The Evolution of the Heat Engine Kolin • £18.05 • (A) Full described in the “Hot Air Engines” section, this book also covers the development of the steam engine, as well as a huge amount more. Put simply, if you are reading this section, buy a copy of this book! Add to shopping basket

The books for anyone interested in advanced steam locomotives

Advanced Steam Locomotive Development • Porta • £ 9.85 • (D) This book arose from correspondence with Dante Porta after we had published the English edition of André Chapelon’s La Locomotive a Vapeur, and the idea of bringing some of Porta’s papers to a much wider audience was irresistible. Porta has always been described as Chapelon’s ‘disciple’, which is certainly true, but was very definitely his own man, with his own ideas. He also worked in a more technologically advanced age, and whilst this inevitably regarded steam as out-moded, it did give Porta access to materials unknown to Chapelon, and different (computer) design techniques, all of which he used to maximum effect. In my opinion, the fact that Porta never worked within the traditional railway company set-up, being an academic by training, gave him much more freedom to adopt a different approach. And finally, of course, Porta taught and encouraged those brave few who continue to work on the concept of advanced steam power. Contained within this book are three of Porta’s papers, one public and two previously circulated privately. Porta himself wished us to publish his paper Fundamentals of the Porta Compound System for Steam Locomotives, and this is the core of the book. However, to give an introduction to much of Porta’s work, and his overall philosophy, we have also included the paper he presented to the Manchester Centre of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers in March 1969 entitled Steam Locomotive Development in Argentina - its contribution to the future of railway technology in the under-developed countries. The third paper is, again, a private one, and deals with the subject of steam leakage. Add to shopping basket

Steam Locomotive Design: Data and Formulæ Phillipson • {1936} • £29.95 • (A) Ever since the English language edition of Chapelon’s “La Locomotive a Vapeur” (above) was published, we have been asked for a book which goes in detail into the various factors affecting the design of the steam locomotive. This particular title was mentioned frequently, and I am very grateful to Mr. Simon Marshall for his generosity in lending me his copy from which to make this facsimile reprint. This book was first published in 1936 and hence pre-dates both editions of “La Locomotive a Vapeur”, but the parameters with which it is mainly concerned - ie stresses, forces etc were established by then and whilst the book largely revolves round British and Empire practice, American and European variants and developments are covered. The Chapter titles are: 1 - Extraneous Considerations, 2 - Tractive Force, Power, Adhesion and Resistance, 3 - Determination of other Leading Dimensions, 4 - Cardinal Points of Design, 5 - The Boiler, 6 - Boiler Mountings and Steam using Auxiliaries, 7 - Superheaters and Feed Water Heaters, 8 - The Smokebox, Blast Pipe and Chimney, 9 - The Engine, 10 - Valves, Ports and Valve Gears, 11 - Compound Expansion and 12 - Frames. Springs. Brakes. Flexibility on Curves. Tanks. Bunkers and Tenders. Superstructure. An Appendix then gives Ultimate Tensil Strength and other Particulars of Materials for Locomotive Construction, as specified by the British Standards Institution. If you want details of a ‘modern’ exhaust, Chapter 8 will be a disappointment, although the underlying information and formulæ are still correct. Conversely, whilst the detail in Chapter 10 is not so great as in “Locomotive Valves and Valve Gears”, it does include quite a lot of information on conjugated valve gears and Caprotti and other poppet or rotary valve gears. By its nature this book contains a lot of maths, but it also contains numerous drawings and diagrams, many originally in the form of fold out pages which were tipped in by hand. Whilst it is still possible to do this, nowadays it is extremely expensive and, as at least some of these pages have a direct relevance to the text, they are all being reproduced, sometimes slightly reduced in size, in a separate folder, so this is now effectively a two volume work (and only available as such). As the steam locomotive was at its zenith in 1936, it seems unlikely that a better book than this was published subsequently on the parameters of designing them - I am certainly not aware of one, so if you want to know how to calculate horsepower, driving wheel and cylinders sizes for a given power-output, the bearing surfaces required throughout the design for the intended power-output, the heating surface, hammer-blow, etc., etc. then this is the book for you. Book - 448 hardbound pages. Drawings - 35 drawings and charts, many A3 format, loose in a folder. Camden. Add to shopping basket

The Red Devil and other tales from the age of steam Wardale • £••.•• (A) This book is currently out of print, but by arrangement with David Wardale we hope to publish a new updated edition during 2008. Watch this site, our advertisements, or use the link below to email us asking to be notified when the new edition is available. Contact us

Advanced Steam Websites:

You can access a huge amount of information on developments in advanced steam.

www.trainweb.org/tusp/ "The Ultimate Steam Page" which has up-to-date news from around the world, and a huge number of links.

