1/ @Xhanti0330 asked me to recommend some reading regarding my recent thread on the Great East Asian Transversal Railway and global railway electrification.

Here follows a few titles in English, French, Japanese and Chinese, on the topics above and railway social history https://twitter.com/tettd489/status/1318938217660346368
2/ My early-teenage life changed with "Southern Electric". Rlys are political/strategic, not just technical/aesthetic or models! Southern Electric was about getting things done - the largest electric suburban network by 1939. Eastern Electric - failures, struggles, late success.
2/ My early-teenage life changed with "Southern Electric". Rlys are political/strategic, not just technical/aesthetic or models! Southern Electric was about getting things done - the largest electric suburban network by 1939. Eastern Electric - failures, struggles, late success.
2/ My early-teenage life changed with "Southern Electric". Rlys are political/strategic, not just technical/aesthetic or models! Southern Electric was about getting things done - the largest electric suburban network by 1939. Eastern Electric - failures, struggles, late success.
3/ It is through John Glover that I got to know about "alternate history" (what-ifs). When having a bad day stalling in progress, I remind myself that King's Cross passengers waited for their electric trains from 1901 to 1976, promised by each succeeding party! Feels better now!
3/ It is through John Glover that I got to know about "alternate history" (what-ifs). When having a bad day stalling in progress, I remind myself that King's Cross passengers waited for their electric trains from 1901 to 1976, promised by each succeeding party! Feels better now!
3/ It is through John Glover that I got to know about "alternate history" (what-ifs). When having a bad day stalling in progress, I remind myself that King's Cross passengers waited for their electric trains from 1901 to 1976, promised by each succeeding party! Feels better now!
4/ The most complete guide into AC and DC rolling stock, making clear the contrast, despite deceiving similarities, have been compiled by veteran railway journalist Colin J. Marsden - a class-by-class introduction that includes lots of details on how the design process evolved
4/ The most complete guide into AC and DC rolling stock, making clear the contrast, despite deceiving similarities, have been compiled by veteran railway journalist Colin J. Marsden - a class-by-class introduction that includes lots of details on how the design process evolved
4/ The most complete guide into AC and DC rolling stock, making clear the contrast, despite deceiving similarities, have been compiled by veteran railway journalist Colin J. Marsden - a class-by-class introduction that includes lots of details on how the design process evolved
5/ If new to the topic, consult Cooper, who has a long section introducing the technicalities of an electric train, plus all subsequent history. For LBSCR's pioneering 1909 AC scheme see Goslin's sadly out-of-print & rare book from the excellent railway publisher, Connor & Butler
5/ If new to the topic, consult Cooper, who has a long section introducing the technicalities of an electric train, plus all subsequent history. For LBSCR's pioneering 1909 AC scheme see Goslin's sadly out-of-print & rare book from the excellent railway publisher, Connor & Butler
5/ If new to the topic, consult Cooper, who has a long section introducing the technicalities of an electric train, plus all subsequent history. For LBSCR's pioneering 1909 AC scheme see Goslin's sadly out-of-print & rare book from the excellent railway publisher, Connor & Butler
6/ My mother was a designer trained in '70s London. This has affected my interest in railways. David Lawrence has written some marvellous works on the Tube, and also BR architecture, graphic and even rolling stock design. Imagine being told that the most mundane had a philosophy!
6/ My mother was a designer trained in '70s London. This has affected my interest in railways. David Lawrence has written some marvellous works on the Tube, and also BR architecture, graphic and even rolling stock design. Imagine being told that the most mundane had a philosophy!
6/ My mother was a designer trained in '70s London. This has affected my interest in railways. David Lawrence has written some marvellous works on the Tube, and also BR architecture, graphic and even rolling stock design. Imagine being told that the most mundane had a philosophy!
6/ My mother was a designer trained in '70s London. This has affected my interest in railways. David Lawrence has written some marvellous works on the Tube, and also BR architecture, graphic and even rolling stock design. Imagine being told that the most mundane had a philosophy!
7/ If Lawrence wrote the def. guides to tube architecture, names like Leslie Green & Charles Holden being well known, then Paul Moss has written the companion vol. on the int. & ext. design of trains. Again you would not have expected how much thought had gone into such matters.
7/ If Lawrence wrote the def. guides to tube architecture, names like Leslie Green & Charles Holden being well known, then Paul Moss has written the companion vol. on the int. & ext. design of trains. Again you would not have expected how much thought had gone into such matters.
7/ If Lawrence wrote the def. guides to tube architecture, names like Leslie Green & Charles Holden being well known, then Paul Moss has written the companion vol. on the int. & ext. design of trains. Again you would not have expected how much thought had gone into such matters.
7/ If Lawrence wrote the def. guides to tube architecture, names like Leslie Green & Charles Holden being well known, then Paul Moss has written the companion vol. on the int. & ext. design of trains. Again you would not have expected how much thought had gone into such matters.
8/ The books above are not just about UK trains, they also give an idea of what studying railways from an industrial design/technical POV could be like. We cross the channel - Cuynet gives a straight-forward account of French railway electrification from the 1900s to the present.
8/ The books above are not just about UK trains, they also give an idea of what studying railways from an industrial design/technical POV could be like. We cross the channel - Cuynet gives a straight-forward account of French railway electrification from the 1900s to the present.
8/ The books above are not just about UK trains, they also give an idea of what studying railways from an industrial design/technical POV could be like. We cross the channel - Cuynet gives a straight-forward account of French railway electrification from the 1900s to the present.
9/ Bruno Carrière has written many books on Paris' suburban networks, the two below being the most political/strategic. I also recommend his pictorial works on each of Paris' terminals (we say "termini") and their suburban services. Check out SNCF publisher @LaViedurail1 's site.
10/ For China's rlys there are many political analyses (eg. Railroads and the Tranformation of China by Koll) For a taste of its technical history, see Gibbons. Until China made its own locos in the 1950s it imported from all major powers - quipped "The International Loco Fair".
10/ For China's rlys there are many political analyses (eg. Railroads and the Tranformation of China by Koll) For a taste of its technical history, see Gibbons. Until China made its own locos in the 1950s it imported from all major powers - quipped "The International Loco Fair".
10/ For China's rlys there are many political analyses (eg. Railroads and the Tranformation of China by Koll) For a taste of its technical history, see Gibbons. Until China made its own locos in the 1950s it imported from all major powers - quipped "The International Loco Fair".
11/ Rly histories in China are usually official, corporate histories. Interesting stuff started with photographer Wang Wei's trilogy, "My Peking-Kalgan Railway", a section-by-section analysis of changes in route & relics from the 1909 opening, using archival and satellite images.
12/ Wang Wei's doing important work since the Peking-Kalgan Railway was the first Chinese-designed line in history, by Yale graduate Jeme Tien-yow. It boasted zig-zag lines parallel to old trade route, climbing over Badaling Pass on the Great Wall, linking Peking with Mongolia.
12/ Wang Wei's doing important work since the Peking-Kalgan Railway was the first Chinese-designed line in history, by Yale graduate Jeme Tien-yow. It boasted zig-zag lines parallel to old trade route, climbing over Badaling Pass on the Great Wall, linking Peking with Mongolia.
12/ Wang Wei's doing important work since the Peking-Kalgan Railway was the first Chinese-designed line in history, by Yale graduate Jeme Tien-yow. It boasted zig-zag lines parallel to old trade route, climbing over Badaling Pass on the Great Wall, linking Peking with Mongolia.
13/ Amano Hiroyuki has written two books - "12 Chapters to Help Understand the South Manchuria Railway" and "The Birth of the 'Asia Express' ". The first book contains sections on female (!) and Chinese labour on the line, as well as its large network of hospitals and clinics.
13/ Amano Hiroyuki has written two books - "12 Chapters to Help Understand the South Manchuria Railway" and "The Birth of the 'Asia Express' ". The first book contains sections on female (!) and Chinese labour on the line, as well as its large network of hospitals and clinics.
13/ Amano Hiroyuki has written two books - "12 Chapters to Help Understand the South Manchuria Railway" and "The Birth of the 'Asia Express' ". The first book contains sections on female (!) and Chinese labour on the line, as well as its large network of hospitals and clinics.
14/ Ito Takeo was a Communist who worked in the South Manchuria Railway Investigation Dept, a RAND Corporation-like intelligence organisation that prided in (and was purged for) being Marxist.

