Potential Reference Sources for Nigerian Railways

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Potential Reference Sources for Nigerian Railways

This document was prepared to assist the Legacy 95 project find books and other reference sources on Nigerian Railways. BORHT also has some Malawi Railways material in our archives.

Firstly, a word of warning, there has been a spate in recent years of people finding books that are out of copyright, OCR’ing them and offering the copies for sale. Admittedly they do warn that the copies may not be perfect. The Trust brought a copy of a French book on African Colonial Railways that is extremely rare but found that no more than 25% of the pages were legible.

Nigeria is lucky to have a reasonably up to date history of the railway written by an expert. Many African countries have no written railway history, or it is at least 50 years old.

On this page, the term Nigerian Railways as an overarching cover for the current Nigerian Railways Corporation, and its various constituents, which include amongst others The Lagos Government Railway and The Nigerian Eastern Railway.

Most of the titles below are available in the British Library and can be found by searching their catalogue.

Journal articles listed should be available through JSTOR. The Historical Society of Nigeria only lists those articles cited on its website, and there may be more.

Nigerian Railway Specific Books

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Abelson, P.	Cost benefit analysis of proposed major rail development in Lagos, Nigeria	1995	Transport Reviews, 15, 265-289.
Ademiluyi, I.A. Dina, O.A.	The Millennium Development Goals and the Sustainable Future for Nigeria’s Urban Environment: A Railway Strategy	2011	Journal of Human Ecology, 03/2011, Vol.33(3), pp.203-209
Akintuyi, Edmund A.	Internal Rail Flows of Selected Local Food Stuffs and Regional Specialisation: the Case of Nigeria, 1964	1970	MA, University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Anon	Construction Regulations, Nigerian Eastern Railway	1913	The Railway Printer	Ebute Metta
Anon	Nigeria inaugurates 185.5km Abuja - Kaduna railway	2016	International Railway Journal, Sep 2016, Vol.56(9), p.12	London
Anon	Nigeria. Correspondence relating to railway construction in Nigeria.	1906	20th Century House of Commons Sessional Papers, 1906, Vol.LXXVIII, p.21
Anon	Northern Nigeria by the Lagos Railway Express Route July 1912	1912	Lagos Government Railway		Reprinted in BORJ No. 18 1999
Anon	Proposed railways in Nigeria, IDWO 1554	2005	War Office Intelligence Division	London
Anon	Railway construction in Nigeria	1909	Scottish Geographical Magazine, 01 July 1909, Vol.25(7), p.353-355	Royal Scottish Geographical Society, Edinburgh	This would appear to have been written by the editorial team, no names are credited
Anon	Railway Developments in Nigeria	1914	Moslem World, Jan 1, 1914, Vol.4, p.419
Anon	Report of the Langalanga Train Accident Tribunal of Inquiry	1971	Federal Ministry of Information, Print Division	Lagos
Anon	Report of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Tribunal of Inquiry appointment under the tribunal of Inquiry Decree 1966 to Inquiry into the Affairs of the Nigerian Railway Corporation.	1967	Federal Ministry of Information Printing Division Lagos	Lagos
Anon	ROADS AND RAILWAYS: Nigeria	2013	Africa research bulletin. Economic, financial, and technical series		The British Library seems to have a number of these all with the same title but different dates
Anon	Statement by the Government of the Federation of Nigeria on the report of Elias Commission of Inquiry into the Administration, Economics and Industrial Relations of the Nigerian Railway Corporation	1960	Lagos : Federal Government Printer	Lagos
Anon	Statement of the policy proposed by the government for the establishment of a Nigerian Railway Corporation	1954	Nigerian Government	Lagos
Anon	The Bornu Railway extension : Kuru to Bauchi	1961?	Nigerian Railway Corporation	Lagos
