Steam Locomotives
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.
LAWTON, E.R. & SACKETT, Major M.W.
The Bicester Military Railway and the Army's Central Railway Workshops
LAYSON, J.F.
The Stephensons and other Railway Pioneers
Memorable Men of the Nineteenth Century
Biography of the Stephensons with overview chapters on Richard Trevithick, William Hedley, Timothy Hackworth and Isambard Kingdom Brunel.