Advanced Steam Websites: You can access a huge amount of information on developments in advanced steam, or on the steam world, through the following:
http://martynbane.co.uk
More focused than the site below, and especially good on the work of L.D. Porta
http://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.5AT.co.uk
The site of the 5AT project to build a modern, high speed 4-6-0 designed by David Wardale.
http://www.dlm-ag.ch
Site of DLM AG, home of Roger Waller, the builder of new rack locomotives, and restorer of many other locomotives - a lot of useful info here.
Camden Staff hard at work
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amv59PKn9uM&feature=player_embedded The Boss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69zkJ6fxgGA&feature=player_embedded The Boy (spot the difference!)
Advanced Stirling/Hot Air engine website:
http://web.me.com/allan.j.o/Communicable_Insight/FastTrack.html The site of Allan J. Organ, Cambridge Professor, and one of the world's leading stirling engine men, especially on their thermodynamicsModel Engineering:
www.colinusher.info
Great site with lots of useful info and links
Tremendous e-Magazine for model engineers - highly recommended
www.southernfed.co.uk
Southern Federation of Model Engineering Societies
NATIONAL SOCIETIES:
http://www.gaugeone.org/
Home page of The Gauge 1 Model Railway Association
Home page of The Stirling Engine Society
http://www.trevithick-society.org.uk Home page of the Trevithick Society
http://www.steamboat.org.uk
Home page of The Steamboat Association of Great Britain
http://www.sevenandaquarter.org/
Home page of The 71/4 in. Gauge Society
http://www.16mm.org.uk/
Home page of the 16mm Narrow Gauge Association
Home page of the SNCF Society which covers ALL French railways
OTHERS (I just happen to like!):
(If you think I should put a link to your site on a reciprocal basis, draw my attention to it by emailing details to:info@camdenmin.co.uk)
Lovely site commemorating the lively and joyful work of wood-engraver Derrick Harris who, in the 1950s was possibly the most distinctive British wood engraver and illustrator then working. His work is both redolent of the best of the Fifties and, at the same time, timeless. A lovely man who just happened to be my Uncle.
Where all the Camden Land-Rovers have come from.
http://www.keswickminingmuseum.co.uk
Founded by Ian Tyler, whose books you will find in the 'Mining' section, there is a great deal of information on all types of mining in Cumbria here, all in a reamrkably compact museum in the heart of Keswick.
http://www.threlkeldquarry.co.uk
Huge collection of excavators and quarrying equipment located in a quarry a few miles east of Keswick. Also has a spectacular 2' gauge railway on which Bagnall 'Sir Tom' is a regular performer.
http://steam-up.co.uk/links.htm
Good steam and traction engine links
http://www.ravenglass-railway.co.uk
Entry page for the Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
http://www.perrygrove.co.uk/
Entry page for the 15" gauge Perrygrove Railway in the Forest of Dean - the nearest thing to Sir Arthur Heywood's Duffield Bank Railway.
http://www.trendelfindelmundo.com.ar/
Site for the 50 cm gauge Ferrocarril Austral Fuegino, or Tren del Fin del Mundo, in Tierra del Fuego, the most southerly railway in the world, and the one regularly operating the most advanced steam locomotives in the world.
http://www.peintredurail.com
Chris Ludlow - railway painter extraordinaire
http://www.simonbowditchillustrations.co.uk/
Simon Bowditch - another good railway artist - site has some interesting links as well.
www.cat.org.uk/index.tmpl?refer=index&init=1
The Centre for Alternative Technology
http://www.lakelandcam.co.uk/
Lakeland Cam - superb photos of Cumbria, updated virtually daily, and with links to other similar sites around the U.K.
http://cdbaby.com
CD baby - a fabulous source of ALL types of music Cds at very reasonable prices
http://www.cowdance.com/
The Cow Dance - don't ask - just look!
