Martyn Bane's Steam and Travel Pages

Updated 25 May 2008

Welcome to my website. It covers several aspects of my passion for steam locomotives. The various sections can be accessed via the links to the left.

Site Updates: Re-written Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway pages added. All pages updated
Re-published photos from October 2004 of 'Tren a las Nubes' at a larger size

Adhesion Aids Page Added
Gas Producer Combustion System article by Richard Campbell Added
Poissonnier Chassis Alignment document Added
New Page on Welshpool No.19 Added


Minor revisions to LVM801 Page

Added details of LVM802 and revised details of LVM803
Doña Teresa Christina Modifications page added

Mount Washington No.9 - The World's First Biodiesel Fired Locomotive

Mount Washington No.9

Added 1 photo of W&LLR No.2 to Modern Steam Photos page
9 Welshpool and 3 Mount Washington Photos added to Modern Steam Photos page

Additions made to the Modern Steam Glossary page
Updated World's Smallest Lempor page
Locomotives with Porta Exhausts page updated
North American Triple Expansion 2-10-0 page updated
A Short Paper Regarding Tube Roughening, by Shaun McMahon, added
22 Peckett Drawings Added
Added SAR Handbook on the Steam Locomotive
Added Rhodesia Railways Engineman's Handbook
Updated page on Paraguayan No.286
Argentina Rescue Fund Update

Modern Steam
6024 King Edward I
Tanfield Railway
Peckett & Sons Ltd
Photo Galleries

The Argentina Rescue Fund


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NOTE: All uncredited photographs, video and audio clips are © Martyn Bane. Photographs and text can only be reproduced with permission of the webmaster.

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