Railway - Great Britain & Ireland
LANSLEY, Alastair; DURANT, Stuart; DYKE, Alan; GAMBRILL, Bernard & SHELTON, Roderick
The Transformation of St Pancras Station
Fine and detailed study of the transformation of St. Pancras station from the dilapidated Midland Railway building of 1868 to the Eurostar terminal in 2007. Written by the architects and engineers, illustrated with photographs and drawings throughout.
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
Pre-Nationalisation Freight Wagons on British Railways
A pictorial survey
LARKIN, David
BR Parcels and Passenger-Rated Stock
Volumes One to Three
Fine series of three volumes detailing BR wagons with photographs and detailed captions throughout.
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
Civil Engineers Wagons
Volumes One to Three
Three volumes from 2011 to 2013 covering specially-designed wagons used for track maintenance on British Railways:
Volume 1 - British Railways: 1948-1967;
Volume 2 - Early British Rail: 1968-1977;
Volume 3 - Later British Rail: 1978-1994.
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.