Author

Title

Date

Publisher

Remarks

ALLEN, Peter

Locomotives of Many Lands

1954

The Locomotive Publishing Co Ltd, London

A book of photographs by the author, with personal descriptions of steam locomotives in 25 countries, including Argentina, Brasil, Chile and Perú.

ANDREWS, David & ENDERBY, Mark

Ecuador 1991 – Down the Devil’s Nose and Ecuador 2015 – Restoration and Renovation

2016

Locomotives International @100

A compilation of the best articles selected from the first 100 issues of the magazine. Both these two articles have amazing photographs.

BEYER, PEACOCK & Co. Ltd.

Locomotives 1854-1907; a souvenir publication when the 5000th locomotive was nearing completion and the Company had achieved its 50th jubilee

1907

The Works at Gorton, Manchester, is described and illustrated, followed by works photos of many of the locomotives constructed, in chronological order.

BEYER-GARRATT

Articulated Locomotives

December 1947

Fanfare Press, London, 164pp

Following a preface, the details of typical designs are listed by gauge, company and country delivered to, with an index of types of articulation. All the gauges found in Argentina and the rest of South America are covered.

BEYER-PEACOCK

Quarterly Review, Vol 3 No 1 (1929), Vol 4 No 1 (1930), Vol 4 No 2 (1930), Vol. 4 No 4 (1930), Vol. 5 No 2 (1931)

1929-31

These and other issues contain articles, specifications and illustrations of many types of Beyer-Peacock and Beyer-Garratt locomotives and the countries and companies they operated in, including Argentina.

BINNS, Donald

Kitson Meyer Articulated Locomotives

2003

Trackside Publications, revised and enlarged edition, 144pp

A revised history recording the development, construction and operation of the 78 Kitson Meyer locomotives built by Kitson & Company, Leeds, supplied to the Argentine and Chilean Transandine Railways, and to several railways in other South American countries. Many illustrations with informative captions.

CAMPBELL, J

Rail Cars – Notes on their Introduction, Design and Operation (with Special Reference to Argentine Conditions); Paper 365 for the Jour. of the Inst. of Loco. Engrs.

Presented to Members at a meeting in Mendoza, Argentina, on 26th September, 1936

This lengthy paper and subsequent discussion considers the use of rail cars in Argentina and other South American countries.

CAMPBELL, Ricardo, LOPEZ, Mario Justo & WADDELL, Jorge Eduardo

Railway Rolling Stock made in Argentina 1884-1945

2023

Lenguage Claro, 154pp

This profusely illustrated bi-lingual book covers the history of rolling stock manufacture in Argentina, in the workshops of the privately-owned British railways and State lines, of passenger carriages, cargo vehicles, steam locomotives, diesel-electric multiple units and railcars.

CHRISTIAN, Roy & MILLS, Ken

South American Steam

1970

Published by the authors, 74pp

There are chapters with introductions, detailed photo captions and locomotive rosters for all the South American countries which have railways. The authors also describe their experiences of the lines they travelled on.

CHRISTIAN, Roy & MILLS, Ken

World of South American Steam

1974

Published by the authors, 136pp

Much as the previous entry, but with more professional maps and more on Argentine railways.

COURT, John H.

North British Steam Locomotives – built 1857-1956 for railways overseas

1959

Bradford Barton

After a useful Introduction describing the antecedents of the North British Locomotive Co. Ltd., the book contains about 300 high-quality illustrations of locomotives built for overseas railways, including South America (mainly Argentina).

DURRANT, Anthony Edward

Garratt Locomotives of the World

1981

Book Club Associates by arrangement with David and Charles (Publishers) Ltd, second edition, 207pp

Chapter 6, America, is entirely dedicated to South American countries as no country north of the Panama Canal used Garratt locomotives at that time. A detailed list sets out the Garratts operated in Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, most of which are illustrated.

FINCH, M. Henry J.

