Locomotive Magazine/Locomotive Railway Carriage & Wagon Review key file Volume 12 (borrowed from British Library) had at one time belonged to Robert Stephenson & Co. Ltd. Darlington: the title page being received on 8 March 1908 according to the date stamp.

In a moment of absurd optimism given the lack of resources to hand which amount to a handful of single issues; those issues indexed for specific articles in Steam Locomotive Development; and piles of notes made from inspecting bound copies in a variety of locations, such as the National Railway Musuem, the National Library of Scotland and the Coalbrookdale Museum, it was decided that this journal is too important not to be covered in depth. Furthermore, it is sufficiently important to justify some commercial or charitable organization to do a scanning operation comparable with those performed on the literature of the two major engineering organizations (Civils and Mechanicals) and the Newcomen Society.

There are many problems which require to be addressed: should such an index contain all material, or be restricted to articles relating to British steam locomotive development? Some material duplicates material already indexed on steamindex and available on the Internet: how should this be handled? The many small paragraphs containing news are sometimes extremely interesting, but frequently duplicate much available elsewhere, notably in RCTS publications. Feedback would be extremely useful, as would assistance in indexing, and vitally either the loan of journals or access to them with fast access by Zimmer from West Runton.

A brief visit to the NRM in York enabled the first two volumes to be inspected including Moore's Monthly Magazine published by F. Moore of 9 South Place, Finsbury in London. Perhaps, the most striking feature was the modernity of the publication: it may sound old-fashioned but it looked very modern with the use of sans serif type in shaded capitals to emblazon the title. Issues were much thinner at first, but the characteristic series articles began very early on. The modernity was stressed by the use of MMM for self-reference. Nevertheless, Locomotive Magazine was adopted from January 1897. A substantial amount of space was devoted to listing the products of The Locomotive Publishing Company. It is interesting to look at photographs of the Webb compound Black Prince with double chimney and a Wilson Worsdell 4-4-0 and immediately be struck by their modernity. Some typographical features were absent from the early issues notable the absence of the ampersand and. the use of Rly or Rlys..

A problem with some of the National treasures is that volumes which were formerly part of the Patent Office Library (which were split between St. Pancras and the Document Supply Centre) were mainly based on the low cost version printed on highly acid newsprint which are liable to degradation and sometimes have pages missing (one at St Pancras was so thin that resort had to be made to the index). There are probably more copies in secondhand booksellers (names suppliable in return for payment of at least £30) than in public libraries. These volumes are being decontaminated from asbestos!

Conventions. Much of the brief paragraph material has been scanned in an attempt to speed things up. The case of such text is changed and as far as possible transcription errors are avoided, but some caution should be observed: scanning software has a remarkable ability to introduce unseemly words. Many metric measurements were converted to imperial leading to 11/16 and similar impossible fractions. WN is used for all Works Numbers and RN for running numbers (the latter only where necessary). The Editor had a GBS approach to spelling and color is liable to slip through. "We have reason to believe" is always left at that.

A key feature in many volumes were the F. Moore coloured plates.

See also Locomotive Publishing Co. page.

Moore's Monthly Magazine (1896)

Locomotive Magazine (until 1915)
Volume 2 (1897)
Volume 5 (1900)
Volume 6 (1901)
Volume 10 (1904)
Volume 11 (1905)
Volume 12 (1906)
Volume 13 (1907)
Volume 14 (1908)
Volume 15 (1909)
Volume 16 (1910)
Volume 17 (1911)
Volume 18 (1912)
Locomotive Railway Carriage & Wagon Review (1916-1959 when merged with Trains Illustrated)
Volume 31 (1925)
Volume 32 (1926)
Volume 33 (1927)
Volume 34 (1928)
Volume 35 (1929)
Volume 36 (1930)
Volume 37 (1931)
Volume 38 (1932)
Volume 43 (1937)
Volume 53 (1947)

Individual issues
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442

Moore's Monthly Magazine (1896)

January

The Jubilee of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway. 2-4. illus.
Illustration and main dimensions of two-cylinder compound No. 33 Glengorm Castle.

A long run on the G.E.R. 4.
Liverpool Street to Cromer non-stop achieved at an average speed of 47 mile/h. The same locomotive (No. 1006) performed the up journey non-stop

New express locomotive for the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway. 5-6. illus.
4-4-0 No. 694

The late Mr. P. Stirling. 6
Celebrated by a complete listing of his bogie singles.

February

The development of long distance running. 10-11.
In Britain as in the run mentioned on page 4.

New four-coupled bogie engines for the Great Western Railway. 11-12. illus.
Dean 4-4-0 for the South Devon and Cornwall banks: No. 3259 Pendennis Castle illustrated

Our Supplement; "An eight-footer of fifty years ago". 12.
Actual supplement missing from NRM copy, but was an 1848 "talbo-type" photograph of a Norris Crampton for the Camden & Amboy Road

The colours of locomotives, carriages, and wagons. 12-13.

Reviews. 13-14.
British locomotives. C.J. Bowen Cooke. Whittaker.
Includes an illustration from

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