John Urpeth Rastrick - References

Books

• Burton, Anthony, The Railway Builders, John Murray, 1992. ISBN 0-7195-5084-X
• Collins, Paul, Editor, Stourbridge and its Historic Locomotives, published by Dudley Leisure Services, 1989. ISBN 0-900911-25-5
• Day, Lance and McNeil, Editors, Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, Routledge, 1996 (1998 paperback). ISBN 0-415-06042-7 (hbk), ISBN 0-415-19399-0 (pbk)
• Dictionary of National Biography (UK)
• Ferneyhough Frank, The History of Railways in Britain, Osprey, 1975.
• Lampe, David, The Tunnel - The Story of the World's First Tunnel under a Navigable River dug beneath the Thames, 1824-42, Harrap, 1963.
• First chapter is an account of the Thames Driftway, 1802-8 (no mention of Rastrick.)
• Mackay, Thomas, The Life of Sir John Fowler, Engineer, John Murray, 1900.
• Morgan, Bryan, Civil Engineering: Railways, Longman, 1971.
• Morris, Richard, The Archaeology of Railways, Tempus, 1999.  ISBN 0-7524-1430-5
• Mentions Rastrick four times - always as Raistrick, twice as James Raistrick, but all four pages are indexed as John Urpeth Raistrick.
• Post Office London Directory, 1841
• Raistrick, Arthur, Dynasty of Ironfounders - The Darbys and Coalbrookdale, David & Charles, 1970 (first published 1953)
• Ransom, P. J. G, The Archaeology of the Transport Revolution, 1750-1850, World's Work Ltd., 1984. ISBN 0-437-14335-X
• Rastrick, John U., Liverpool and Manchester Railway - Report to the Directors on the Comparative Merits of Loco-motive and Fixed Engines as a Moving Power, 2nd Edition, corrected, R. Wrightson, 1829
• Rolt, L. T. C., George and Robert Stephenson, The Railway Revolution, Penguin Books (Pelican), 1978.
• Simmonds, Jack and Biddle, Gordon, Editors, The Oxford Companion To British Railway History, Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 0-19-211697-5
• Skeat, W. O., George Stephenson - The Engineer and His Letters, The Institution of Mechancical Engineers, 1973.
• Stretton, Clement E., C.E., The Locomotive Engine and Its Development, A popular treatise on the gradual improvements made in railway engines between the years 1803 and 1892,Crosby, Lockwood and Son, 1892.
• Trevithick, Francis, C.E., Life of Richard Trevithick with an Account of his Inventions, E & FN Spon, 1872.
• Turner, John Howard, The London Brighton and South Coast Railway, I Origins and Formation, Batsford, 1977.
• Warren, J. G. H., A Century of Locomotive Building by Robert Stephenson & Co., David & Charles reprint 1970.
• Waters, Ivor, Chepstow Road Bridges, The Moss Rose Press, 1980. ISBN 0-906134-09-9
• Webster, Norman W., Joseph Locke: Railway Revolutionary, Allen & Unwin, 1970
• Webster, Norman W., Britain's First Trunk Line - The Grand Junction Railway, Adams and Dart, 1972.

Papers/Articles

• Bailey, Michael R., George Stephenson - Locomotive Advocate: The Background to the Rainhill Trials, from George Stephenson: A Commemorative Symposium for the 200th Anniversary of his Birth, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, Vol 52, 1980-81, pp171-179
• Crompton, John, Rewriting the Record - John Rastrick's Locomotives, pp51-8, in Perceptions of Great Engineers II, edited by Adrian Jarvis and Kenneth Smith, National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside, 1998. ISBN 0-906367-94-8
• Dickinson, H.W. and Lee, Arthur, The Rastricks - Civil Engineers, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, iv, 1923-4, pp48-63. plates VII-XI
• Engineer, The, The late Mr Rastrick, November 14, 1856
• Hall, John W., Joshua Field's Diary of a Tour in 1821 through the Midlands, With Introduction and Notes, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vi, 1925-26 pp1-41 - p28 Foster & Rastrick
• Lee, Mr. A., Rastricks of Rastrick, The "Echo", Brighouse, Friday Feb 7th, 1919
• Mr. A. Lee's great great grandfather was John Rastrick (1738-1826)
• Locomotive Magazine, The Locomotives of the London Brighton and South Coast Railway, 1839-1903, 1903.
• Loree, L. F., The Four Locomotives imported into America in 1829 by the Delaware & Hudson Company, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, iv, 1923-4, pp64-72, plates XII, XIII
• Mechanics Magazine, Opening of Shutt End Railway, written by J. T. of Dudley, Saturday June 20th, 1829, No. 306, pp300-302,
• Minutes of Evidence taken before the Commissioners appointed to enquire into the gauge of railways, London, 1846.
• Minutes taken before the Select Committee on Railways, Second Report from the Select Committee on Railways to enquire into the state of communication by railways, ordered to be printed 9 August, 1839.
• Mutton, Norman, Eardington Forges and Canal Tunnel, Industrial Archaeology - The Journal of the History of Industry and Technology, Editor John Butt, Vol 7, 1970. David & Charles. 1971 pp53-9
• Mutton, Norman, Stourbridge Foundry, Notes and News, Industrial Archaeology - The Journal of the History of Industry and Technology, Editor John Butt, Vol 7, 1970. David & Charles. 1971 pp316-17
• Perkins, T. R., The Wolverhampton and Kingswinford Railway, The Railway Magazine, Vol LVIII, June 1926, pp441-6
• Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Memoir of John Urpeth Rastrick, Vol 16, 1856-1857, pp 128-33
• Titley, Arthur, Trevithick and Rastrick and the Single Acting Expansive Engine, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, vii, 1926-27, pp42-59, plates VI, VII, VIII
• Tonkin, S. Morley, Trevithick, Rastrick and the Hazledine Foundry, Bridgnorth, Transactions of the Newcomen Society, xxvi, 1947-49, pp171-183.
• Walker, Herbert T., The Evolution of the American Locomotive, Scientific American Supplement, April 24, 1897.

Original Documents

• Census returns (UK) - 1841, 1851
• Chepstow Road Bridge - documents in Gwent County Record Office
• Draft Contract for taking down and rebuilding Chepstow Bridge, 4 June, 1814
• Quarter Sessions Minute Book
• 7 Oct 1807 - 11 July 1814
• 16 Aug 1814 - 11 Jan 1819
• International Genealogical Index (IGI) - compiled by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
• Description of the IGI (The Greater Manchester County Record Office)
• University of London Library - Research Collections Page

General

• Chamber's Biographical Dictionary, 1926.
• Derry, T. K. and Williams, Trevor I., A Short History of Technology, Oxford University Press, 1960, (1982 impression).  ISBN 0-19-881231-0
• Hyde, Ralph (Introductory notes), The A to Z of Victorian London, Harry Margary, in association with Guildhall Library, London, 1987. ISBN 0-903541-39-4
• Trevelyan, G. M., A Shortened History of England, Pelican, 1942, (1981 reprint). ISBN 0-14-020443-1
• chronology

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Links

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