South American Steam – a pictorial survey

1974

Bradford Barton, 135 black-and-white photos taken by the author over 96 pages

This is said to be the first pictorial survey to be published in Britain on South American railways as a whole. About 40 pages are on the Argentine railways (Roca-BAGS, Urquiza standard gauge, Belgrano-metre gauge, and Rio Turbio-75cm gauge), and the remainder cover Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay. Guyana and Venezuela are not mentioned, so not quite the whole!

FORSBERG, Bernt

Ångturbinlok

2011

Svenska Järnvägsklubben, Stockholm, 104pp

This book is about steam turbine locomotives. It is in Swedish, but there is an introduction in English, and all illustrations have English captions. The two Swedish brothers Ljungström founded a company which built a condensing steam turbine loco. After tests it was completely rebuilt and tried out on Swedish State Railways in 1923, where it was found to have better performance than existing locos over long distances (Stockholm-Göteborg), running faster and using much less coal and water. This led to an order in 1926 for two locos for the Argentine State metre-gauge line from Santa Fe to Tucumán, described in a 9-page section of the book. They were successful but were withdrawn in 1929 because of high maintenance costs.

GARRATT, Colin

World of Steam – Working Steam Locomotives of the World

1988

Peerage Books, Second Edition

Colour photos with explanatory captions of locomotives from Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

GUDGIN, D.S.E.

Vulcan Foundry Locomotives 1832 – 1956

1976

Bradford Barton, 95pp

D.S.E. Gudgin, C.E., F.I.Mech.E. joined the Vulcan Works at Newton-le-Willows in 1938 and retired from there in 1974 after 21 years as Works Manager. Vulcan mainly exported steam locomotives to India, but also supplied some to the Southern and Central Argentine railways in Argentina, as well as to Bolivia, Chile and Uruguay in South America.

GUTIÉRREZ, Luis

The 4-6-0, the Class A and the Jones Goods – Central Argentine Railway 4-6-0 Locomotives

2024

British Overseas Railways Journal, No 49, pp11-20

The author, who researches for the Tren Rodante (Rolling Stock) magazine in Buenos Aires, has made a study of the history and connections between the British design and manufacture of the CAR A-Class 4-6-0 locos, the Jones Goods locos and the Indian L-Class 4-6-0s, concluding that the whole family were all derived from the CAR 4-6-0 locomotive design.

HAND, Victor & EDMONSON, Harold

The Love of Trains – Steam and Diesel Locomotives in Action Around the World

1974

Octopus Books

This book contains two interesting chapters with maps and very good colour photos: “Andean Spectacular – The Belgrano Railway in Northern Argentina”, and “Coal for the Mills of Volta Redonda” about the Estrada de Ferro Dona Cristina railway in Brasil.

HARMAN, Fred W.

The Locomotives Built by Manning Wardle &Company – Volume 3, Broad Gauge and Works List

c. 1990

Century Locoprints, 105pp

The Company built 79 locomotives between 1866 and 1925 for railways and ports in Argentina, and 13 for railways and mines in Chile between 1889 and 1920. The Works List fills over half the book. There is also a chapter with colour photos of preserved Manning Wardle locomotives.

HASLBECK, Günter & WARDALE, David

Steam on Four Continents, Part I – Europe & South America

1984

Published by the authors in German and English, 128pp

This book of photographs, with informative introductions to each section, is largely about Europe, but about a quarter of the pages contain some very good photos of railways in Argentina (southern Patagonia), Brasil, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Ecuador (only one page).

HILLS, Richard L., & Patrick, David

Beyer, Peacock – locomotive builders to the world

1982

The Transport Publishing Company, Glossop, Derbyshire, 302pp

This comprehensive history was made possible by Beyer, Peacock & Co Ltd presenting its archives and unique photographic record to the then embryonic Manchester Museum of Science and Technology when the Gorton Foundry in Manchester was closed in 1966. During its 112 years of activity, Beyer, Peacock designed and manufactured over 8,000 locomotives for railways all over the world, including many for Argentina and other South American countries. From 1949, Beyer, Peacock also constructed electric, diesel-electric and gas-turbine locomotives in association with Metropolitan-Vickers Ltd of Manchester.

