CONTENTS

• Introduction
• Constitution of the Four Pre-Grouping Railway Companies
• British Locomotive Superintendents and Chief Mechanical Engineers
• Standard Locomotive Headlamp Code
• British Railways Livieries
• List of Colour Plates
• Whyte Wheel Arrangement
• British Railways Shed Code
• Method of Identifying a Locomotive by its Number
• Particulars and Illustrations of Locomotives
• British Railways steam
• British Railways Electric
• British Railways Diesel
• Alphabetical list of British railways named engines
• Independent and privately owned railways
• Isle of Man
• Notes on Irish Railways
• Northern Ireland (Ulster Transport Authority)
• Irish Republic (Coras Iomhair Eireann)