railway engineering history
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Potters Bar Rebuilt: A 1956 Account of Main Line Reconstruction and Station Modernisation
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First published in the January 1956 issue of The Railway Magazine, this article documents the reconstruction of Potters Bar Station and the quadruplication of the East Coast main line through the site. Reproduced here as a historical retrospective, it offers a contemporary account of the engineering, architectural design and passenger facilities introduced as part of…
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A New Great Western Standard: The Design and Significance of Locomotive No. 1000
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There has long been a peculiar and enduring interest in new locomotive designs emerging from Swindon. For decades, the works of the Great Western Railway have set benchmarks for locomotive engineering in Britain, and it has become increasingly clear how deeply engineers across the industry have been influenced by Swindon practice. By the mid-1940s, it…
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