HILLS, Richard L.

Beyer Peacock Locomotive Order List

1997

British Overseas Railways Historical Trust

This list complements the information in the previous reference

HILLS, Richard L.

The Origins of the Garratt Locomotive

2000

Plateway Press

This small book is based on the booklet “The Garratt Patent Locomotive” originally published by Beyer, Peacock & Co. Ltd. in 1911, and reprinted with additional material in 1921. It contains several works photos of Garratt locomotives as well as illustrations of the locomotives in active operation.

HUDSON, Mike & ATKINS, Philip

Locos Lost at Sea – The all-time definitive record

September 2007

The Railway Magazine

A world-wide record which includes many locos being shipped to Argentine and South American railways.

HUMM, Robert

The Ferroclub Argentino

April 2006

Heritage Railway Magazine, No 84, pp82-85

The author reports on locomotive preservation in Argentina at the Remedios de Escalada General Roca (ex-BAGS) workshop and at the Lynch General Urquiza (ex-BA Central) workshop in Buenos Aires.

KOCH, Günter

Some Electric Veterans in South America

2004

Locomotives International Diesels and Electrics, Special Edition No. 2

The author writes about and illustrates electric veteran locomotives in Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil and Colombia.

KOCH, Günter & Shaun McMAHON

Steam Ends at Rio Turbio and Rio Turbio Resurrection

2016

Locomotives International @100

A compilation of the best articles selected from the magazine’s first 100 issues. The first of these two articles dates from 1996, whereas the second one is a 2015 update.

LLOYD, Joe (Compiler)

Beyer-Garratt Articulated Locomotives

Printed in July 2008 and reprinted in January 2009 (177pp)

This book was part of the centenary celebration in 2008 by the Welsh Highland Railway of one hundred years since the design of the first Garratt locomotive, which now works on the WHR. It contains a complete and extensively illustrated list of all the Garratts built (or ordered from) Beyer-Garratt, including many delivered to railways in Argentina and other South American countries.

McMAHON, Shaun

Modern Steam Developments in Argentina

Winter 2006/7

Locomotives International, No.79

This short and well-illustrated article reports on developments at the two furthest south lines in Argentina, the Ferrocarril Austral Fuegino (FCAF) and the Rio Turbio Railway (RFIRT), in the context of the 5AT project and the possible extension of the Rio Turbio line west to Puerto Natales in Chile (not as yet).

NOCK, O.S.

Railways – at the Zenith of Steam 1920-40

1970

Blandford Press, London, 184pp

The title of this book is a bit misleading, as it mostly illustrates steam locomotives (in colour), though there are a few pictures of railcars, rolling stock, signal gantries and signal boxes. Each picture has a short caption, but longer descriptions follow after the picture section.

North British Locomotive Company Ltd

Locomotives Manufactured for Argentina

1910

Pamphlet describing the exhibits shown at the International Exhibition of Railways and Land Transport in Buenos Aires from May to November 1910 marking the Centenary of the foundation of the Republic of Argentina, together with a number of photographs of locomotives supplied to Argentine railway companies.

O’DONNELL, John Patrick

Improvements in and relating to Valve Mechanism for Locomotive and like Steam Engines

1915

British Patent Application, No. 8805

A method of reducing the effect of cylinder back-pressure in the well-known valve-gear mechanisms. It seems that O’Donnell was an engineer employed by Percy Grant & Company Ltd, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

PEREZ DARNAUD, Carlos A.

