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Calshot and Fawley Narrow Gauge Railways by Frederick W Cooper Soft Cover
The Calshot and Fawley Narrow Gauge Railways by Frederick W Cooper FBIM FIIM
Soft Cover
64 pages
Copyright 1989
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 5
CHAPTER 1A BRIEF HISTORY OF RAF. CALSHOT 7
CHAPTER 2LOCATION AND ORIGINS 9
CHAPTER 3TRACK, LAYOUT AND STRUCTURES 11
CHAPTER 4LOCOMOTIVES 19
CHAPTER 5ROLLING STOCK 22
CHAPTER 6OPERATION 23
CHAPTER 7PERSONNEL 27
CHAPTER 8INCIDENTALS 28
CHAPTER 9ABANDONMENT 29
CHAPTER 10DISPOSALS AND LAST REMAINS 29
APPENDIX `A' BRIEF PARTICULARS OF ROBERT HUDSON CLASS 'A' 0-4-0WT LOCOMOTIVES 46
APPENDIX `B' BRIEF PARTICULARS OF BAGULEY `677' CLASS (`McEWAN PRATT') 0-4-0PM LOCOMOTIVES 47
APPENDIX `C' BRIEF SPECIFICATION OF KERR, STUART & CO., `WREN' CLASS 0-4-0 SADDLE TANK LOCOMOTIVES 47
APPENDIX `D' NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF KERR, STUART `WREN' CLASS LOCOMOTIVE No. 4019 48
APPENDIX `E' BRIEF SPECIFICATION OF ANDREW BARCLAY, SONS & CO. LTD. CLASS `E' 0-4-0 WELL-TANK LOCOMOTIVES 49
APPENDIX 'F' NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF SIX ANDREW BARCLAY CLASS `E' LOCOMOTIVES BUILT FOR THE ADMIRALTY IN 1918 53
APPENDIX `G' RHYMES OF THE ROYAL AIR FORCE 55
THE AGWI REFINERY NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY INTRODUCTION 33
CHAPTER 11LOCATION AND BEGINNINGS 35
CHAPTER 12THE EARLIER YEARS 37
CHAPTER 13 THE REFINERY COMES ON STREAM 37
CHAPTER 14 THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE TAKES OVER 38
CHAPTER 15THE RAILWAY IN OPERATION 41
CHAPTER 16 THE DECLINE OF THE SYSTEM 44
APPENDIX 'H' THE LOCOMOTIVES OF THE AGWI NARROW-GAUGE RAILWAY 56
APPENDIX 'I'LOCOMOTIVE PARTICULARS 60
OTHER NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS IN THE FAWLEY AREA (A) TOTTON SAND AND BALLAST COMPANY 45 (B) CENTRAL ELECTRICITY GENERATING BOARD, FAWLEY POWER STATION 45 APPENDIX 'J' CEGB FAWLEY - LOCOMOTIVE PARTICULARS 61
INTRODUCTION
Many older readers will have stood and watched a contractor's narrow-gauge railway at work and wished that it could live on long after the work of construction had finished. Such daydreams are not possible for the youngsters of today now that the contractor's railway has given way to the snarling, noisy, diesel-powered, rubber-tyred monsters of the construction sites.
The Air Ministry railway at Calshot was just such a day-dream come true. For some thirty-six years after the construction work for which it was built was completed, it ran its daily journeys. From humdrum beginnings as a struggling contractor's line it graduated to become an integrated part of the internal transport system of an operational Royal Air Force Station. Random journeys gave way to a scheduled passenger and freight service, to a standard of punctuality worthy of the main-line railways.
Many thousands of airmen who passed through Calshot will look back in fond memory to the sight of the Calshot `Express' winding its way up from the Spit, across the roads, and through the `Top Camp'.
Although the line is now but a memory, one of the locomotives has gone on to bigger things, exchanging the limited surroundings of Calshot for the mountains of Wales, where it now brings happiness to thousands, hauling the world-famous trains of the Talyllyn Railway.
ON THE BACK COVERMany older readers will have stood and watched a contractor's narrow-gauge railway at work and wished that it could live on long after the work of construction had finished. The 2' 0" gauge Air Ministry railway at Calshot, Hampshire, was just such a daydream come true. From humdrum beginnings as a contractor's line it graduated to become an integrated part of the transport system of an operational Royal Air Force Station. Random journeys gave way to a scheduled passenger and freight service, to a standard of punctuality worthy of the main-line railways.
In nearby Fawley, a similar railway laid down to service the construction of the huge A.G.W.I. oil refinery was adapted to form the refinery's transport backbone, conveying fuel, chemicals, stores, firefighting materials and even passengers.
This completely updated history tells the story of both railways, from earliest beginnings to closure. Full details are provided of locomotives - Kerr, Stuart `Wren', Robert Hudson 0-4-OWT, Barclay 0-4-OWT, Baguley 4wPM and Motor Rail `Simplex' - two of which `DOUGLAS' (Talyllyn Railway) and `AGWI PET' (Hampshire Narrow Gauge Railway) survive in preservation. Also included are notes on railways at Eaglehurst gravel pits, Totton Sand and Gravel Co. (Fawley) and CEGB Fawley.
This book will appeal to those interested in military, industrial or railway history, and modellers seeking information on prototypes with a difference.
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