Locomotive Construction

Abstract

OF all the many branches of engineering, that of locomotive engineering has been generally over-looked by the writers of text-books, and until quite recently the only works on this important subject were the classical works of Z. Colburn and D. K. Clerk, “Locomotive Engineering and the Mechanism of Railways,” and “Railway Machinery.” These works are more than twenty years old, and do not now represent modern practice, although the rules and formulæ given are largely made use of to this day, besides which the experimental data obtained by D. K. Clerk on the old Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, some time before the year 1855, may still be regarded as of great value.

The Construction of the Modern Locomotive.

By George Hughes. Pp. 260. (London: E. and F. N. Spon, 1894.)