Model Engineer Index 1898 to Feb 2025

Year 2022
Date 21-Oct
Volume 229
Issue 4,702
Page 564
Category Railway
Part 2
Title Victorian Silent Speed. The atmospheric railway and its successors
Author Roger Backhouse
Notes Looks at what seemed a good idea at the time. The longest atmospheric failure? The South Devon, William Dawson, (Carol Morgan, Institution of Civil Engineers 2009), the pumping engines, Newton Station, operating the South Devon, Turf engine house, Paris St Germain, anticipating high speed railways, further developments, Sprey Point near Teignmouth, the 'Lampson Room' in Fairheads shop in Cranbrook Road Ilford, present day atmospherics, Dawlish sea wall, relics of the atmospheric railway, Starcross engine house, references