www.martynbane.co.uk/ More focused than the site above, and especially good on the work of L.D. Porta

www.5AT.co.uk The site of the 5AT project to build a modern, high speed 4-6-0 currently being designed by David Wardale.
"CMS are to be congratulated on their initiative in producing this superb little book - everything you ever wanted to know about valve gears, but were afraid to ask!" Nigel Harris - review in "Steam Railway"

Driving Steam Locomotives - an Introduction Holland & Ryder • £ 5.25 • (F) This book is based around the notes prepared for participants on a driving experience course to read before the day, so that they could extract the maximum possible enjoyment from their time on the footplate. However the notes have been considerably expanded to apply to any passenger hauling steam railway locomotive, from the model gauge of 21/2", through the other model, miniature and narrow gauges, up to 4'81/2" standard gauge. As all steam locomotives function in the same basic way whatever their size, the bulk of the book is all embracing, but a chapter covers the differences peculiar to the model and miniature gauges, making the book equally useful for the person who has just obtained a smaller steam locomotive, and requires a primer on how to operate and look after it. If you have ever looked at a steam locomotive and wondered "what does that do?", or "why is the driver doing this now?", then this is the book for you; it may not give you the knowledge to jump onto the footplate of Flying Scotsman and drive her non-stop from London to Edinburgh, but it will give you a good solid introduction to how a steam locomotive works, how it is driven, and the duties of the driver and fireman. Published by the SIÂN PROJECT GROUP which owns, maintains and operates this 15" gauge locomotive, profits from the sale of this book will help the Group to keep Siân is steam for many years to come, and available for those who would like to fulfil their dream of driving a steam locomotive. 48 A4 format pages.17 drawings and diagrams, 40 B & W photos. Softcover. Add to shopping basket

The Evolution of Locomotive Valve Gears Shields • £ 8.95 • (G) Interesting little book, based on a paper read in 1943, which looks at how locomotive valve gears evolved. It won’t help you check or design the valve gear on your engine, but it will help you understand the progression in valve gear design. 92 pages, illustrated with photos and diagrams. Paperback. TEE Publishing Add to shopping basket

Design Procedures for Walschaerts’ and Stephenson’s Valve Gears Ashton • £15.00 • (G) Revised, enlarged and renamed printing of Don Ashton’s book Walschaerts Valve Gear for Model Engineers & Stephenson’s Valve Gear for Model Engineers. This will help anyone improve their valve gear, be it on a model or a full-size engine. 40 pages. Softcover. Published by the author. Add to shopping basket

Die Dampflokomotive Schwarze, Deinert, Frase, Lange, Schmidt, Thumstädter & Wilke • £35.75 • (A) This is a reprint of the 1965 second edition of a book first published, at a guess, in the early 50s, written by a group of East German locomotive engineers. At over 950 pages it is a monumental technical look at German steam locomotive practice, especially that of the East German Deutsche Reichsbahn. There are many photos, and a huge number of part drawings, diagrams and the like, but to get the best from this book you do really need to be able to read German. If you can, and are interested in German steam locomotives, it is excellent value. Harbound. Transpress Add to shopping basket

Ministry of Supply 2-10-0 Austerity Engine & Tender 1945 • £13.95 • (E) Unlike cars, as far as I know steam locomotives didn’t generally come complete with an ‘Owner’s Guide’ but, presumably as they were initially government property, the British Austerity 2-10-0s did! Reprinted here, thanks to the kindness of John Payne, are 92 A4 pages of “Brief description with hints on maintenance and repair”. This sub-title is rather modest, as there is a huge amount of information here, split between a detail description of the design, and in particular its specification and a very specific description of the maintenance and repair schedule for the class, with 35 full page drawings of various parts of the locomotive, fittings on it, or tools for repairs. Parts include the firebox and firebox stays, fittings include pumps, clacks, brake valves etc.. This class of locomotive was intended to work overseas after the war, helping in the reconstruction of Europe’s railways and was configured and equipped accordingly - for example with multiple brake systems, and this book was presumably intended to help RE/ROD operating personnel look after them in far flung corners of Europe. If detailed maintenance schedules and instructions existed on British railways I have never seen them, but here you have a wealth of information on the subject, some mind boggling - the permitted amount of wear in crank and other pins before they were replaced, some bizarre - how to test lubricants and, in some cases, mix them, but all of it interesting, especially as this class contained features which were to be carried on to the British Railways Standard Classes. The original of this book was 92 pages, the text being typewritten and the whole lot printed on typical government paper of the period. We have left the typewriting, but improved the paper quality and printed the whole thing properly; this has resulted in 4 extra pages, so we have included some more general Ministry of Supply/RE drawings of various items of locomotive equipment - including the hand-brush. Add to shopping basket

