Railway - Worldwide
LANGHAMMER, Eric
Vanishing Steam - A Photographer's Odyssey Around the World
Fine photography of the final years of steam from around the world.
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.
LAWS, Bill
Fifty Railways that Changed the Course of History
Fifty historically significant railways from across the world, presented chronologically from the Merthyr Tydfil Railway in 1804 to the Channel Tunnel in 2007.
Le CHEMINANT, Steve; MURPHY, Vernon & RHODES, Michael
Extreme Steam
Very fine collection of colour photographs of Chinese steam operating in the 1980s and 1990s.
LEGG, Stuart (ed.)
The Railway Book
An Anthology
Anthology of railway writing from the UK and worldwide, both reporting and fiction.
LEITCH, David
Steam, Steel & Splendour
Fine colour album of New Zealand steam taken from 1955 to the end of steam in 1971.
