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33: 185:(a smokeless fuel) in their locomotives, but this was much more expensive than coal, and several locomotive engineers sought a method by which coal could be burned smokelessly. One such engineer was McConnell, who designed a boiler suitable for coal in 1852. 582: 201: 562: 530: 572: 478: 567: 181:
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Locomotives of the LNWR Southern Division – London & Birmingham Railway and Wolverton Locomotive Works.
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McConnell of the Mechanicals: The Story of the Founding of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
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Bygone Bromsgrove: an illustrated story of the town in days gone by
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Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers
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The civils: the story of the Institution of Civil Engineers
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Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway
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Index


Fermoy
Great Missenden
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
London and North Western Railway
London and North Western Railway
Locomotive Superintendent
Wolverton railway works
Bloomer
Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Bromsgrove
Fermoy
County Cork
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
Rainhill Trials
coke
Great Missenden
Locomotives of the London and North Western Railway
Watson 1988
Awdry 1981


Marshall 1978
Long & Awdry 1987
Ahrons 1987
Ahrons 1987
Ahrons 1987
Ahrons, E.L.
ISBN
1-85170-103-6

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