A Century of Locomotive Building

Introduction by W. A. Tuplin

Introduction by J. G. Warren

George Stephenson (1781-1848)

The Two Stephensons (1803-1859)



Chapter 1: The First Railroads

Chapter 2: The Fist Rail Locomotives (1804-1814)

Chapter 3: George Stephenson’s First Locomotives (1814-1825)

Chapter 4: The Stockton and Darlington Railway

Chapter 5: The Edward Pease (1767-1858)

Chapter 6: The Foundation and Development of Robert Stephenson & Co (1823-1859)

Chapter 7: The First Locomotives of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (1825-1829)

Chapter 8: The First Locomotives in France (1828-1829)

Chapter 9: The ‘Lancashire Witch’ (1828)

Chapter 10: The First Locomotives for America and some Remarkable Designs (1828-1829)

Chapter 11: The Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Chapter 12: The ‘Rocket’

Chapter 13: The Rainhill Trails

Chapter 14: The Firebox of the ‘Rocket’

Chapter 15: The Blast Pipe

Chapter 16: The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway

Chapter 17: The ‘Rocket’ Type

Chapter 18: The ‘Northumbrian’

Chapter 19: The Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway

Chapter 20: The ‘Planet’

Chapter 21:The ‘Planet’ Type and come more Experiments

Chapter 22: Hackworth and Stephenson Locomotives on the Stockton and Darlington Railway (1830-1840)

Chapter 23: The Stephenson Locomotive in America (1831-1836)

Chapter 24: The Six-Wheeled Locomotives Robert Stephenson’s Planet (1833-1841)

Chapter 25: Brunel and The Broad Gauge

Chapter 26: The ‘Long Boiler’ Locomotive Robert Stephenson’s Patent (1841-1845)

Chapter 27: Evolution of the ‘Stephenson’ Link Motion (1835-1842)

Chapter 28: The Gauge Experiments and the Stephenson Locomotive (1845-1860)

Chapter 29: The Latter Developments of the Robert Stephenson & Co (1859-1923)

Chapter 30: The Modern Steam Locomotive (1903-1923)



Appendix

Index