Contents.

Preface to Second Edition.

Preface to Third Edition.

I. INTRODUCTION.

II. OBJECTS OF THE 15 IN. GAUGE.

III. CONSTRUCTION OF THE DUFFIELD BANK LINE.

IV. DETAILS OF THE EATON HALL LINE.

V. LOCOMOTIVES.

VI. WAGONS AND CARS

VII. THE DUFFIELD BANK WORKSHOPS.

VIII. SCIENTIFIC CONSIDERATIONS.

IX. REMARKS ON NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS.

X. APPENDIX A

PLATES. Tennis Ground station, Duffield Bank Railway.

FOOTNOTES

Transcribed from the third edition by Peter Barnes.

Minimum Gauge Railways:

THEIR APPLICATION, CONSTRUCTION,

AND WORKING.

Being an account of the origin and evolution of the 15 in. gauge line

at Duffield Bank, near Derby; also of the installation of a

similar line at Eaton Hall, near Chester; together with

various notes on the uses of such Railways, and

on the results of some experimental

investigations relating thereto.

BY

Sir ARTHUR PERCIVAL HEYWOOD, Bart., M.A.

THIRD EDITION.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.