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Design Procedures for Walschaerts' and Stephenson's Valve Gears• Ashton• £ 14.60 Back in Print, this is the late Don Ashton' definitive book on improving the two major valve gears. It will help anyone improve their valve gear, be it on a model or a full- size engine, but they will need a computer to access the free software available. 40 pages. Softcover.
The fire burns much better ... Koopmans • £ 30.20 Authoritative book on steam locomotive exhaust systems, from Trevithick in 1804 up to Porta and Wardale in 2004. Each is covered, in general terms and then analysed in detail for their good and bad points. The author then moves on to consider the basic contributing elements to exhaust system theory and design, before detailing his own testing and experiments 488 pages, full of drawings, diagrams, data and formulae. Paperback. A treasure trove of information!
INJECTORS: their theory, construction & working • 1893 • Pullen • £ 14.75 Even at I 07 years old, this is a cracking book! It may not include the most modern injectors, but the science of injectors was well developed when it was published, and it does cover all injectors and ejectors of the period in considerable detail. Great book for the technically minded and those involved with steam preservation. 210 pages. I 09 drawings/ illustrations. I O tables. Paperback.
Steam Locomotive Design: Data and Formulm • Phillipson • { 1936} • £ 9.50 This book details the various factors affecting the design of the steam locomotive. Whilst published in 1936, the parameters with which it is mainly concerned largely were established by then. So if you want to calculate horsepower, driving wheel and cylinders sizes for a given poweroutput, the bearing surfaces required throughout the design for the intended power- output, the heating surface, hammer- blow, etc., etc. then this is the book for you. 448 pages with numerous drawings.
La Locomotive a Vapeur { 1952} Chapelon • £ 24.95 Here the French engineer Andre Chapelon reviews developments in the design and construction of all the steam locomotive's major parts, and compares the merits of simple and compound expansion. He looks at the major standard gauge locomotive designs worldwide of the 20th Century, including his own. Also includes various addenda updating Chapelon's work to the end of commercial steam, looks at Chapelon's unbuilt designs, and the work of those who continued to develop advanced steam locomotives. A book nobody interested in the history of the steam locomotive in the 20th century should be without. 659 pages. over 450 B & W photos, drawings, diagrams and charts, plus 41 colour illustrations.
From the Files Locomotives that Were & Locomotives that Weren't Barnes • £ 33.00 In this lovely book, artist & writer Robin Barnes looks at and illustrates some 25 locomotives which actually were built, and a further 14 which never saw the light of day. Very readable historical and technical details for each locomotive or machine illustrated and, in many cases, there are secondary illustrations, be they paintings, technical drawings, or photographs. 96 large format ( 297 mm x 297 mm) pages. 65 paintings and illustrations by the author, and 28 mainly colour photographs. Hardbound.
Beyond' 68 Jamieson• £ 33.60 This truly stunning book marks the 30th anniversary, in 2018, of the last trains under British Railways management on the narrow gauge Vale of Rheidol Railway, and the true end of BR steam. There are I 04 pages 292mm x 273mm containing 85 monochrome photographs ( virtually all one to a page) duotone printed on 170 gsm satin paper. Hardbound.
On the Trail of The Titfield Thunderbolt Castens • £ I I . OS A revised and enlarged edition of this book on the making, in 1952 of the Ealing film, "The Titfield Thunderbolt", perhaps the most loved of all feature films with a railway subject. Includes a comprehensive guide to the locations used. 56 page, quality paperback. 35 B& W photos and 4 maps.
Steam Locomotive Design Specifications and Calculations for New Build Baldwin l- 4- lT ' Lyn' • Gaylor • £ 58.50 At 604 pages, this is a real doorstop of a book! It contains the full design and engineering criteria for building the new version of the 2 foot gauge Lynton & Barnstaple 2- 4- 2T ' Lyn', now complete and operational. You won't be able to build your version from this, but there is a huge amount of useful information here, including a good number of CAD drawings and Third Angle drawings of various parts, including 5 pages for the boiler. Paperback.
Anatomy of a Narrow Gauge Baldwin • Manning • £ I 1.40 Baldwin WN 37399 is a 60 cm gauge 2- 4- 0 tender locomotive built in 191 I for the CantareiraT ramwayi n Brazil. It has hauled passengers, sugar, limestone and cement on different lines, and now awaits restoration. Modified at various times during its life, it is a superb project for modellers. In 92 landscapepages Peter Manning provides 150 CAD drawings of the engine and its tenders, with basic dimensions included. There is also an history of the loco with 20 photographs, both B& W and colour.
The Da, jeellng Garratt and the engine it tried to replace • Manning • £ 23.95 Here Peter Manning provides detail dimensioned drawings plus 3D CAD ones, of the second Garrattt locomotive built - the ' D' class for the Darjeeling Himalayan Railwayp, lus drawings for the ' B' class 0- 4- 0 tanks it was intended to replace. Whilst a - · · - significant development in the evolution of Garratts, the ' D' class locomotive wasn't repeated on the DHR, and the 0- 4- 0 tanks continue to the present. 72 landscape format and ringbound pages. The Anatomy of a Garratt Manning • £ 23.35 Peter Manning's "detailed look at the design and construction of K I, the original Garratt locomotive, built for the Tasmanian Government Railways - a century ago", now on the Welsh Highland Railway. The drawings here are of such quality that we are sure you could build a model of K I, in any gauge, from them. 29 pages of colour views of the engineering anatomy, 24 pages of parts drawings with imperial dimensions, a colour painting, a map and a history of K I's life so far. 66 landscape informati- on-. A4 format pages, spiral- bound, with a plastic outer cover. Great
The Glory of French Railways:
Vol. I Steam in Paris and the North of France
1932 • 1965 • DVD £ 20.77
Vol. l From Paris to the West & the Last of
Steam • 1947 • 1966 • DVD £ 20.77
Vol. 3 The Splendour of Steam and early
Electrics • 1945 • 1965 • DVD £ 20.77
Vol. I has considerable footage shot on the Nord Railway, and Region, that from 1932 shot by Jack Stretton- Ward covering a journey from
Dover to Paris, and return, on the Fleche d'Or, much of the return journey shot from the footplate. Film from 1947 also covers the Gares du
Nord and Bastille, plus a visit to Vitry test plant to see a 141 R being put through its paces. This DVD ends with 1965 film shot at Calais.
Vol. 2 covers trips on the lines from Paris St. Lazare to Le Havre in 1947 in which a Dean Goods is seen, and slightly later, a journey from Paris Montparnasse to Le Mans, where the 2- D- 2 hands over to a 141 P. The action then moves to Verdun on the Est Region in 1966, before finishing with the very last SNCF steam run on the 28th April 1973 with a 141 R from Sarreguemines.
Vol. 3 makes a partly electric journey in 1947, anti- clockwise round France from Paris Austerlitz, to the Gares d'Est and to Lyon, via Modane & Culoz, finishing with a considerable amount of steam, including a 240P at the Gare de Lyon.
All are around 55 minutes long and mostly in B & W - Vol. I has some colour.
The Glory of French Railways BUNDLES! Any two volumes - Just £ 33.34 ••• only in India App. 70 mins. • DVD £ 20.77 Very well made film on India's four narrow gauge mountain lines - the Darjeeling, Matheran, Nilgiri and Shimla railways. All are shown with steampowered trains, although the Matheran line is using a Darjeeling Class ' B' as motive power. What makes this film that bit different from others is that it has more in the way of lineside shots, which really give you a feel for the countryside the railways operate through, and life going on around them. Amongst highlights are the Darjeeling trains negotiating Kurseong and its bazaar, but there is much more!