‘Hunslet’ Austerity Locomotives Spare Parts List c. 1946 • £ 9.95 • (G) We have already brought you the ‘Owner’s Manual’ for one Austerity locomotive (above), so here is an equally rare offering - the Spare Parts list produced by Hunslet for their design of Austerity 0-6-0 tank locomotive. A list like this isn’t absolutely unique, as Lima produced one for their ‘Shay’ geared locomotives, but this is certainly unique, as far as I am aware, for a class of standard gauge road locomotives, and I am grateful to John Payne lending me his copy to reproduce. The ‘Austerity’ tanks were a large class, and post-war saw service on British Railways, industrial railways in the U.K, notably with the NCB, and on a number of overseas railways, including the Dutch railways plus, of course, with the Army; because of this spread of users, Hunslet clearly felt it worthwhile to produce this catalogue and 60 years on it certainly will be of interest to anyone running one of the many preserved examples, who has one of the commercial models in a number of gauges, or is modelling one in a larger scale. I do not believe it happened, but you could actually buy all the parts for one of these engines and assemble it yourself. The lists splits the locomotive into 9 separate sub-assemblies, then lists each part required in each assembly, complete with Part Number and quantity needed, and identifies each part on a very clear diagram or drawing - there being 11 of these, plus a photograph and a ‘Diagram’ drawing. There are no dimensions, other than on the ‘Diagram’ drawing and this could be used to scale many of the parts. To all this we have added a brief chapter kindly contributed by Andrew Neale telling the complex story of how the class came into being, who built them, and who used them. 32 landscape format pages in total. Soft-cover. Camden Add to shopping basket

The Engineering and History of Rocket - a survey report Bailey & Glithero • £29.95 • (A) Fascinating and very detailed book covering not only the history of George Stephenson’s Rocket, but also the engineering of her, with most of the information culled from a recent part-by-part survey. 186 page A4 format paperback. with a large quantity of illustrations, many being detailed isometric part drawings, as well as 90 colour illustrations and photos. Highly recommended. NRM Add to shopping basket

ESSENTIAL STEAM POWER LIBRARY:
Extracted from International Correspondence Schools textbooks of 1906, this series is a useful source of technical information for students of steam power, but readers should allow for the passing of time since they were printed and that they are largely concerned with stationary/marine steam power. 56, 82, 74, 38, 57and 59 pages respectively, all are paperbacks and illustrated with drawings and diagrams Lindsay Publications

Entropy and Steam • £ 3.95 • (G) Add to shopping basket

Valve Gears • £ 5.95 • (G) Add to shopping basket

Steam-Engine Indicators and Mechanics of the Steam Engine • £ 5.40 • (G) Add to shopping basket

Heat • £ 5.95 • (G) Add to shopping basket

Simple and Compound Steam Engines • £ 6.60 • (G) Add to shopping basket

Steam-Engine Governors • £ 5.40 • (G) Add to shopping basket

Modern Steam Engines {1887} • Rose • £21.95 • (A) This is the same book we carried until a couple of years ago in a Lindsay reprint. Now it is back as one from Astragal Press, but they are identical, even down to price. “An Elementary Treatise upon the Steam Engine, written in plain language; for use in the Workshop as well as the Drawing Office giving Full Explanations of the Construction of Modern Steam Engines”, this is devoted almost exclusively to stationary and marine engines of the 1880s. The first 143 pages deal with valve gears and, especially, valves, whilst the remaining 175 pages cover various makes of engine, condenser, etc.. A super book with loads of engravings and drawings. Large format paperback. Add to shopping basket

A Catechism of High Pressure or Non-Condensing Steam Engines {1874} • Roper • £ 7.95 • (E) Aimed at the worker in 1874 who wanted to improve himself, this is a simple book that taught the basic lessons of essential technology with questions and answers; you get a basic education in air, heat, steam, boilers of different types, safety valves, chimneys, grate bars, steam engines, knocking in engines, indicators, governors, injectors, steam-pumps, centrifugal pumps, piston-rod packing, incrustation, boiler explosions, belting, history, a glossary of terms and more. There really is a lot of information here, and whilst some of it was to be overtaken by developments in steam power, as a basic primer this is good. 218 modestly illustrated pages, but with many useful table. Paperback. Lindsay Publications Add to shopping basket

