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RM Article: City of Truro - Posted: August 1, 2015 - 9:51 AM Quote and reply
The August 2015 Railway Magazine includes an article about City of Truro.

A bibliography used by the researcher, RPS member Bill Hemstock, has been added to our web-site.

Details are in the INFO section towards the foot of the left-hand side bar.



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Re: RM Article: City of Truro - Posted: August 11, 2015 - 4:37 PM Quote and reply
6003f said:
The August 2015 Railway Magazine includes an article about City of Truro.

A bibliography used by the researcher, RPS member Bill Hemstock, has been added to our web-site.

Details are in the INFO section towards the foot of the left-hand side bar.



The following sources may also be of interest:

31st Dec 1897 The Engineer p652 Charles Rous-Marten description of timing method.

October 1905 Bulletin of the International Railway Congress p2118 First published account of the speed attained.

1983 British Railway Journal - John Lewis - new estimate of weight of train.

December 2005 BackTrack
Andrews, David. "From our own Correspondent". [Charles Rous-Marten's account of City of Truro's exploits in a Wellington (New Zealand) newspaper, The Evening Post on 17 June 1904]. 725-30.

February 2008 BackTrack
Andrews, David. Special experimental tests – more pieces of the City of Truro puzzle. 118-21

September 2014 BackTrack
David Andrews. Mails, steam and speed. 522-30.

Books:
City of Truro: Main Line Centenarian by M Rutherford
City of Truro A Locomotive Legend by Nigel Harris
The Standard Gauge Great Western 4-4-0s (Parts 1 and 2) O S Nock
60 Years of Western Express Running O S Nock
Speed Records on Britain's Railways O S Nock


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