Ayoola, Tokunbo	Political economy of rail transportation in Nigeria, 1945-1985	2003	ProQuest Dissertations Publishing PQDT - Global
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	Colonial inheritance, postcolonial neglect, and the management of Nigerian Railway by Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES)	2008	Lagos Notes and Records, 14, 60-85
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	Epitaph of failure? The management of post-colonial rail transport in Nigeria, 1960-2012	2014	OFO: Journal of Transatlantic Studies (USA), 4 (2), 43-65.
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	Establishment of the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1949-1955	2016	Journal of Retracing Africa, 3 (1), 21-42.
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	Origins and the management of the Nigerian Federal Urban Mass Transit Programme, 1988-1992	2006	Journal of History and Diplomatic Studies, 3, 71-.
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	Political Economy of Rail Transportation in Nigeria, 1945-1985	2003	PhD, University of Manchester.
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	Popular resistance literature and the Nigerian Railway Corporation, 1955-1960	2009	In Popular Cultures in Africa, edited by Toyin Falola and Tony Agwuele, pp. 299-320. Rochester: Rochester University Press
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi .	The impact of the Nigerian Civil War on the Nigerian railway	2013	In Warfare, Ethnicity, and National Identity in Nigeria, edited by Toyin Falola, Roy Doron and Okpeh Ochayi Okpeh, pp. 161-189. Africa World Press	Trenton, NJ:
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	The political economy of railway construction in Nigeria: the Bornu Railway extension	2006	Lagos Historical Review, 6, 148-170
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	The price of 'modernity'? Western railroad technology and the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nigeria	2012	In Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Post Colonial in Africa, edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell, pp. 148-169. Routledge	Abingdon
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	The Second World War and Africa’s socioeconomic infrastructures: a case study of the Nigerian railroad system	2014	In Contemporary Africa: Challenges and Opportunities, edited by Toyin Falola and E Mbah, pp. 63-87. Palgrave Macmillan	Basingstoke
Ayoola, Tokunbo Aderemi	The World Bank, British Imperial Treasury, and financing of the Bornu Railway extension, Nigeria	2013	In Beyond the Boundaries: Toyin Falola and the Art of Genre Bending, edited by Nana Akua Amponsah, pp. 427-452. Africa World Press	Trenton, NJ
Barbour, K. M.	A survey of Bornu railway extension in Nigeria: a geographical audit	1967	Nigerian Geographical Journal, 10, 11-28
Bigon, L	Tracking ethno-cultural differences: the Lagos steam tramway, 1902-1933	2007	Journal of Historical Geography, 33, 596-618
Bland, EM, General Manager	A Short Description of The Nigerian Railway	1928	Lagos
Carland, John M.	A Permanent Official's Triumph, George Fiddes and the creation of the Bauchi Light Railways, 1910-11	2015	Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria Vol. 24, pp56-72	Ibadan
Churchill, W.S.	Speeches by the Right Hon. Winston S. Churchill, M.P., on the Northern Nigeria Railway.	1907	Henry Blacklock & Co. Ltd	Manchester
Clarke, John Henrik	The morning train to Ibadan	1962	Journal of Negro Education, 31, 527-530.
Collingwood, C., A.M.I.C.E.	The Kogin Kogom Kloof	1924	The Geographical Journal Vol. 64, No. 2 (Aug., 1924), pp. 141-145 The Royal Geographical Society	London
Colonial Office	PAPERS RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTIOIN OF RAILWAYS IN SIERRA LEONE, LAGOS, AND THE GOLD COAST	1904	Houses of Parliament	London
