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British Locomotive Practice & Performance compiled /edited by Charles Fryer w/DJ
British Locomotive Practice & Performance compiled and edited by Charles Fryer foreword by O.S. Nock
Extracts from the pioneering Railway Magazine articles of 1902-1908 by Charles Rous-Marten
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
156 pages
Copyright 1990
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword by O. S. Nock8
Acknowledgements9
Introduction 11
PART 1: PRACTICE21
APRIL 190223
On the introduction of the 4-6-0 type for express passenger work on the Great Western Railway
OCTOBER 190228
On Mr. S. W. Johnson's new three-cylinder compounds on the Midland Railway
MARCH 190431
On the extent to which locomotive power depends upon boiler size and heating surface
APRIL 190437
On cylinder dimensions and whether a diameter greater than 18 inches was really necessary for efficient working
MAY 190441
On the most suitable diameter for driving wheels in a steam locomotive
DECEMBER 190447
On the new De Glehn 4-4-2 compound locomotive of the Great Western Railway, and on Webb's compounds on the London and North Western Railway, and changes recently made in them
JUNE 190654
On speeds attained or attainable by British express locomotives
SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER 190660
On the Salisbury derailment of July 1st, 1906
MAY 190764
On compound locomotives constructed for service on British railways
JULY & AUGUST 190769
On the use or non-use of the steam dome on British locomotives
MARCH 190876
On the possible establishment of a Railway Museum
PART 2: PERFORMANCE79
Great Western Railway81
MAY 190381
Four-coupled engines between London and Exeter
SEPTEMBER 190383
Paddington to Plymouth with the Royal Train on July 14th, 1903
APRIL 190786
London to Plymouth by way of the newly opened route through Westbury behind Churchward's recently constructed four cylinder Atlantic North Star
London and North Western Railway 90
DECEMBER 190290
Journeys made behind Webb compounds on an accelerated Birmingham express
DECEMBER 190493
Journeys made behind Mr. Whale's 4-4-0 `Precursors'
JULY 190596
Journeys behind a new `Precursor' 4-4-0 and an old `Precedent' 2-4-0
OCTOBER 190799
Journeys from Crewe to Carlisle and back behind a newly-built
`Experiment, 4-6-0
Midland Railway102
NOVEMBER 1903102
Performances of newly built compound 4-4-0s on the Settle and Carlisle line
SEPTEMBER 1904104
Journeys on the main line from St Pancras behind non-compound 4-4-0s with Belpaire fireboxes, recently built by Mr.
S. W. Johnson
Great Northern Railway109
NOVEMBER 1903109
Performances of an Ivatt 4-2-2, a small-boilered `Atlantic' and a large-boilered `Atlantic'
JANUARY 1907114
Performance by a Stirling 8-footer single-wheeler contrasted with that of a large-boilered Ivatt `Atlantic' on the same train out of King's Cross
Great Central Railway116
JUNE 1904116
Performances of Robinson 4-6-0s between Marylebone and Leicester
MAY 1907119
Runs behind compound `Atlantics' between Marylebone and Leicester
North Eastern Railway123
JUNE 1902123
Journeys from Leeds to Scarborough and back behind `I' class 4-2-2s, from Darlington to York behind `R' class 4-4-0s, and from Darlington to York and Newcastle to Berwick behind an `S1' class 4-6-0
DECEMBER 1907126
A return journey between York and Newcastle behind a Smith 4-4-2 compound
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway129
JULY 1902129
Journeys behind Aspinall inside- cylindered 4-4-2 `Highflyers' and an Aspinall 4-4-0, with light loads, between Manchester and Liverpool
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION:
Charles Rous-Marten, 'the high priest of train timing', travelled hundreds of thousands of miles between 1884 and 1908 on or behind locomotives recording many remarkable train performances. He was the originator and first author of The Railway Magazine's famous 'British Locomotive Practice and Performance' feature, which has become the world's longest-running railway column.
Rous-Marten was a somewhat eccentric, rather opinionated, highly enthusiastic railway journalist with a style all his own. For the modern reader, his distinction is that he sees the Edwardian locomotive scene not across the years, as we have to, but as one totally immersed in it, who knew personally the great locomotive engineers of his day: Patrick Stirling, H.A.Ivatt, G.J.Churchward, Dugald Drummond, Francis Webb, George Whale and the rest. He was the first practitioner in the art of timing express trains with a stop-watch, and usually boarded the train with four such timepieces, one in each hand and one in each trouser pocket. In his columns he discussed design and practice and recorded specimen performances on most of the pre-Grouping railways. It was he who claimed for City of Truro the controversial maximum speed of 102.3 mph down Wellington bank (although he sat on his figures for some years and merely dropped broad hints which enabled the knowledgeable to identify the occasion).
The 34 extracts included here are divided between 'Practice' and 'Performance' and provide us with a unique contemporary insight into the Golden Age of railway development. The spirit of the Edwardian railway enthusiast, or 'railwayac', is recaptured, and Rous-Marten's infectiously enthusiastic style carries us back with him to that long-vanished era.
Dr Charles Fryer, who has compiled and edited the present selection, is a retired clergyman and teacher who has written several books on subjects as diverse as railways, First World War naval history and psychic phenomena.
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