The locomotive engine plays so important a part in railway travelling that we have thought it necessary, in the remarks which follow, to give dimensions of the types adopted by the various English and Scotch systems for the working of their fast and express trains. . . . Perhaps the most striking feature of British locomotive practice is the extensive use of "single-driver" engines. This does not prevail to any extent elsewhere, and, in fact, it is only lately that their use has become general in this country. It is true that thirty or forty years ago, when speeds were low and trains light, they were very numerous, but coupled engines gradually began to take their place, and fears were expressed in the technical journals that the time would soon come when ** single " engines might be placed on pedestals "-as rare objects of curiosity presumably. Nowadays, however, "singles" are by no means rare, and have to a certain extent been adopted by many lines. The Great Northern and Great Western have always had a liking for them, and recently the Midland, Great Eastern, and North-Eastern have built them in considerable numbers. — J. Peabody Pattinson, British Railways (1893)

The First Locomotives

Later Locomotives

Passenger Cars

Bibliography

Pattinson, J. Peabody. British Railways: Their Passenger Service, Rolling Stock, Locomotives, Gradients, and Express Speeds. London: Cassell, 1893. Internet Archive version of a copy in the Stanford University library. Web. 26 January 2013.

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