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Title: The Railway Data File.
Description: First Edition; Med. 4to; pp. 144; text illustrated with numerous coloured and b/w. photographs and drawings, bound in original slick illustrated boards, dustjacket, very good copy. Leicester; Blitz Editions; 1999. The book delves into the detail and minutiae from fireboxes and blastpipes to smokebox numberplates and locomotive whistles, from live-steam injectors and water guages to superheating and locomotive lubrication. The workings of the diesel engine, turbochargers and diesel headcodes, plus notes on catenary cables, pantographs and thyristors, different types of wheel arrangements, tyres, suspension systems, bearings, couplings and buffers.

Keywords: trails railways