Download or read book Locomotive Builders of Leeds written by Mark Smithers and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of commercial railway locomotive manufacture in the Leeds is a fascinating story, covering a period of nearly two centuries, which commenced during the Napoleonic period and only came to an end in 1995. The two companies that most epitomized the formative years and period of consolidation of this this part of Britains industrial history were E.B. Wilson & Co (1846-59) and Manning Wardle & Co (1858-1927). The former manufacturer was well known for the Jenny Lind locomotives and their derivative designs used on several British main lines during the mid-nineteenth century. They proved to have a profound influence upon the work of other manufacturers for main line needs.The latter company was a builder of contractors and industrial locomotives, used worldwide, whose mainstream designs were likewise highly influential upon the work of neighboring manufacturers, constituting a sphere of locomotive production that lasted from before the Crimean War until after the end of the Second World War.In this new work, Mark Smithers draws upon a variety of sources, both documentary and illustrative, to arrive at an up-to date appraisal of the achievements of these companies during their respective periods of production, and their legacy to the greater sphere of British railway locomotive development.

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Download or read book The Metropolitan Vickers Type 2 Co Bo Diesel Electric Locomotives written by Anthony P. Sayer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2020-06-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thorough history of the Metropolitan-Vickers locomotive, also known as “Class 28,” featuring 160 color and black & white photos. This book provides an in-depth history of the Metropolitan-Vickers diesel-electric Type 2 locomotives, more frequently known collectively as the “Co-Bo’s” due to their unusual wheel arrangement. Twenty locomotives were constructed during the late-1950s for use on the London Midland Region of British Railways. The fleet was fraught with difficulties from the start, most notably due to problems with their Crossley engines, this necessitating the need for extensive rehabilitation work during the early-1960s. Matters barely improved and the option to completely re-engine the locomotives with English Electric units was debated at length, but a downturn in traffic levels ultimately resulted in their demise by the end of 1968 prior to any further major rebuilding work being carried out. Significant quantities of new archive and personal sighting information, supported by over 180 photographs and diagrams, have been brought together to allow dramatic new insights into this enigmatic class of locomotives, including the whole debate surrounding potential re-engining, their works histories, the extended periods in storage, together with in-depth reviews of the various detail differences and liveries.

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Download or read book Colonel Stephens Light Railway Locomotives written by Brian Janes and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2023-10-30 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital to build and equip a light railway that would give a reasonable profit. Recourse was therefore made to the second-hand market. Stephens became a master at the art of building and running railways with the minimum of capital. The history of the mechanical performance of his railways was also nearly always handicapped with inadequate engineering facilities. This left staff struggling, often surprisingly successfully, with a menagerie of locomotive types. Limited standardisation was practised but most often expediency ruled. This gave rise to a glorious kaleidoscope of locomotives the history of each of which is outlined This variety was further colored by Stephens generally regarding a locomotive name as far more important than its number.

Download or read book Rambles on Railways written by Sir Cusack Patrick Roney and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A contemporary survey, chiefly of financial managerial and operation aspects of railways in various parts of the world.

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Download or read book Transactions written by Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43.

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Download or read book Transactions of the Institution of Mining Engineers written by Institution of Mining Engineers (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in v. 1-3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19-20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 35, 37, 39, 41, 43.

Download or read book Crane Locomotives written by John Woodhams and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previously unpublished photographs help to illustrate the story of these fascinating railway oddities.