SLS Resources - links to the free educational resources on this site (Last updated 4 March 2022)

About the Stephensons & Early Railways

The Stephenson Fact File

Early steam locomotives (Web page) and links to the Chapter One extract from the 1894 book by Bowen Cooke. - Book extract including embedded graphics

Imagery

Index of photographs - free to view

SLS Railtour info' including downloadable headboard sheets for modellers.

Tour headboards including printable scaled reproductions for modellers in 4mm | 7mm (1:43) | 1:24 | 1:12

PDFs

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The Jubilee Memorial of the Railway System - A Masterpiece of Propoganda (PDF) By Les Turnbull B.A. (Hons), M.Ed., MNEIMME A Critical Analysis of the Thoughts upon the History of the Stockton and Darlington Railway by J.S. Jeans - 2024 is the year when the mining engineers of the Great Northern Coalfield strike back to reclaim their railway heritage

Orion fact file (PDF) By R. A. S. Hennessey & Mike G. Fell The story of the 9½ inch gauge scale model of a Webb compound, built a century ago, the prototypes on which it was modelled, its maker and recent restoration with the help of the Heritage Lottery Fund.  Latest second edition fact sheet now on line with additional information and photographs. Release version = 2.4 10th October 2012

French light rail - 2 (Updated version loaded January 2021) This is a presentation by Graham Jellett, which he gave to a meeting of SLS Newcastle Centre on 29th November 2019, about the twenty three new steel wheel tramways which have come into service in France from 2000 to date. Effectively it is an update of a similar talk he gave to SLS Manchester Centre on 20th January 2018. Secondly, a comprehensive web page of nearly 1,000 of his photographs and some tables of data he has drawn up, of all 46 modern urban public light rail systems currently operating in France, may be viewed and downloaded free from www.flickr.com/photos/freinsevran/albums

French light rail - 1 (First listing as at 2018) -This is a presentation by Graham Jellett covered the twenty one new steel wheel tramways which had come into service in France between 2000 and 2018. Secondly, the website etc.., is as for (2) above. [Section text updated January 2021]

E- books in EPUB format

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