Catálogo General de Locomotoras Diesel

2007

MDT-Trenes, Buenos Aires (mdttrenes.tripod.com)

This printed document in Spanish is a general catalogue of the railway diesel locomotives then operating in Argentina. A historical introduction is followed by full details of each class, with photos and lists of manufacturers and internal transfers.

PEREZ DARNAUD, Carlos A.

Roster General de Locomotoras Diesel – Ferroviarias-Portuarias-Mineras

MDT Trenes, Buenos Aires, 59pp, 6th Edition

This roster overlaps with some of the content of the previous entry, but without the historical content and including locomotives in Argentine ports and mines as well as railways.

POOLE, John

Argentine Broad Gauge Locomotive Design

1923

Paper presented to a meeting of the South American Centre of the Inst. of Loco. Engrs. on 21st December 1923, at Retiro Station in Buenos Aires, and published in the Journal of the ILE, Vol XIV, No. 65, p299.

A very important contribution to the history and engineering details of Argentine locomotive design.

PORTA, Livio Dante

Advanced Steam Locomotive Development – Three Technical Papers

2006

The Estate of L.D. Porta, published by Adam Harris at Camden Miniature Steam Services with a brief biography of Porta.

L.D. Porta is perhaps the most well-known Argentine steam locomotive design engineer. He studied and further developed the work of the French locomotive designer André Chapelon, and stimulated the work of the Advanced Steam Locomotive Group of engineers, which achieved significant performance and efficiency improvements. The main paper is Steam Locomotive Development in Argentina – Its Contribution to the Future Railway Technology in the Under-Developed Countries; Paper No. 721, presented to the Manchester Centre of the Inst. Loco. Engrs. on 7th March, 1969. The other papers are Fundamentals of the Porta Compound System for Steam Locomotives, first circulated privately in October 2000; and Some Steam Leakage Tests on Locomotive NORA of the Ferrocarril Austral Fuegino (Southern Railway in Tierra del Fuego, Ushuaia, Argentina, known as the Train at the End of the World), on 6th October 1999.

PURDOM, Douglas S.

British Steam on the Pampas – The Locomotives of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

1977

Mechanical Engineering Publications Ltd

A description of all the locomotive classes, both steam and diesel-electric, designed, developed and operated by BAGS, together with the history and development of the railway itself.

RILEY, P.& D.

Vulcan Steam Locomotives

2003

First published by the Vulcan Foundry Limited in 1955 as part of a promotional brochure, and then in this edition (64pp) in 2003

Starts with a Historical Note and then continues with photos and details of a selection of locomotives built for service in many countries, including the Roca (Southern) and Mitre (Central Argentine) railways in Argentina.

SZÉCSEY, István

Ganz – Railway Vehicles between 1920 and 1959

2013

GANZ & MÁVAG, 406pp

This book is written in Hungarian, but the introductory pages include pieces in English, and a list in English of the vehicles manufactured during the period in the title. All the many black-and-white illustrations have English captions. Ganz delivered many railcars to several Argentine railways during the period, with some also to the State Railways of Uruguay.

THOMAS, Glyn

Experimental Railbus for Argentina

Autumn 2024

The British Overseas Railways Journal, No 49, pp 31-32

A railcar designed by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Co., combining slanted guide wheels with rubber-tyred carrying wheels, for the Argentine Entre Rios Railway.

WARDALE, David

The Red Devil – and Other Tales from the Age of Steam

2002

Published by the author in 1998, and reprinted in 1999 and 2002, 522pp.

The first five chapters cover David Wardale’s work as a steam locomotive designer for South African Railways. This is followed by chapters on his investigations into steam locomotive developments in the U.S.A. and China. Why include this book in a South American bibliography? The answer is that Wardale followed in the footsteps of Chapelon, actively collaborated with Porta, and stimulated many designers in the search for a modern steam locomotive that could compete with diesel and other types of railway locomotive. In this sense, it is currently the most valuable book on the steam locomotive. Wardale references Chapelon and Porta throughout the book, which also contains an appendix written by Porta.

