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First published in Great Britain in 2016 by
Pen & Sword Transport
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Pen & Sword Books Ltd
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Copyright © Mark Smithers 2016
ISBN: 978 1 47384 400 1
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Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Photo Gallery
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Decline and Fall 1945–94
Narrow-Gauge Locomotives 1871–1971
Standard-Gauge Locomotives 1875–1967
Rolling Stock Used Within the Arsenal
Surviving Remains
The Formative Years of the Railway System
Railway Experiments of the 1870s and 1880s
Consolidation and ‘The Lull Before the Storm’
The System’s Finest Hour
The Aftermath of the Armistice and a New
Conflict
Appendix I: Royal Arsenal Railway Officials 1905–55
Appendix II: RAR Mechanical Engineering Department Details
Appendix III: Lieutenant Colonel Hemming’s Comparison Tables for
Operational Data before and during the First World War
Appendix IV: Locomotives Bought or Hired during the First World War
(standard-gauge)
Appendix V: Locomotive Disposals during the First World War (standard-
gauge)
Appendix VI: Locomotive Statistics as at 4 August 1914 and 11 November
1918 (standard-gauge)
Appendix VII: Details of the narrow-gauge Manning Wardle Locomotives
for the Royal Arsenal
Appendix VIII: Details of standard-gauge Manning Wardle locomotives
Supplied to the Royal Arsenal
Appendix IX: 18in-gauge Locomotive Histories
Appendix X: Standard-gauge Locomotive Histories
Appendix XI: 2ft-Gauge Locomotive Histories

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