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Deeds of a Great Railway


DEEDS OF A GREAT RAILWAY


Portrait of C. J. Bowen-Cooke

[Frontispiece.

Signature of C. J. Bowen-Cooke

Chief Mechanical Engineer, London and North-Western Railway.


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DEEDS OF A GREAT RAILWAY

A RECORD OF THE ENTERPRISE AND ACHIEVEMENTS

OF THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN

RAILWAY COMPANY DURING

THE GREAT WAR

By G. R. S. DARROCH

(CROIX DE GUERRE)

ASSISTANT TO THE CHIEF MECHANICAL ENGINEER L. & N.W.R.

WITH A PREFACE BY

L. J. MAXSE

With Illustrations

"The Railway Executive Committee have
been too modest, the public do not know
what they achieved."—Engineering.

LONDON

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1920


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ERRATA.

Page 120, footnote, for said the Tsar, read said of the Tsar.

" 149, line 22, for Walschaerte valve appertaining, read Walschaerte valve gear appertaining.

" 162, line 23, for mileage of permanent available read mileage of permanent way available.


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FOREWORD

"Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent," is a golden and an olden precept, one moreover that may, or may not, impel the aspiring rhetorician to beware the pitfalls which ever and anon threaten to ensnare his footsteps; and in compiling this little work the present Author has not been unmindful of at least two dilemmas with which he has felt himself to be faced; one, the danger of toying with that "little knowledge" which in the course of his professional duties h

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