LM - Locomotives, Rolling Stock and Shipping
See also Section TO – Trains: Operating Them and Organising Them.
This category also includes rolling stock such as GER wagons and details of the shipping fleet BR inherited.
LM042 Cambridge District passenger locomotives - their renumbering during 1946 and 1947
NEW MARCH 2018. The Cambridge District of the LNER compiled a monthly report on the condition of eac..
£0.80
LM043 BR Class 08 Diesel-Electric Shunters - Driver's Instructions
NEW MARCH 2018. Drivers' instructions B.R.33003/252 (22 pages plus four fold-out fault sheets) for B..
£0.70
LM044 Locomotives of the LNER 1947
NEW MARCH 2018. The LNER issued this 68-page booklet in 1947. It describes their engine policies at ..
£0.80
LM045 BR DMU Fault Finding 1966
NEW MARCH 2018. This is a sixteen-page booklet entitled 'Fault Finding Chart for Diesel Mechanical R..
£0.50
LM046 Good Firing Techniques, BR 1956
NEW MAY 2018. This is a pocket-sized 32-page booklet entitled 'Good Firemanship'. It has card covers..
£0.80
LM047 Oil-burning Locomotives, 1940s
NEW JULY 2018. In the period between the end of World War Two and nationalisation, all four railways..
£1.00
LM048 The Stone-Vapor Steam Generator
NEW JULY 2018. Carriages were once heated by steam, which presented a problem when diesel loco..
£0.70
LM049 Diagrams of LNER Steam Cranes c.1940s
NEW AUGUST 2018. This file provides diagrams for five LNER steam cranes. They are 961001, a 5-..
£1.00
LM050 The Walschaert Valve Gear, c.1920s.
NEW APRIL 2019. Nearly everyone has heard of the Walschaert valve gear, but hardly anyone know..
£0.80
LM051 The GER Little Sharpies
NEW APRIL 2019. This file contains material from the 1943 volume of the magazine Railways. The main..
£1.00
LM052 Steam Rail Cars and Sentinel Locomotives, LNER 1933.
NEW JUNE 2019. The main part of this file is a hardback pocket-sized book produced by the LNER and p..
£2.00
LM053: Wagons for exceptional loads, LNER 1929.
NEW AUGUST 2020. This is an article from the July 1929 edition of the magazine The Railway Engineer...
£0.50
LM054: Original Brush Type 4 Operating Manual, 1967.
NEW DECEMBER 2020. The Brush Type 4's became the long-lived Class 47's. When purchasing one of the o..
£1.20
LM055: The Workings of a 'Claud Hamilton' Locomotive from a 1907 Engineering Book.
NEW JANUARY 2021. This consists of extracts from the book 'Steam and Other Engines' by J Duncan, pub..
£1.00
LM056: Locomotives of the M&GN Joint Railway 1877-1936.
NEW JANUARY 2021. During the course of 1950, the magazine Railway Pictorial and Locomotive Revi..
£0.80
LM057: GER Appropriations Book, 1879.
NEW JUNE 2021, amended July 2021. The GER adopted a system for numbering their Works orders which wa..
£1.20
LM058: Classification of Special Wagons, BR 1956.
NEW DECEMBER 2021. This is a 48-page card-covered book issued by the British Transport Commission on..
£0.80
LM059: Ian Allen ABC of LNER Locomotives, Renumbering Edition 1947.
NEW DECEMBER 2021. This is the first time we have been able to offer full details of the major 1947 ..
£1.00
LM060: Holden's 0-6-0T Jubilee Tank Engines, with some Notes on their Work.
NEW JANUARY 2022. During 1945 the magazine 'Railways' produced a series of four articles entitled "T..
£1.00
LM061: The Locomotive Handbook, 1906.
NEW FEBRUARY 2022. This Handbook was produced by the Locomotive Publishing Company in 1906. It is ba..
£0.70
LM062: Drivers' Traction Manual for the Class 73/0 and 73/1 Locomotives.
NEW FEBRUARY 2022. The class 73 locomotives were electro-diesel - they could pick up power from the ..
£1.00
LM063: The Ships taken over by British Railways, 1948.
NEW APRIL 2022. This is an 84-page hard cover book issued by the Railway Executive (British Ra..
£1.00
LM064: Train Crew Manual for Class 08, 09 and 13 Locomotives, BR 1980.
NEW SEPTEMBER 2022. This is a 40-page booklet for train crews responsible for diesel shunters of cla..
£0.80
LM065: Class 37 Locomotives - their Preparation, Disposal and Fault Finding, BR 1967.
NEW SEPTEMBER 2022. This is a 29-page booklet covering English Electric Type 3 1750 HP diesel electr..
