Colonel Stephens Light Railway Locomotives

by Brian Janes

Holman Fred Stephens (1868-1931) set himself up in the 1890s as an engineer and manager of the complete light railway as evolved by Victorian theorists to serve rural districts as yet bereft of the benefit of cheaper transport. To them, a light railway was not an assemblage of second-hand mainline equipment of dubious merit but of fit for purpose, new material. This ideal theory did not survive the near universal inability to raise sufficient capital...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399023438
• ISBN13: 9781399023436
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
• Length: 176 Pages