Commission of Inquiry into the Administration, Economics and Industrial Relations of the Nigerian Railway Corporation	Report of Elias Commission of Inquiry into the Administration, Economics and Industrial Relations of the Nigerian Railway Corporation	1960		Lagos
Crawford, K.L.	Bauchi-Bornu Railway Extension, a review of revenue potential 1960	1960	Nigerian Railway Corporation	Lagos
Dangana, A. (1969)	Railroads and Economic Development in Nigeria: a Case Study of the Bornu Extension	1969	MSc, University of Ghana, Legon
De-Valera, NYM Botchway, Kwame Osei Kwarteng. Eds	Africa and the First World War : remembrance, memories and representations after 100 years	2018	Cambridge Scholars Publishing	Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Dina, Adeolu O Akanni, Cornelius O Badejo, Bamidele A	Evaluation of Railway Level Crossing Attributes on Accident Causation in Lagos, Nigeria	2017	Indonesian Journal of Geography, 01 January 2017, Vol.48(2), pp.108-117
Emerson, Ralf, Col, Sir, C.I.E., O.B.E., M.I.C.E.	A PROJECT FOR EXTENDING THE NIGERIAN RAILWAY INTO BORNU PROVINCE	1959	ICE Proceedings, 1959, Vol.12(3), pp.353-366	London	Emerson was Chairman of NRC at the time of the paper
Emerson, Ralf, Col, Sir, C.I.E., O.B.E., M.I.C.E.	DISCUSSION. A PROJECT FOR EXTENDING THE NIGERIAN RAILWAY INTO BORNU PROVINCE	1959	ICE Proceedings, 1959, Vol.14(4), pp.480-497	London	Discussion on Sir R Emerson’s paper
Gahan, Edward John Beresford	Notes on re-laying and maintenance, Nigerian Railway	1952	Conference on Civil Engineering Problems in the Colonies, London.
Graham, Margaret Blackwood Wanty	The Nigerian railway : Technological Innovation and Social Change in a Colonial Society, 1895-1935	1976	PhD, Harvard University, Cambridg, MA.
Hammond, Frederick Dawson	Report on the Railway System of Nigeria	1924	London: Crown Agents for the Colonies
House of Commons	Nigeria. Correspondence relating to railway construction in Nigeria			London	Reprint?
House of Commons	Nigeria. Further correspondence relating to railway construction in Nigeria	2007		London	Reprint?
Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee	Coal and British Colonialism in Nigeria	2014	RCC Perspectives , No. 5, Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America
Ijewere, G.O.	Rail and road traffic in Nigeria	1958	BLitt, Oxford University
Ijewere, G.O.	Rail-road problems in Nigeria	1959	Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies, 1, 17-26
Iwayemi, A. (1987).	Rail transportation in Nigeria: issues and public policy	1987	Nigerian Journal of Economic and Social Studies, 29, 77-93
Jaekel, Francis	The History of the Nigerian Railway, 3 Vols.	1997	Spectrum Books	Ibadan	Vol 1: Opening the Nation to Sea, Air and Road Vol 2: Network and Infrastructures. Vol 3: Organisation, Structure and Related Matters.
Kalu, Ogbu U.	Primitive methodists on the railroad junctions of Igboland, 1910-1931	1986	Journal of Religion in Africa, 16 (1), 44-66
Lindsay, L. A.	Shunting Between Manly Ideals: Nigerian Railway Men, 1935-65	1995	ANNUAL MEETING- AFRICAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION.; African Studies Association; Orlando; FL
Lindsay, Lisa A.	Money, marriage and masculinity on the colonial Nigerian railway: a case study of imperialism, railways and gender in Africa	2004	In Eisenbahn/Kulture (Railway/Culture), edited by Günter Dinhobl, pp. 231- 244. Mitteilungen des Österreichischen Staatsarchivs.	Vienna
Lindsay, Lisa A.	Money, marriage, and masculinity on the colonial Nigerian railway	2003	In Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa, edited by Lisa A. Lindsay and Stefan F Miescher, pp. 138-155. Heinemann	Portsmouth, NH
Lindsay, L. A.	'No Need... to Think of Home'? Masculinity and Domestic Life on the Nigerian Railway, c. 1940-61	1998	Journal of African history 39 (3), 439-466	Cambridge University Press
Lindsay, Lisa A. .	Putting the Family on Track: Gender and Domestic Life on the Colonial Nigerian Railway	1996	PhD, University of Michigan
