Locomotives of the Victorian Railway: The Early Days of Steam

by Anthony Dawson

In the quarter of a century between 1830 and 1855, the railway locomotive developed from the small sisters of Rocketto the broad gauge monsters of Daniel Gooch, with a boiler pressure nearly three times that of Rocketand weighing in at nearly 40 tons (eight times the weight of Rocket). There was a marked increase in loads, speeds and reliability as the railways spread across the country from their cradle in the North West, with several thousands of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 144567761X
• ISBN13: 9781445677613
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"