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Locomotive Practice and Performance Volume I: The Age of Steam, 1959-68 Highligh
Locomotive Practice and Performance Volume I: The Age of Steam, 1959-68 Highlights from the celebrated Railway Magazine articles by OS Nock
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
(NOTE I Do have some Railway Magazines that I can list if you are looking for a certain article)
320 pages
Copyright 1989
Contents
Preface 7
JANUARY 1959
Introduction
9
FEBRUARY 1959
West Coast Main Line - Euston-Carlish
11
JULY 1959
East Coast Main Line - pre and post wa
21
SEPTEMBER 1959
Midland - doing the `ton'!
33
OCTOBER 1959
Dover boat trains - LCDR and BR
44
JANUARY 1960
Euston-Liverpool - past and present
55
JUNE 1960
Scottish topics - the `Postal' - on the
Highland line
66
AUGUST 1960
The `Night Ferry' - `Merchant Navy'
dynamometer car test
78
OCTOBER 1960
East Coast - on the footplate of Mallard
89
FEBRUARY 1961
Great Western - `Castle' retrospect,
Paddington-Bath
102
APRIL 1961
Seaside expresses to Folkestone, Dover and
Deal
114
MAY 1961
Settle and Carlisle - tests and coal
consumption
127
JUNE 1961
West Coast Main Line - Preston to
Glasgow
139
OCTOBER 1961
`9F' tests, including the Somerset & Dorset
151
NOVEMBER 1961
Great Western - steam finale on `The
Limited'
162
JANUARY 1962
East Coast route - `Deltics' and steam
compared
174
AUGUST 1,962
Midland Line: Settle and Carlisle test runs
187
NOVEMBER 1962
Southern - timings on the ex-LSWR line
197
MAY 1963
West Coast Main Line - Preston-Carlisle
dynamometer car runs, 1925-6
209
NOVEMBER 1963
Western Region - Paddington-Exeter
historic runs, and elsewhere
223
JUNE 1964
AUGUST 1964
Southern electric and steam
247
OCTOBER 1964
100 mph and all that
259
DECEMBER 1964
What would Rous-Marten have said?
270
FEBRUARY 1966
The remarkable Bulleid Pacifics
282
APRIL 1966
Euston-Crewe - dawn of a new age?
291
MAY 1968
The London-Edinburgh non-stops
300
NOVEMBER 1968
Steam finale: some reflections
309
Introduction
ONE day in mid-October I happened to be browsing through my files of The Railway Magazine for 1909 in search of some data I
needed, and I came across the very first article written by Cecil J. Allen under the now famous title. I could not help pausing in my search to read that first article again. Little did I imagine, however, that the very next post would bring news of his impending retirement from the job of writing these articles, and an invitation to me to take over. At first I was non-plussed. One had come to regard the combination of Cecil J. Allen and `British Locomotive Practice and Performance' as so much of an institution in the railway literary world that the idea of any severance of the association never entered one's head, though to be sure that severance must have come some time.
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