Lindsay, Lisa A.	Shunting between masculine ideals: Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial era	2005	Readings in Gender in Africa, edited by Andrea Cornwall, pp. 141-147. Oxford / Bloomington: James Currey / Indiana University Press
Lindsay, Lisa A.	Working with Gender: Wage Labor and Social Change in Southwestern Nigeria	2003	Heinemann	Portsmouth, NH
Macaulay, Herbert	Governor Egerton and the Lagos Railways	1906
Marshall, J.R.N	Land acquisition for the Bornu Railway extension in Northern Nigeria	1963	Journal of Local Administration Overseas, 2, 222-232
Mason, Michael	Working on the railway: forced labour in northern Nigeria, 1907-1912	1978	In African Labour History, edited by Peter W. Gutkind, Robin Cohen and J. Copans, pp. 56-79. Sage	London
Mikailu, A.S.	A study of economic efficiency, accounting and decision making in railways with special reference to the Nigerian Railway Corporation	1986	University of Reading	Reading	PhD Thesis
Miller, N.S.	Lagos Steam Tramway, 1902-1933	1958	W.J. Fowler	London
Nash, T. A. M.	CATERPILLARS CROSSING A RAILWAY TRACK IN NIGERIA	1938	Proceedings of the Royal Entomological Society of London. Series A, General Entomology, October 1938, Vol.13(7-9), pp.99-99	London
NRC	A Railway Guide to Nigerian Recipes	1962	NRC	Ebute Metta
NRC	Nigerian Railway Corporation. A Review	1962	NRC	Ebute Metta
NRC Tribunal of Enquiry	Report of the Nigerian Railway Corporation Tribunal appointed under the Tribunal of inquiry decree, 1966, to inquire into the affairs of the Nigerian Railway Corporation	1967	NRC	Lagos	The British Library has several volumes of this and the Federal Military Govt. comments
Olanrewaju, S.A.	Some determinants of the operation cost of the Nigerian railways	1976	Quarterly Journal of Administration, 11, 309-323
Oldfield, Genevieve Ambrose	The Native Railway Worker in Nigeria	1936	Africa, The Journal of the International African Institute, 07/1936, Vol.9(3), pp.379-402
Omiunu, F.G.I.	Political policies and the development of rail transportation in Nigeria	1983	AMAN, 3 (1), 71-80
Omiunu, F.G.I.	The role of transportation in nation building: the case of the Nigeria railways	1981	The Nigeria Magazine, 137, 3-16
Omosini, Olufemi	Background to railway policy in Nigeria, 1877-1901	1980	In Topics on Nigerian Economic and Social History, edited by I.A. Akinjogbin and S.O. Osaba. University of Ife-Ife Press
Onakomainya, S.O.	Some spatial aspects of rail movements and foreign trade within Nigeria, 1964	1968	University of Wisconsin
Oshin, O.; Agiri, B	Population Movements, Urbanisation and National Integration: The Historical Role of Railways in the United States & Nigeria	1992	Nigerian journal of American studies, Obafemi Awolowo University Press
Oshin, O.; Falola, T.; Salm, S. J.	Railways and Urbanization	2004	African urban spaces: history and culture; Nigerian cities; Austin, TX, 2003; Mar, 0, 101-126 -- Trenton, N.J.; Africa World, 2004
Oshin, Olasiji	Colonial railway policy in Northern Nigeria, 1898-1914	1989	Odu: a Journal of West African Studies, 35, 97-113
Oshin, Olasiji	DEVELOPING INFRASTRUCTURE OF EXPLOITATION: THE EXAMPLE OF COLONIAL TRANSPORT ON THE BAUCHI TIN FIELDS, 1902 – 1914	1988	Transafrican Journal of History Vol. 17 (1988), pp. 123-138 Gideon Were Publications	Nairobi, Kenya
Oshin, Olasiji	EXTENDING LAGOS COMMERCIAL FRONTIERS: THE BACKGROUND TO THE NIGERIAN RAILWAY REVISITED, 1880 – 1896	1989	Transafrican Journal of History Vol. 18 (1989), pp. 101-116 Gideon Were Publications	Nairobi, Kenya
Oshin, Olasiji	Nigerian railways under stress, 1912-45: a study in colonial transport planning and management	1990	Odu: a Journal of West African Studies, 37 (January/July), 49-71
Oshin, Olasiji	Physical and administrative coercion under the British: the case of road and railway construction in South Nigeria, 1904-1918	1989	Africana Marburgensia, 22 (2), 3-23
Oshin, Olasiji	Railways and urbanization	2004	In Nigerian Cities, edited by Toyin Falola and Steven J. Salm, pp. 101-126. Trenton, NJ: African World Press