VARIOUS AUTHORS

Where There’s Smoke, Part 2, Pakistan to Patagonia

2021

CADECO, 192pp

This is a compilation of outstanding photographs with descriptive captions featuring steam locomotives, with a substantial section on Latin American railways, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru.

WEBB, Brian

Armstrong Whitworth – A Pioneer of World Diesel Traction

2010

Lightmoor Press in collaboration with the R.C.T.S., 184pp

This book describes the Company’s work on diesel and diesel-electric traction following the end of WW1 up to about 1937. This work really took off when the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway (BAGSR), Pedro C. Saccaggio visited the Company in 1926 to investigate the possibility of them supplying suitable diesel and diesel-electric train sets for the very busy BAGSR suburban services. These sets began to be delivered to BAGRS from 1932 onwards, together with diesel shunters and some railcars to BAGSR and other Argentine and South American railways. There are many illustrations, technical drawings and works lists.

WILDISH, Gerald

Preserved Locomotives, Volume 3: North, Central & South America

1980-1981 Edition

RPS Publications, 164pp

Much information, but obviously by now out of date. Other more recent lists must exist.

Author

Title

Date

Publisher

Remarks

ANDREWS, M.H.

Electricity in Transport 1883-1950

1951

English Electric Co. Ltd., 184pp

A well-illustrated treatise on the electric and diesel-electric traction equipment manufactured by English Electric and its predecessors Siemens and Dick-Kerr, and supplied to railways in Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, and Venezuela, and other countries world-wide.

CALTHROP, Everard. R.

Light Railway Construction

1997

Paper written in 1897 and reprinted as a 34-page booklet by Plateway Press

After a note by Andrew Neale and an introduction on narrow-gauge light railways, the Barsi Light Railway in India is described as a demonstration of the efficiency and usefulness of the light railway concept.

DEL SOLAR, Josefina

Retiro – Apuntes sobre la Historia de Buenos Aires

1999

La Gaceta del Retiro, Buenos Aires

The history of the oldest neighbourhood in Buenos Aires, including a chapter on the early (1862) station of the BA Northern Railway to San Fernando, and a chapter on the Central Argentine Railway BA terminus inaugurated in 1915.

GODDARD, P.

Traffic Control, Central Argentine Railway

September 21, 1928.

Railway Gazette, p351,

Extracts from a paper presented at a Meeting of the Argentine Centre of the Institute of Transport in Buenos Aires. The theme is the introduction of a new Central Control traffic organisation. This covered the whole network, involving several district control offices with the office at Rosario becoming the Central Control. As a result, faster and better train services became possible.

GRIFFITHS, R.S.

The Signalling of Single Line Stations

April 18th 1945

Proc. IRSE, pp35-63 and diagram attachments

This paper covers a number of station signalling solutions for single lines, including layouts of typical stations on the BAGSR in Argentina and the State Railway in Chile, as well as an unusual layout on the Central Uruguay Railway.

IDLE, William

Improvements in Automatic Tension Devices for Adjusting the Wires in Railway Signals or Semaphores

1903

British Patent Application No. 10,611

Mr Idle was a railway engineer who lived and worked in Buenos Aires for one of the Railway Companies (not specified in the application), who had created a method for overcoming the problem of the expansion or contraction of signal wires when the ambient temperature changed.

RAILWAY GAZETTE

Temperley Junction Re-signalling – Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway

April 1928

11pp

The system adopted for the re-signalling was the Westinghouse Brake & Saxby Signal Company’s electro-pneumatic power signalling scheme, which could be controlled from just one signal box. The article contains many details of the scheme, including track diagrams and equipment illustrations.

RAILWAY GAZETTE

Re-signalling Buenos Aires Approach Lines, Central Argentine Railway

November 29, 1929

p855

This was required in order to handle the increasing passenger traffic more efficiently. The article includes before-and-after track layout and lower-quadrant semaphore positions, the latter including automatic and semi-automatic signals.

