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Sir Arthur Heywood & the 15” Gauge Railway by M.Smithers
Published by Plateway Press. Definitive history of the Victorian railway engineer and his 15” gauge railways. Heywood conceived the idea of 15in as the minimum gauge for serious railway operation, and devoted much of his life to promoting the concept. Includes full description of Heywood’s railways at Dove Leys, Duffield Bank and Eaton Hall, plus notes on other railways (notably the Ravenglass and Eskdale) which his work influenced. The book includes full details of both locomotives and rolling stock.
Hardback, 280mm x 215mm. 184 pages, 130 photographs, 37 maps & scale drawings. ISBN 7-871980-22-4.
Still available from publisher at £22.95
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Sir Arthur Heywood's Minimum Gauge Railways
This is the 1974 Turntable Publications reprint of Sir Arthur Heywood's 3rd edition dated July 1898.In this he describes the objects of the 15" gauge and details the construction of the Duffield Bank and Eaton Hall Lines, wagons and locomotives.
Hardback, 254mm x 187mm. 59 pages, plus 23 photographs, maps & scale drawings. Turntable Publications, 1974. ISBN 0 902844 26 1. Original published price £2.65.
Now out of print and scarcely available second hand. (I have never seen an original 1898 copy) |
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The Duffield Bank and Eaton Railways by Howard Clayton
The author describes and illustrates the setting up of the Heywood workshops and the Duffield Bank Railway, its forty years of active fife and the busy existance of its offshoot the Eaton Railway. The author also follows the story of the Dove Leys railway and traces the history of items of rolling stock which found their way to other railways.
Published by The Oakwood Press in 1968, price 30s. Hardback with sepia dust jacket, 222x147mm, 92 pages with 31 B&W prints plus drawings and maps.
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