Oshin, Olasiji	Road transport and the declining fortunes of the Nigerian railway, 1901-1950	1991	Journal of Transport History, 12 (1), 11-36
Oshin, Olasiji	The Development of Railway Transportation in Nigeria, 1880-1945	1987	PhD, University of Ife.
Osunbote, Oladele	Railway in Nigeria : an insider's views	1997	Pramark	Ibadan
Oyekanmi, Abioye	Privatisation of the Nigerian Railway Corporation : an evaluation of critical choices	2016	Cardiff Metropolitan University	Cardiff	PhD thesis
Oyemakinde, J.O.	History of Indigenous Labour on the Nigerian Railway 1895-1945	1970	University of Ibadan	Ibadan	PhD Thesis
OYEMAKINDE, Wale	RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATION IN NIGERIA, 1895-1911: LABOUR PROBLEMS AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC IMPACT	1974	Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria Vol. 7, No. 2 (June 1974), pp. 303-324 Published by: Historical Society of Nigeria	Ibadan
OYEMAKINDE, Wale	THE IMPACT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION ON THE NIGERIAN RAILWAY AND ITS WORKERS	1977	Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria Vol. 8, No. 4 (June 1977), pp. 143-160 Published by: Historical Society of Nigeria	Ibadan
Secretary of State for the Colonies	what the extension of the railway from Bukeru through Bornu... survey is estimated to take three years	1957-58	House of Commons Hansard, 1957-58. Regnal year: Elizabeth II year 6. Written answers, Fifth Series, Volume 579, Columns: 21-40
Sells, M.P.	The Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Workshops of the Nigerian Railway	1936	Railway Gazette	London	Sells was CME of Gold Coast Railways, Nigeria Railways and Rhodesia Railways, the original articles were published as a series in RG in 1935 and reprinted as a separate booklet in 1936.
Smith-Herbert, W.	Nigeria and its railways	1923	Conquest, 209-213; 282- 284
Stocker, John	Nigerian Railway Jubilee, 1901-1951: An Illustrated and Descriptive History of the Nigerian Railway	1951	The Government Printer	Lagos
Swindell, Ken	The struggle for transport labour in northern Nigeria, 1900-1912: a conflict of interests	1992	African Economic History, 20, 137-159
Tamuno, T.N.	Genesis of the Nigerian railway - I	1964	Nigeria Magazine, 279-292; 84
Ubogu, Andrew Egba	The potentials of rail-road integration for port-hinterland freight transport in Nigeria	2011	International Journal for Traffic and Transport Engineering, 1 (2), 89-107
Urion, GO, Dist. running Superintendent N R Railway	Nigerian Railway, Lessons on the Locomotive	1941	Ebute Metta
Uzoechi, Innocent F.A.	The Social and Political Impact of the Eastern Nigerian Railway on UDI Division, 1913-1945	1985	PhD, History, Kent State University
Van Der Laan, H. Laurens.	Modern Inland Transport and the European Trading Firms in Colonial West Africa	1981	Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 21, n°84, 1981. pp. 547-575;
Williams, A. O.	Revitalisation of the Nigerian Railway Corporation	1994	Rail international. English edition. VOL 25; NUMBER 6//7
Wilson, R. C.	The Geology of the Western Railway Section 1 Iddo to Okuku	1922	Geological Survey of Nigeria,	Lagos
Yusuf, Shehu Tijjani	Domesticating the imperial railroads: perception and appropriation of the railroads in early colonial Northern Nigeria	2016	In Festschrift in Honour of Robert Ross, edited by Iva Pesa and Jan-Bart Gewald, pp. 188-202. Leiden: Brill.
Yusuf, Shehu Tijjani	The development of Baro-Kano railway as an aspect of technology transfer in colonial Northern Nigeria	2014	Kano Journal of History, 1 (1), 142-166.
Yusuf, Shehu Tijjani	The socio-economic impact of the railway in Northern Nigeria: a study in transformation of the rural communities along the rail line between Kano and Zaria, 1908–1970s	2015	Institute for History, Faculty of the Humanities, Leiden University	Leiden
	Nigerian Railway, Instructions for periodical examinations of locomotives at running sheds	1933	Nigerian Railway

