Railway - Great Britain & Ireland
LAPAGE, R. Herbert
On Compound Locomotives
Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, January 1889
1889 ICME article by Lepage, who had been Locomotive Superintendent of the Argentine Government Railways. In 1886 he designed the first compound goods locomotive in Great Britain which was tested by the Caledonian Railway.
LARKIN, David
Speedlink - A comprehensive pictorial study of the rolling stock used on this service 1977-91
Volumes One & Two
Two fully illustrated volumes covering Speedlink wagons:
Volume 1 - Introduction, Covered Goods Vans and Open Wagons;
Volume 2 - The Air-braked 'New' Batches.
LARKIN, David
Wagons of the Early British Railways Era / Wagons of the Early British Rail Era
Volumes One to Five
Series of five volumes illustrating BR wagons in the British Railways period 1948 to 1968 (3 volumes) and the British Rail period from 1969 to 1995 (2 volumes).
LARKIN, David
Working Wagons - A Pictorial Review of Freight Stock on the B.R. System
Volumes One to Four
Fine series of well captioned photographic albums of wagons on British Railways:
Volume One: 1968-1973;
Volume Two: 1974-1979;
Volume Three: 1980-1984;
Volume Four: 1985-1992.
LARKIN, David
Pre-Nationalisation Freight Wagons on British Railways
A pictorial survey
LARKIN, David
Non-Pool Freight Stock 1948 - 1968
Volumes One & Two
Privately-owned and European vehicles operating on BR in the steam era:
Volume One - Including APCM, Dorman Long, Esso & Gulf;
Volume Two - Including ICI, Regent, Shell-Mex and BP.