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How Steam Locomotives Really Work

Hardcover • 2000 • English

How Steam Locomotives Really Work

By Semmens, P. W. B., Goldfinch, A. J.

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Steam locomotives were developed in the early part of the 19th Century, initially by Trevithick, and then most successfully by George Stephenson, whose engine Locomotion inaugurated the famous Stockton and Darlington Railway in 1825. For the next 150 years, steam locomotives were further developed and refined, until the advent of new electrical technology superseded them. Although British Railways operated its last main-line steam locomotives in 1968, there is still immense interest in the large...Show more

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Locomotives and rolling stock

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9780198565369

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

How Steam Locomotives Really Work

Format

Hardcover

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