Books or Journal Articles Written by Either Serving or Former Members of Nigerian Railways, but not Necessarily on Nigerian Railways

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Bedford-Glasier, Frank, General Manager	Southern Nigeria. Report by the General Manager, Lagos Railway, on the British South African Railways	1909	Government Printer, Lagos	Lagos	Covers Central South African, Natal Government, Cape Government and Rhodesia Railways, title of Report only says General Manager.
BULKELEY, George Vicary Owen	Mechanical Appliances for Handling Railway Traffic	1921	Railway Gazette	London	Manager NR in 1933
BULKELEY, George Vicary Owen	Railway and Seaport Freight Movement. With examples of British and American practice, etc.	1930	C. Lockwood & Son,	London
BULKELEY, George Vicary Owen	Some considerations regarding locos. for colonial railways	1947	Locomotive Mag., 1947, 53, 20.	London
BULKELEY, George Vicary Owen	The 4-8-0 locomotive on Colonial railways	1947	Locomotive Mag., 1947, 53, 187.	London
BULKELEY, George Vicary Owen	Transport Administration in Tropical Dependencies	1946	Railway Gazette	London
Sells, Martin Perronet	Ambitious rebuilding of locomotives	1935	Locomotive Mag., 1935, 41, 140-3	London	Was CME NR and GM in 1937
Sells, Martin Perronet	How the Locomotive Works and Why	1936	Locomotive Mag., 1935, 41, 140-3	Locomotive Publishing Co	Was CME NR and GM in 1937
Sells, Martin Perronet	Rhodesia Railways	1951 approx.	Locomotive Mag	London
Sells, Martin Perronet	Sierra Leone Government Railway	1952	Locomotive Mag., 1952, 58, 145..	London
Sells, Martin Perronet	The steam locomotive of today its construction operation and upkeep	1951	Locomotive Publishing Co	London
Sells, Martin Perronet	4-6-2+2-6-4 Beyer Garratt	1936	Locomotive Mag., 1936, 42, 32.	London

