The Royal Arsenal Railways: The Rise and Fall of a Military Railway Network

The Royal Arsenal Railways: The Rise and Fall of a Military Railway Network

PublisherPen & Sword Books Ltd
ImprintPen & Sword Transport
Typeset byMac Style Ltd
Printed and Bound byReplika Press Pvt Ltd
FormatHardback
LanguageEnglish
LocationBarnsley, UK
Copyright2016
Pages / Font172 pages / Erhardt
ISBN 13978 1 47384 400 1
PriceUK £30.00, US $35.00
ChaptersIntroduction Acknowledgements Chapter 1 The Formative Years of the Railway System Chapter 2 Railway Experiments of the 1870s and 1880s Chapter 3 Consolidation and 'The Lull Before the Storm' Chapter 4 The System's Finest Hour Chapter 5 The Aftermath of the Armistice and a New Conflict Chapter 6 Decline and Fall 1945-94 Chapter 7 Narrow-Gauge Locomotives 1871-1971 Chapter 8 Standard-Gauge Locomotives 1875-1967 Chapter 9 Rolling Stock Used Within the Arsenal Chapter 10 Surviving Remains Appendix I: Royal Arsenal Railway Officials 1905-55 Appendix II: RAR Mechanical Engineering Department Details Appendix III: Lieutenant Colonel Hemming's Comparison Tables for Operational Data before and during the First World War Appendix IV: Locomotives Bought or Hired during the First World War (standard-gauge) Appendix V: Locomotives Disposals during the First World War (standard-gauge) Appendix VI: Locomotive Statistics as at 4 August 1914 and 11 November 1918 (standard-gauge) Appendix VII: Details of the narrow-gauge Manning Wardle Locomotives for the Royal Arsenal Appendix VIII: Details of the standard-gauge Manning Wardle Locomotives Supplied to the Royal Arsenal Appendix IX: 18in-gauge Locomotive Histories Appendix X: Standard-gauge Locomotive Histories Appendix XI: 2ft-gauge Locomotive Histories Index
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