Books by J.B. Hollingsworth

Brain Hollingsworth, M.A., M.I.C.E., after qualifying in engineering at Cambridge University he joined Great Western Railway in 1946 as a civil engineer. He later joined British Rail and got heavily involved with BR's TOPS wagon and train control system. In 1974 he left to take up writing and has published 11 major books on various aspects of railways and locomotives including Salamander's The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Steam Passenger Locomotives. He is also director of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway and civil engineering adviser to the Festiniog Railway. Arthur F. Cook, M.A., M.I. Mech. E. also read engineering at Cambridge University. He ten went on to teach at Southampton University, was Principal of the Macclesfield Technical College and was Administrator at the County Education Headquarters at Chester. Since retiring from British Rail after many years of service, he has written many technical articles on trains and railway systems, particularly modern rail power and contributed to Salamander's The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the World's Steam Passenger Locomotives.