reverted (10/58), 5023 (2/38) reverted (3/53), 5026 (2/37) reverted (1/59), 5027 (12/36), 5040 (11/36), 5045 (11/54), 5047 (1/37), 45049 (7/54) reverted (8/59), 5054 (1/37), 5057 (11/37), 5058 (11/37), 5059 (7/45), 45066 (4/60), 45082 (12/56*), 45087 (9/55) (12/60*), 5097 (1/37), 5108 (6/45), 45109 (5/48), 5142 (12/37), 45151 (3/51), 45163 (5/61), 45169 (7/55), 45197 (5/60) I think I would have preferred this if I hadn't read XX first. The best bit about this book is that it uses clever images, font changes and sizes to supplement the story, but this also happens in XX, and XX is, to me, a superior story. Rowledge, J. W. P.; Reed, Brian (1984) [1977]. The Stanier 4-6-0s of the LMS. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-7385-4. Cook, A.F. (1999). Raising Steam on the LMS. Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-85-1. The equivalent of London’s brand-new Elizabeth line . . . vast, shiny and very, very deep' - The Times, ‘Best Summer Reads’

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The collision of a locomotive with carriages at Great Central Railway's Loughborough Central station, 4 February 2006" (PDF). Rail Accidents Investigation Branch. July 2006 . Retrieved 12 May 2014. TBL is an urban fantasy, in a similar vein to Mieville's Kraken, with a touch of Boy's Own adventure. It's a solid mystery with a mostly satisfying ending. It does feel like there needs to be a sequel, which I will eagerly await. David Hunt, Bob Essery and Fred James with David Jennison and David Clarke LMS Locomotive Profiles (three volumes, three pictorial supplements): Truly brilliant, London, it’s architecture and it’s beating heart laid bare. A graphic novel that tells a modern and up to date tale and an exploration of the world we live in. Austin appropriately surveys and discusses motor cars and their makes in the somehow regrouped or devastated overground central London (cars with inferred synchromesh, “fuel tolerances and net torque” &c.) as part of this book’s potential pattern of chaos theory or butterfly effect, cause and effect, serendipity, coincidence, gestalt …’synchronised shards of random truth & fiction’ (‘&’ or ‘and’) having been an expression that has long been googleable…Rian Hughes’s books sit somewhere between literature and art. There is an exciting sci-fi thriller narrative here, interspersed with technical drawings and photographs of urban landscapes. The novel works as both a story with a beginning, middle, and end, but also as an ode to progress. A love letter to London; old and new. Suddenly there’s drama, there’s metallic creativity, and there’s a club that comes together to help others help London just because of the belonging this simple common interest binds them together by. On a personal note, it was also pretty cool to get some of the older references to shows like The Prisoner.

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Rian Hughe's books are hard to describe using words. They're beautiful, weird, unsettling, GORGEOUS and unlike anything I have ever come across. You have to get hard copies of Hughe's work because reading it is an experience and you need to really see the design to understand that. During the daily excavations, yet another new discovery is unearthed, though this time it’s not Roman ruins or the bones of kings and dinosaurs but an enormous chamber, deep below the surface of London. Its construction ancient and its purpose enigmatic… Old technology gives way to the new. Progress is inevitable - but is it more fragile than its inhabitants realise?We are now entering the nitty gritty, I feel. And this is compelling stuff to ‘tally and cross-reference’ as Rutherford comes into his own by dint of our visiting his idiosyncratic and entropic apartment – entropic because he had never found its heating thermostat? All the piping vestigial. For whom could it have been built or whom had been created to fit it? What do I know? I enjoyed the story itself as well, although it had its flaws. The characters all felt distinct, and I felt like I never came to properly understand any of them (to varying degrees). I think this was a deliberate part of the style rather than a failing. It seemed as though the characters were supposed to be like people you meet, and might understand sides of, but never know inside out. All the same, this meant I wasn't quite so invested in the characters or what became of them.

The Black Locomotive Review: It’s rail-y good - SciFiNow

Rian Hughes' books are indeed unique; they do not resemble anything else I can think of. This one makes no exception, although I think I should have read it later; it's too similar in concept as XX, and that's why it didn't blow me away like the first one did. Only surviving example having a boiler with top feed on the front ring in conjunction with Walschaerts valve gear.The use of graphics to enhance the story works well here. Most of them aren't really illustrations - few of them actually represent something in the story. Instead they're more there for the feel, and to add context. Occasionally they're funny, and add a twist of humour on top of the text. I appreciate it. Awdry, Wilbert; Awdry, G. (1987). The Island of Sodor: Its People, History and Railways. Kaye & Ward. ISBN 0-434-92762-7. Right there I was intrigued as to how this story was going to unfold. There are distinctive characters who we are introduced to that play vital roles in answering these questions and some unexpected mysteries are solved along the way.