£0.80
LM066: Driving Instructions for various classes of locomotives, BR 1978.
NEW SEPTEMBER 2022. This 16-page paper-covered booklet was issued by British Rail as its issue 5 in ..
£0.80
LM067: Fault-Finding for Class 47 Locomotives, BR 1980.
NEW JANUARY 2023. File LM054 is a handbook from 1967, produced during the early days of the class 47..
£0.80
LM068: The Story of the North British Locomotive Co Ltd, 1953.
NEW JANUARY 2023. The North British Locomotive Company Limited was formed in Glasgow in 1903 by the ..
£1.00
LM069: Studies in Steam No. 2, 1949.
NEW FEBRUARY 2023. What is available here is a set of scans of a 36-page book containing about..
£0.80
LM070: Survey of modern freight rolling stock, British Railways 1952.
NEW JANUARY 2024. In September 1952 British Railways held an exhibition of modern freight roll..
£0.80
LM071: Exhibition of new passenger rolling stock, British Railways 1957.
NEW JANUARY 2024. In June 1957 British Railways held an exhibition of passenger rolling stock ..
£0.80
LM072: Some pages rescued from a skip at Stratford Works!
NEW March 2024. These are a set of five foolscap pages retrieved from a bin at Stratford Works. They..
£0.50
LM073: Wagons for exceptional freight loads, LNER 1929.
NEW MARCH 2024. This is a 48-page card-covered book produced by the LNER in May 1929 with the ..
£0.90
LM074: From the Cab, 2019-2023.
NEW MAY 2024. 'The Driver' (he is anonymous) works for Greater Anglia at their Colchester depo..
£2.00
LM075: Operating manual for BR Class 45 locomotives D11-D137.
NEW JANUARY 2025. This is a 76-page card-covered book providing an operarting manual for Briti..
£1.00
LM076: The Railwayman's Diesel Manual, W F Bolton 1958.
NEW JANUARY 2025. This is a 124-page hard-back book first published by G H Lake in 1956. What ..
£1.00
LM077: The record of a footplate run on 'Petrolea', GER 1894.
NEW APRIL 2025. In 1894 Charles Rous-Marten was given permission to ride on the footplate of G..
£0.80
MG011: 'The 'Locomotive Express' Volume 2, 1947.
NEW JULY 2020. The Locomotive Express was an unpretentious monthly magazine, produced by railwaymen ..
£1.00
MG012: 'Railway Notes' Volume 1, 1909.
NEW AUGUST 2020. A complete set of Volumes 1, 2 and 3 is now also offered - see RN.DL. If you ..
£1.50
PL001 Norwich Thorpe in the 1950s
NEW AUGUST 2016. A set of 25 snapshots taken at Norwich Thorpe during the 1950s. What each picture m..
£2.00
PL002 March Locomotive Depot in 1955
NEW AUGUST 2016. A set of 20 black-and-white photographs taken at March locomotive depot in 1955. T..
£2.00
PL003 The B17s and the B2s
NEW APRIL 2017. This deals with the B17s and B2s built by the LNER - the Sandringhams and the Footba..
£2.00
RE048 Atmospheric Railways, early 1840's.
NEW MAY 2020. In the early days of railways, the means of haulage was still very much an open ..
£1.20
RG024 Railways of the Millwall and India Docks
NEW SEPTEMBER 2017. The first page is a plate from a photograph of a Royal Albert Docks train, which..
£1.00
RH046 The M&GN and its Locomotives - Part 1
NEW OCTOBER 2017. In 1921 and 1922 the Locomotive Magazine featured a major series entitled 'T..
£1.00
RH047 The M&GN and its Locomotives - Part 2
NEW OCTOBER 2017. In 1921 and 1922 the Locomotive Magazine featured a major series entitled 'T..
£1.00
RH067 James Holden
NEW APRIL 2019. James Holden was the GER's Locomotive Superintendent from 1885 to 1907. The main par..
£0.80
RH103: Robert Ritchie on Railways, Longman's 1846.
NEW APRIL 2025. This is a 450-page book, published in 1846. Robert Ritchie described himself a..
£1.50
RN.DL: 'Railway Notes' Volumes 1 to 3, 1909-1911.
NEW OCTOBER 2023. The volumes of Railway Notes appear to be quite rare items. Robert Humm wrot..
£3.00
RW011 The 'Locomotive Engineers and Firemen's Monthly Journal' for 1896.
NEW JULY 2020. The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen (ASLEF) was formed in 1880..
£1.20
RW018: Locomen's Promotion, LNER and NUR 1925.
NEW JANUARY 2024. This booklet was apparently issued jointly in 1925 by the National Union of ..
£0.80