Books or Journal Articles on African Railways that will Mention Nigeria

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Anon	Handbook of Railways in Africa. Volume I.	1919	Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty	London	Only one Vol. published. Is there the manuscript for other vols in TNA?
Anon	Papers relating to the Construction of Railways in Sierra Leone, Lagos and the Gold Coast, Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London, Houses of Parliament	1904	House of Parliament	London
Church, R. J. (1943).	Railways of West Africa; A Geographical and Historical Analysis	1943	University of London	London	MSc theses
Darwin, Major	Railways in Africa	1896	Geographical Journal 8: p488-501.	London
Day, J.R	Railways of Northern Africa	1964	Arthur Barker	London
de la Motte, Edward Septimus George	Railway Location and Construction in West Africa 1950-1955	1956	Conference on Civil Engineering Problems in the Colonies, Institute of Civil Engineers.	London
de Renty, Ernest Amédée.	Les Chemins de Fer Coloniaux en Afrique	1903	De Rudeval	Paris	Pt 1 is German, Italian and Portuguese Colonies, Pt 2 the British Colonies and Pt 3 the French Colonies
Due, John F,	The Problems of Rail Transport in Tropical Africa	1979	The Journal of Developing Areas Vol. 13, No. 4 (Jul., 1979), pp. 375-393 Published by: College of Business, Tennessee State University	Nashville
Dumett, R.E.	Joseph Chamberlain, Imperial Finance and Railway Policy in British West Africa in the Late Nineteenth century	1975	The English Historical Review Vol. 90, No. 355 (Apr., 1975), pp. 287-321 Published by: Oxford University Press	Oxford
Durrant, A.E., A.A. Jorgensen, C.P. Lewis.	Steam in Africa	1981	Hamlyn	London
Kirk-Greene, A.M.H.,	Canada in Africa: Sir Percy Girouard, Neglected Colonial Governor	1984	African Affairs Vol. 83, No. 331 (Apr., 1984), pp. 207-239 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society	Oxford
Mance, Henry Osborne, Capt. D.S.O.	The Railway Systems of West Africa	1913	Journal of the Royal United Services Institute 57: 167-194.	London
McPhee, A.	The Economic Revolution in British West Africa	1971	Frank Cass & Co Ltd.	London
Metcalfe, Charles	Railway Development of Africa, Present and Future	1916	The Geographical Journal Vol. 47, No. 1 (Jan., 1916), pp. 3-17 Published by: The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)	London
Mizuoka, Fujio and Kohei Shimono	CAPITALIST REGULATION AND RESCALING OF PUBLIC TRANSPORT GOVERNANCE: A CASE OF NIGERIA	2013	Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics Vol. 54, No. 2 (December 2013), pp. 251-277 Published by: Hitotsubashi University	Tokyo
Ọmọsini, Olufẹmi	RAILWAY PROJECTS AND BRITISH ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DEVELOPMENT OF WEST AFRICA, 1872-1903	1971	Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria Vol. 5, No. 4 (June 1971), pp. 491-507	Ibadan
Ormsby-Gore	Report on a visit to West Africa	1926	Colonial Office	London	I think Ormsby-Gore was Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time.
Orr, C.W.J.	Light Railways for Tropical Africa	1911	Journal of the Royal African Society Vol. 10, No. 38 (Jan., 1911), pp. 179-190 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society	Oxford
Palterman Jonathan	African Railway Album, Vol 1	2006
Shelford, Frederic, , B.Sc. (Lond), M.Inst.C.E, F.R.G.S	Ten Years' Progress in West Africa	1907	Journal of the Royal African Society Vol. 6, No. 24 (Jul., 1907), pp. 341-349 Published by: Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society	Oxford
Shelford, Frederic, B.Sc. (Lond), M.Inst.C.E, F.R.G.S	On West African Railways	1902	Journal of the African Society 1(III): 339-354.	London
Shelford, Frederic, B.Sc. (Lond), M.Inst.C.E, F.R.G.S	The Development of West Africa by Railways	1904	Royal Colonial Institute	London
Shelford, Frederic, BSc., (Lond). M.Inst.C.E, F.R.G.S.	Some Features of the West African Government Railways	1912	Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers 189(1911-1912 PtIII): 1-80.	London
Wiener, Lionel	Les Chemins de fer coloniaux de l'Afrique	1930	Goemaere	Brussels
Olukoiu, Ayodeji	The "Liverpool" of West Africa : the dynamics and impact of maritime trade in Lagos, 1900-1950	2004	Africa World Press	Trenton, NJ

Books on Steam Locomotives

These may give more details than Jaekel’s history about specific locos.

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Carling, D Rock	4-8-0 Tender Locomotives	1971	David and Charles	Newton Abbot	The quintessential African steam engine
Durrant, A.E.	The Garratt locomotive	1969	David and Charles	Newton Abbot
Durrant, A.E.	Garratt locomotives of the world	1981	David and Charles	Newton Abbot
Tourret, R.	Allied Military Locomotives of the Second World War	1995	Tourret Publishing	Abingdon	Deals with the US MacArthur’s

Books on Locomotive and Rolling Stock Builders

The history of the builders is reasonably well covered, but much less so on the rolling stock builders.

