The Lore of the Train By C Hamilton Ellis
239 Pages
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
CONTENTS
Chapter 1 PRIMEVAL FORMS Page 15
What is a train? Rutted ways in early times. Mining railways in the Middle Ages. The first steam engines: Marquis of Worcester's, Savery's, Papin's and Newcomen's. Richard Trevithick and the first steam locomotive at Penydarren. Catch-me-who-can is exhibited in London, 1808.
Chapter 2 THE MOTIVE REVOLUTION Page 24
The world's first public railway. Murray and Blenkinsop's rack locomotive. Colliery locomotives. Puffing Billy. John Steven's rack locomotive. The opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway, 1825. The Rainhill Trials. The Rocket. The Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
Chapter 3 THE GREAT MORNING OF STEAM Page 49
The first American locomotives. Tom Thumb. The Best Friend of Charleston. First railways throughout Europe. The "Planet" and "Patentee" types. Famous locomotive engineers: Robert Stephenson, William Norris, August Borsig. Early passenger car design. The Railway Mania.
Chapter 4 MID-NINETEENTH CENTURY Page 71
Scandinavia's Förstlingen. The Semmering Trials in Austria. Maffei's Bavaria. Engerth's Speiser. Crampton and his new designs. Gooch's broad-gauge locomotives. The first 2-6-0. Sleeping cars - Pullman, Nagelmackers. Mountain railways. The first underground city railway.
Chapter 5 THE YEARS OF MONOPOLY Page 103
The "American Type" locomotive. The development of valve gears. Safety of trains. Firing. Compound expansion: Mallet, von Borrfes and de Glehn. Sleeping car design. Heating and lighting. First electric traction. Speed records. The Baltimore and Ohio electric locomotive.
Chapter 6 STEAM CHALLENGED Page 143
The 1875 Jubilee. Schmidt's superheater. Gauge variations and its problems. Electric traction in Europe. The "Pacific" type. Passenger classes. Travelling in comfort. Freight engines. The Beyer Garrat. Snow-plows. The first Diesel engines. Monorails.
Chapter 7 THE TRAIN IN OUR TIME Page 186
Electric and diesel traction. Advances in locomotive engineering. The steam engine's rearguard action. Mechanical stokers. Boosters. Turbine steam locomotives. Specialized freight cars. The Trans-Europ-Express. City transit. French electric locomotives. The Tokaido Express.
Appendix THE FUTURE OF THE TRAIN Page 233
A special section written by P. M. Kalla-Bishop for this book. Present developments are described: automatic railways, high speed on steel railways, unorthodox railways. The linear electric locomotive. The tracked hovercraft system. The "tilting body" train. The magnetic levitation train.
Primeval forms, the motive revolution, the great morning of steam, mid nineteenth century, the years of monopoly, steam challenged, the train in our time, the future of train.
The railway-a confined track for wheeled vehicles - has been used by man since the early 16th century, but it was not until the advent of the locomotive in 1804 that the stage was set for the train, that invention which was to change the face and life of the planet as nothing else since the first seagoing ships sailed the oceans in prehistoric times. This magnificent volume concentrates on the train itself, the machine for actual conveyance, and all its components - steam, electric and oil-propelled locomotives, and passenger, freight and special cars. All important national contributions to the development of this remarkable machine are faithfully recorded, and the story is continuous from the first invention containing all the elements that make up a train, Richard Trevithick's 1804 Penydarren Tramroad in South Wales, to the introduction of the latest electric trains, most notably at this stage in Japan.
All important developments in the history of the train are illustrated by detailed drawings, many of them fully and accurately coloured, while the picturesque side of the subject is rendered by reproductions of woodcuts, engravings and tine paintings.
