oldpway.info 1990s Guide page

This page provides a guide to sources of information about old permanent way published in 1990s. The guide includes books, papers, articles, reports and webpages. It provides brief details, description of contents and links to further details and on-line reading.

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Guide to 1990s Published Sources

The published sources are arranged in order of publication year, then alphabetically by author. Each source is given a unique identifier (called an opwID) and has the following links if available.

 "Author"  Link to author biography.
 "Details"  Link to further details of the source.
 "Read"  Link to read source on-line on oldpway.info.
 "Read on another website"  Link to read source on-line on another website.
 "Nth ed. opwID"  Link to entry for another edition.
 "Also opwID"  Link to entry for another work by same author.

Link to end of 1980s Guide page.

Bate_1999, HMRS Journal article, Details, Read, See also Worthington_1900 and Worthington_1900_drawings.
"Pre-Grouping Points and Crossings", by Ernest M Bate.

An article about the design of points and crossings by pre-grouping railways, with particular reference to the drawings in the 1900 IRC paper "British Railways Points and Crossings" by W B Worthington. (But when the article was written, the source of the drawings was unknown and they were thought to date from about 1905.) Includes table of turnout leads for different switch sizes and crossing angles, as used by North Eastern Railway in 1908.

Link to start of 2000s Guide page.