Author	Title	Date	Publisher	Town	Remarks
Alexander, Colin	The Vulcan Foundry : 150 years of engineering	2017	Amberley	Stroud
Alexander, Colin, Alon Siton.	The North British Locomotive Company	2018	Amberley Publishing,	Stroud
Anon	R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co. Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne.	1910	Mawson, Swan & Morgan, printers	Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Anon	R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd : shipbuilders and marine engine builders.	1955	R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd.	Newcastle upon Tyne
Anon	Short history of R. and W. Hawthorn, Leslie and Company, Ltd, locomotive manufacturers	1920	R. & W. Hawthorn, Leslie & Co., Ltd.	Newcastle upon Tyne
Bailey, M.R.	Built in Britain, The Independent Locomotive Manufacturing Industry in the Nineteenth Century	2021	Railway and Canal Historical Society	Market Drayton
Baker, Allan, C & T.D. Allen Civil	Bagnalls of Stafford, builders of locomotives for the world's railways : a history of the firm and & its folk	2008	Phyllis Rampton Narrow Gauge Railway Trust,	High Halden
Baker, Allan, C and T.D. Allen Civil	Bagnalls of Stafford, locomotive builders and railway engineers 1875-1972	1973	Oakwood Press,	Lingfield
Beddoes, Keith, Colin and Stephen Wheeler	Metro-Cammell : 150 years of craftsmanship	1999	Runpast	Cheltenham
Clark, Edwin Kitson	Kitsons of Leeds, 1837-1937 : a firm and its folk by one of them, Edwin Kitson Clark	1938	The Locomotive Publishing Company, Ltd	London
Clarke, Joseph Finbar	Power on land and sea : 160 years of industrial enterprise on Tyneside : a history of R. & W. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd, engineers and shipbuilder	1979	Northumberland Engine Works	Wallsend
Court, J.H.	North British steam locomotives built 1857-1956 for railways overseas	1978	Bradford Barton	Truro
Gudgin, Douglas Stuart Edward	Vulcan foundry locomotives 1832-1956	1976	Bradford Barton	Truro
Hills R.L. and D. Patrick.	Beyer, Peacock : locomotive builders to the world	1998	:Venture,	Glossop
Hills, R.L.	Beyer Peacock : locomotive builders of Gorton : a short history	1985	North Western Museum of Science and Industry,	Manchester
Hills, R.L.	Beyer, Peacock	1972	North Western Museum of Science and Industry,	Manchester
Hypher, John, Colin and Stephen Wheeler.	Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company : a century of achievement, 1855-1963, in pictures and words	1995	Runpast	Cheltenham
Marconi	The Vulcan Locomotive Works, 1830-1930	2003	P & D Riley	Cheshire
Marconi	Vulcan steam locomotives : a collection of steam trains produced at the famous locomotive works in Lancashire, England.	2003	P & D Riley	Cheshire	Previous ed. published as: Vulcan locomotives. Newton-le-Willows : Vulcan Foundry Ltd. 1955.
Nicolson, Murdoch	Glasgow : locomotive builder to Britain	1998	Glasgow City Libraries and Archives,	Glasgow
Redman, R.N.	The Railway Foundry, Leeds : Hudswell Clarke & Co Ltd : the diesel era	2015	The Industrial Railway Society,	Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire
Redman, R.N.	The Railway Foundry, Leeds, 1839-1969: E. B. Wilson-Hudswell Clarke & Co.	1972	Goose & Son	Norwich
Rodger P. Bradley	Giants of steam : the full story of the North British Locomotive Co. Ltd	1995	Oxford Publishing	Oxford
Rolt, L.T.C.	A Hunslet hundred; one hundred years of locomotive building by the Hunslet Engine Company	1964	David and Charles	Dawlish
Townsley, Don	The Hunslet Engine works : over a century and a half of locomotive building	1998	Plateway Press	East Harling
Vernon, Tony	Yorkshire Engine Company : Sheffield's locomotive manufacturer	2008	History	Stroud
VULCAN FOUNDRY LTD.	The Vulcan Locomotive Works, 1830-1930	1930	Locomotive Publishing Co. Ltd.	London	Only 2 copies are know to exist, one in BL and the other in a private collection. Contact the Trust if you have a specific need for this book.
VULCAN FOUNDRY LTD.	Vulcan Locomotives. [With illustrations.]	1955	VULCAN FOUNDRY LTD.	Newton-le-Willows
WARREN, James G. H	A Century of Locomotive Building by Robert Stephenson & Co., 1823-1923	1923	A. Reid & Co,	Newcastle-on-Tyne	See also A century of locomotive building by Robert Stephenson & Co., 1823-1923. A reprint with a new introduction, by David and Charles 1970
Wear, Russell,	Barclay 150 : a brief history of Andrew Barclay, Sons & Co. Ltd. and Hunslet-Barclay Ltd., Kilmarnock from 1840-1990	1990	Hunslet-Barclay Ltd., 1990.	Kilmarnock, Scotland

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