For those who wish to learn more about the places featured on this website, I recommend the following publications and websites:
Conservation Area Apprisals in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, Settle to Carlisle Railway, published 2010 by yorkshiredales.org.uk
This publication is avilable online. Provides considerable detail concerning the construction of the line through the area now within the National Park, the industrial archeology that remains and where it is to be seen. Essential reading.
Rails in The Fells - David Jenkinson - Peco Publications - 1973
An account of the origins, characteristics and contribution of the railway to the landscape; together with an attempt to evaluate its past and present influence on the area through which it passes. Contains details of traffic patterns and rolling stock.
Stations and Structures of the Settle and Carlisle Railway - V R Anderson & G K Fox - Oxford Publishing Company - 1986
Vast amount of detail concerning the route, gradients, track layouts, structures and signalling including the reproduction of original construction drawings.
North of Leeds - Peter E Baughan - Roundhouse Books - 1966
A detailed account of the Settle to Carlise and its branches from the formation in 1844 of the Midland Railway as an amalgamation of three provincial railways based in Derby, to the ‘Grouping’ in 1923.
How They Built the Settle to Carlisle Railway - W R Mitchell - 1989
A collection of contemporary notes and comments taken from various local newspapers
Steam, Steel and Stars - Tim Hensley - 1987 - Harry N Abrams Inc
A collection of 90 photographs in duotone by O Winston Link with accompanying text by the author.
American Automobile Collections and Museums - Michael Morlan - Bon a Tirer - 1992
When I acquired this book from the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michgan it was the definitive guide to 139 collections througought the US, containing a profile of each museum and an inventory of each collection. Most are still in existence, though I know of one that has closed, the S Ray Miller Foundation in Elkhart, Indiana whose collection was disposed of at auction about 20 years ago, including a 1930 Duesenberg Model J that sold for close to $1 million.
www.fondazionefs.it
Explains the purpose and history and work of Fondazione FS Italiane, and has a full list of all possible itineraries on ‘historic’ trains, with a booking facility.