
London's first railway: the London & Greenwich. London: Batsford,
1972. 270pp. Bibliography
Ottley 12473:
Thorley, W.G.F.
A breath of steam. Vol. 1. London: Ian Allan, 1975. 199pp.
The second volume never appeared as the author died before it could
be prepared. Written by a perceptive fitter on the Midland section of the
LMS and later during WW2 on the Tilbury section. Sadly Thorley died before
Volume 2 could be written..
Tomlinson, W.W.
Tomlinson's North Eastern Railway: its rise and development; new edition
with introduction by K. Hoole. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1967. 820pp.+40
plates.
See separate assessment of
Authorship,
Topping, Brian
The engine driver's manual: how to prepare, fire and drive a steam
locomotive. Sparkford: OPC, 1998. 192pp.
Tourret, Richard
Petroleum tank wagons of Britain. Abingdon: Tourret Publishing, c1980.
140pp.
Author's own citation: BL shelf mark: X.622/12355 Woolwich
Townend, P.N.
The A4 Pacifics. London Ian Allan, 1989. 64pp.
A landscape format colour picture album: Includes some photographs
taken in the late 1930s in LNER green and in garter blue.
East Coast Pacifics at work. London: Ian Allan,
1982. 192pp.
Townroe, S.C.
The book of the "Schools" class. London, Ian Allan, 1947, 32 p. 15
illus. 2 diagrs., (incl.. s. el.)
A short history. Location : British Library.
Tredgold, Thomas
Trevithick, Francis
Life of Richard Trevithick and an account of his inventions. London:
Spon, 1872. 2v.
An important work upon which Rolt's brief Cornish giant was based.
Adequate indexes, but excellent Contents pages (for each volume).
Tufnell, Robert
Prototype locomotives. Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1985.
112pp.
Great Western Railway No 40, Paget locomotive, Turbine condensing
locomotives, the Kitson-Still locomotive, the first No 10000 (Gresley/Yarrow),
LMS Fury, LMS Turbomotive, Bulleid Leaders, The second No 10000,
the Southern trio — Nos 10201/2/3, The Fell—No 10100, Deltic, Brush
Falcon No D0280, D0260 Lion , DP2, the Southern Railway Co-Cos
(electric), the gas turbine trio—nearly a quartet, the two ordered by
the GWR and GT3.
Turner, K. and S.
Shropshire & Montgomershire Railway. Newton Abbot: David &
Charles, 1982.
Turner, Keith
The Leek & Manifold Light Railway. Stroud: Tempus, 2005.
Reviewed by Allan Brackenbury in J. Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2005,
35, 209: notes that new edition of work published in 1980.
UNION Internationale des Chemins de Fer
Lexique generale des termes ferroviaires. London, Allen & Unwin,
2nd ed. 1965. 1357 p.
A polyglot dictionary, based on French. It lacks definitions.
Vallance, H.A., editor
The Highland Railway (1963)
The railway enthusiast's bedside book. London,
Batsford, 1966. 264 p. + 32 plates. 47 illus.
Vanns, Michael A.
An illustrated history of signalling. Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1997.
144pp.
Vaughan, Adrian
See separate page
Vaughan, John
The Newquay Branch and its Branches. OPC, 1991
Described by Treloar as
excellent
Vernon, Tony
Archibald Sturrock - pioneer locomotive engineer. Tempus, 2007.
See review by Phil Atkins in
Backtrack, 2008, 22, 126 who gives it a deserved five star
rating.
Vignoles, K.H.
Charles Blacker Vignoles. CUP, 1982.
Abebooks.com has several copies
of this, and the earlier biography (below) at what appear to be high prices
[this is probably due to the Florida connexion]
Vignoles, Olinthus J.
Life of Charles Blacker Vignoles, soldier and civil engineer. London:
Longmans, Geek, 1889.
Ottley 2586: same source notes several publications by subject
of biography.
Walker, Charles
Thomas Brassey, railway builder. London: Muller, 1969. 183pp+ 12
plates,
Ottley: 10217.
Walker, Thomas A.
The Severn Tunnel: its construction and difficulties, 1872-1887. Stroud:
Nonsuch, 2004 [reprint of 1888 work].
Reviewed by Peter Richards J Rly Canal Hist. Soc., 2005, 35,
206: a well-produced book
Wall, John
First in the world: the Stockton and Darlington Railway. Stroud: Sutton,
2001. 212pp.
Checked BLPC
Warren, J.G.H.
A Century of locomotive building by Robert Stephenson & Co., 1823-1923.
Newcastle: Andrew Reid, 1923. (reprinted David & Charles with
introduction by W.A. Tuplin in 1970). 461pp. extensive index.