RAILWAY GAZETTE

Switching –out Electric Train Staff Sections on the Central Argentine Railway

May 20, 1938

p982

A useful new circuit arrangement for switching out sections of a single-line electric staff control circuit, without needing extra pairs of lengthy electric cables, by using a code of voltage impulses instead. This was first applied to a section leading up to Tucuman station from La Banda station, so that it could be switched out when traffic was low. This is a very early application of a digital electronic control technique!

RAILWAY GAZETTE

Electric Railway Traction

1940

Volumes 1 & 2

A collection of supplements to the R.G. issued from 1933 to 1940. It includes reports on the third-rail electrification of the Central Argentine suburban network and underground (Subte) lines in Buenos Aires, on the Central, Paulina and Sorocabana Railways of Brasil, on signalling on electrified lines, and a list of electrified lines in 1933.

ROBERT HUDSON LTD

Light Railway Material

2016

Reprint by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society of the 1915 edition of the Leeds Company, 90pp, 2016

A catalogue of track and its accessories, equipment for filling and emptying wagons, haulage mechanisms (including steam, diesel and petrol locomotives), carriages and goods wagons, mining tubs and other plant, and many more materials for light railways worldwide including Argentina and other South American countries.

METROPOLITAN-VICKERS ELECTRICAL CO. LTD.

Electrification Work for Overseas Railways

c. 1930

Published by the Company, 76pp

Contains reports on electrification work done for railways in Argentina (Buenos Aires Western and Central Argentine) and Brasil (Oeste de Minas and Paulista), as well as for other countries

MARCÓ, Félix

Apuntes sobre Señales en los Ferrocarriles Argentinos

1959

Published by the Office of the National Inspector of Railways, Buenos Aires, 58pp

A practical description and interpretation of the Argentine signalling system with many illustrations in colour, for signalmen, drivers and firemen.

NOCK, O.S. (Editor)

Single Line Railways

1966

David and Charles, 358pp

This is a book of general interest because all the railways in South America are single lines, except for their inner and outer suburban networks. However, there is little directly of interest to specific South American railways, though there are prints of single-line construction in British Guiana (now Guyana) and a Bolivian diesel-electric railcar. Chapter 16, Signalling, is also relevant, given the changes in train control on the Argentine long-distance lines after privatisation.

TARTARINI, Daniel)

Arquitectura Ferroviaria en la Provincia de Buenos Aires

2007

Chapter V in the Second Part of the book compiled by Lopez and Waddell, pp455-483

This Chapter describes the architecture of the stations and other railway related buildings in the Province of Buenos Aires and includes several illustrations.

Author

Title

Date

Publisher

Remarks

BURTON, Anthony

The Railway Empire

1994

John Murray, 264pp

This book is the story of the men who men who set out from Britian to build railways all over the world. Many went to South American countries, including Argentina, Brasil, Chile and Venezuela.

CAMPBELL, Richard

Al Maestro, Con Cariño

August-September 2003

article published in the magazine “Todo Trenes”, Buenos Aires, Year 5, No. 25, pp25-29

COLEMAN, Arturo H.

Mi Vida de Ferroviario Inglés en la Argentina,1887-1948

1949

Privately published

Written in Spanish by the Welsh author, describing his life in Argentina working for the Southern Railway (BAGSR), where he rose to become the senior manager in the Bahia Blanca sector of the Railway.

DAMUS, Sylvester

Who was Who in Argentine Railways 1860-1960

2020

DIA Agency, Inc, 3rd edition

800 short biographies of contractors, engineers, managers and other persons active in the construction and development of the railways in Argentina

FIFER, Valerie J.