The Early Development of the Steam Engine Hulse • £11.95 • (G) This is David Hulse’s series from Engineering in Miniature brought together in book form. It is a masterly look at development of the stationary steam engine from 1700 to c1800, concentrating on Newcomen’s Dudley Castle Engine, and Watt’s Smethwick Engine, but digressing in all sorts of interesting directions. Underlying the whole research was the intention to build models of both engines, as located in their engine houses, a task now accomplished, with the models being exhibited. But this isn’t a ‘construction series’ in any form, even if there are interesting hints and tips in this direction, rather it is a good technical history of the birth of steam power. 159 well illustrated pages. TEE Publishing Add to shopping basket

The Development of Rotary Motion by Steam Power Hulse • £11.95 • (F) Following up to the book above, here David Hulse concentrates on two engines which were significant steps in the development of steam power. They are the first engine to achieve rotary motion by the use of a crank and flywheel, and the first engine to have its rotational speed controlled by a governor. More good information for historians and modellers on the early stationary steam engine. 146 pages. 92 drawings and B & W photos. Paperback TEE Publishing Add to shopping basket

Drawings of the Levant Whim Rowe • £ 6.99 • (E) You won’t find many sets of drawings around for a scale beam engine at this price - in fact I doubt if you will find any. The only snag with these is that they are of a full size engine, and not constant scale. The engine concerned is the 24 inch whim, or winding, engine built in 1840 by Harvey & Co of Hayle, and installed at the famed Levant Mine near St. Just, Cornwall which was the first Cornish Beam Engine preserved - in 1935. Restoration to working order was undertaken between 1984 and 1992, and it was whilst this was being done that the engine was measured up and the drawings which form this book delineated. In fact because of work involved in the restoration, the result is that the drawings show the engine in its 1930s state rather than its restored one. The original idea for the drawings was to make a scale model of the engine, and there is certainly more than enough information here for the skilled model engineer to do just that. 56 relevant drawings, plus a lot of additional information in the text pages. Super value 79 page paperback. The Trevithick Society Add to shopping basket

Steam Engine Design 1898 • £ 8.90 • (E) Useful book on the technicalities of steam engine design, mainly for stationary & marine engines. Drawings and formulae for every aspect, inc Corliss Engines. 192 pages. Paperback. Lindsay Publications. Add to shopping basket

Steam Engine Principles – their Application on a Small Scale Calvert • £ 8.00 • (F) Good book on steam power, including lots of data on engines, boilers, evaporation, combustion etc. Leans towards steamboating practice, which was the author’s love, but there is a great deal here for anyone interested in the technicalities of steam power. 130 page illustrated paperback. Calvert Technical Press. Add to shopping basket

Steam Tables and other Data for Steam Enthusiasts £ 1.00 • (H) Companion to the book above, now you can do your own calculations! Add to shopping basket

Steam Propelled Vehicles [1914] • Homans • £5.95 • (G) This reprint contains the steam vehicle chapters from a 1914 work, Self Propelled Vehicles, which in this context meant motor cars. The information on the steam engines used is just about adequate, but where this book is really hot (ha!) is on the boilers, notably flash steam ones, burners and regulators, boiler attachments and automatic regulating devices, and the systems used by various manufacturers. Useful book on a little covered form of steam power. 90 heavily illustrated pages. Paperback. Lindsay Publications Add to shopping basket

Boilers - Types & Design 1907 • £ 8.20 • (F) Taken from ICS courses, this book is in three sections - the first covers types of boiler, and if there is a type it doesn’t cover I can’t see what it is. Secondly, you investigate boiler design: proportions, power and construction, with all the associated formulas required. The last section covers construction methods. This is really good stuff, but do remember it does come from 1907, so whilst the basic information remains sound, construction methods, and safety standards have changed. It also only covers full size boilers. It is contains designs the model engineer can use in outline, and a lot of other useable information though! Very well illustrated 134 page paperback. Lindsay Publications Add to shopping basket

The LNER CLass B1 Locomotive Boiler Haigh • £ 5.00 • (G) An extremely thorough and interesting technical study of the boiler of one particular British locomotive class, analysing the original design, and suggesting how it could be considerably improved, both to comply with present constructional requirements, and in the light of thermodynamic advances since the original was designed. And all at a very reasonable price! 36 A4 format pages, with drawings, facts, formulae and text. Softcover. Published by the author. Add to shopping basket

Locomotive Breakdowns Emergencies & their Remedies 1903 • Fowler • £ 9.95 • (E) Ignore the locomotive on the front cover, this is an American book. And it is interesting, being intended to help the driver (sorry – engineer) get his locomotive home if just about anything broke; a few of the remedies could only have been done in the works, but most are practical remedies for broken frames, accidents to the valves, cylinders, running gear etc., pump and injector troubles and so on, down to emergency first-aid. Mainly of historical interest, but some of this could be useful on preserved lines. 244 pages. 96 drawings. Paperback. Lindsay Publications. Add to shopping basket