Fuller information
Waters, Laurence
The Great Western broad gauge. Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1999. 96pp.
Some of the photographs have been better reproduced elsewhere. The
captions are excellent. Mainly a locomotive history.
Webb, Ben
Locomotive engineers of the LNER. London: Ian Allan, 1946. 76pp. illus.
(incl. ports.)
Brief biogaphies of LNER and its constituents
Locomotive engineers of the Southern Railway and its constituent companies.
London: Ian Allan, 1946. 87pp.
Webster, H.C.
Introduction to the locomotive. London, Sampson Low, Marston, [1947].
vi, 56 p. 16 diagrs.
A lucid introduction.
Railway motive power. London, Hutchinson, 1952. 311 p. front. + plates.
69 illus., 35 diagrs., 2 tables.
The arrangement is sometimes poor, but it does contain a
glossary.
Webster, N[orman] W[illiam]
Joseph Locke, Railway Revolutionary. London: Allen & Unwin, 1970.
218pp + 16 plates.
Ottley: 10220.
Weightman, Gavin
The industrial revolutionaries: the creation of the modern world, 1776-1914.
London: Atlantic Books, 2007. 422pp.
Further consideration
Welbourne, Nigel
Lost lines: British narrow gauge. Shepperton: Ian Allan, 2000,
128pp.
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway (mainly the 3ft gauge railway, although
the initial reopening as a 15in gauge line is shown in two pictures; Southwold
Railway; Sand Hutton Light Railway (15in, subsequently 18in gauge using former
War Department locomotives from Deptdord Meat Depot; 2ft 3in gauge Campbeltown
& Machrihanish Light Railway; 2ft 6in gauge Leek & Manifold Valley
Light Railway; Glyn Valley Tramway; 1ft 11½in Lynton & Barnstaple
Railway; 3ft 6in gauge Jersey Railways & Tramways; 1ft 11½in gauge
North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway/Portmdoc Beddgelert & South Snowdon
Railway/Weslsh Highland Railway; 10¼in gauge Surrey Border & Camberley
Railway; 3ft gauge Rye & Camber Tramway; Festiniog Railway (duing its
years of closure); 2ft 3in gauge Corris Railway; the short-lived 60cm gauge
Ashover Light Railway; a brief selection of Irish lines; the Manx Northern
Railway; slate quarry railways in Wales and some other industrial and
agricultural railways, notably that at Nocton Fen in Lincolnshire built to
serve the Nocton Potato Estates, using 60cm WW1 material.
Lost lines in London — London. Ian Allan.
See review by T.J. Edgington in
Backtrack (13-626) which notes
several significant errors: the City & South London line was not the
"Twopenny Tube" (Central line); Euston House and Eversholt House are confused;
and much about the Millwall Extension Railway is incorrect.
West, Theodore
The evolution of the locomotive engine. Darlington, c1900.
Ottley 2836 who recorded the work at the Railway
Club: Hamilton Ellis Some classic
locomotives noted that it is "not always trustworthy".
Westwood, J.N.
Locomotive designers in the age of steam. London:
Sidgwick & Jackson, 1977. 285pp. + plates
Wheeler, Geoffrey
Fired by steam. London: John Murray, 1987. landscape format.
Copy seen was a Magna Books reprint of 1995 which may have been poorly
printed, but some of the 24 plates are disappointing: the greens appear to
be too dark. See also authorship..
Whishaw, Francis.
The railways of Great Britain and Ireland, practically described and
illustrated. London, 1840. 500pp.
Ottley 420
White, John H.
A history of the American locomotive, its development: 1830-1880.
New York: Dover, 1968.
Whitehead, Alan.
The Midland in the 1930s. Shepperton: Ian Allan, 1982. 112pp.
Mainly pictorial: season-ticket holder from Radlett to St Pancras
in 1930s. Page 39 President's Inspection Saloon at St P in early1930s: painted
crimson lake with cream upper panels. No. 45000. two LMS emblems on side.
Pp. 48-9 LMS diesel afrticulated railcar. Livery red and cream with silverr
roof. Page 44 Fowler 2-6-4T No. 2300 painted in crimson lake. Also includes
M&GNJR and NCC: Marriott 4-4-2T No. 20 noted on Mundesley to Cromer
line.
Whitehouse, Patrick
with David St. John Thomas
LMS 150: the London Midland & Scottish Railway:
a centuary and a half of progress. Newton Abbot: David &
Charles, 1987. 208pp.
Coffee-table format, but many excellent writers involved, but difficult
to know who did what.
A passion for steam. Newton Abbott: David
& Charles, 1989.
A global approach: coffee-table format. Includes some serious material,
some of whhich was written by <