William Wheelwright (1798-1873), Steamship and Railroad Pioneer

1998

The Historical Society of Old Newbury, Massachusetts, USA, 150pp

A biography of the pioneer, mostly concerned with his life and work on railways in Chile and Argentina, with maps and some black-and-white illustrations.

GAULD, Charles A.

The Last Titan – Percival Farquhar

1972

California Institute of International Studies, Stanford, USA, Glenwood Publishers, 458pp

This biography concentrates mainly on Farquhar’s life and work as an entrepreneur in Brasil and all the photographs relate to Brasil, though he was also active in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Perú. I have listed it here because the circumstances of his purchase and later sale in the mid-1910s of several French-owned railways in Argentina is mentioned and clarified.

GÓMEZ, Teresita

Promotores y Técnicos en el Tendido del Ferrocarril del Oeste

2007

Chapter I in the Second Part of the book compiled by Lopez and Waddell, pp 291-339

This Chapter is about the promotors and technical staff who created and developed the Buenos Aires Western Railway, the first railway in Argentina.

HELPS, Sir Arthur

Life and Labours of Mr. Brassey, 1805-1870

1872

Bell & Dalby, London

This historically interesting biography of Thomas Brassey, railway construction engineer, was dedicated to Queen Victoria and was written in the style of the period. Brassey worked in several countries in the world, but is listed here as the constructor of what became the Central Argentine Railway from the City of Rosario on the River Paraná northeast to Córdoba City in the interior, a distance of about 460 miles.

KIRBY, Catherine E.

H.F. GRANT & Cía S.A. – Celebrating one hundred years in Argentina

November 2016

Illustrated article published in The Bulletin of the Anglo-Argentine Society

The Company was founded in 1916 by two British engineers, Henry F.T. Grant and William J. Hughes, who had emigrated to Argentina in the early 1900s. They saw the business opportunities that would emerge after WW1 and created a thriving enterprise which constructed railway lines and roads, built bridges and laid power and comms cables. Eventually they focussed only on building and paving roads. The author describes the company’s foundation, its development, to the present life and work of the Grant Family.

MAIR, Craig

David Angus – The Life and Adventures of a Victorian Railway Engineer

1989

Strong Oak Press, black-and-white photos and maps, 218pp

David Angus (1855-1926) was a Scottish railway engineer who surveyed and constructed railways in South America, in Brasil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Chile. His life and work was both productive (establishing several important new routes) and exciting (in Paraguay a bullet through a house window cut off part of his ear).

PAULING, George

The Chronicles of a Contractor

1969

Books of Rhodesia, Bulawayo, Rhodesiana Reprint Library Volume 4, 264pp and illustrations

This is the autobiography of George Pauling (1854-1919), a civil engineer. His life and work was spent mainly in southern Africa, where his company built railways, roads, bridges and other works. Between 1901 and 1905 he formed a company in Argentina which worked on number of projects, including: a dam, an aqueduct (at Tafi Viejo) and irrigation canals, all in Tucuman Province; the La Plata tramway; a large harbour project for the River Parana at Rosario (judged excellent, but not accepted) and another large project to provide inundation canals in Buenos Aires Province (accepted, but never funded).

UNION FERROVIARIA

Personal de Peones de Cuadrilla de Via

1939

Buenos Aires

A booklet published by one of the main Argentine railway unions setting out the regulations and pay scales of their track labourer members.

SACCAGGIO, Pedro C.

See his contribution in the WEBB, Brian entry in the first subsection.

WEBB, Wolstan

Thirty Years Around the World – Adventures of a Railway Signals Engineer

1991

Published by the author, 226pp

After graduating as a mechanical engineer, he trained and worked as a signalling engineer with the Westinghouse Brake and Saxby Signal Company in the 1920s. Later this led to work from 1938 in Brasil and Argentina with the US General Railway Signal Company. After war work of various kinds, he returned to Buenos Aires in 1947 until 1955, after which he worked as a United Nations advisor in several other countries, including Iran, Thailand and Pakistan.