Too heavy? Browse Takaki Hiroyuki's Manchuria album which also covers colonial Korea!
14/ Ito Takeo was a Communist who worked in the South Manchuria Railway Investigation Dept, a RAND Corporation-like intelligence organisation that prided in (and was purged for) being Marxist. Too heavy? Browse Takaki Hiroyuki's Manchuria album which also covers colonial Korea!
14/ Ito Takeo was a Communist who worked in the South Manchuria Railway Investigation Dept, a RAND Corporation-like intelligence organisation that prided in (and was purged for) being Marxist. Too heavy? Browse Takaki Hiroyuki's Manchuria album which also covers colonial Korea!
15/ Old periodicals eg "Railway Magazine" can be bought for 10 GBP/12 copies. Great source of rare info.

A thread on transnational rly history readings and where to start with rly technical history. #Ntihor #Techhist @newcomen @Matt_Alt @TinMillPress @leena_lindell @rwinstanleyc
15/ Old periodicals eg "Railway Magazine" can be bought for 10 GBP/12 copies. Great source of rare info.A thread on transnational rly history readings and where to start with rly technical history. #Ntihor #Techhist @newcomen @Matt_Alt @TinMillPress @leena_lindell @rwinstanleyc
15/ Old periodicals eg "Railway Magazine" can be bought for 10 GBP/12 copies. Great source of rare info.A thread on transnational rly history readings and where to start with rly technical history. #Ntihor #Techhist @newcomen @Matt_Alt @TinMillPress @leena_lindell @rwinstanleyc
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