Book Reviews
F. W. Webb’s Three-cylinder Compounds
By Peter Davis, published by the London & North Western Railway Society, ISBN 9780-9570158-5-2, 268pp hardback, £30.00
At last, a definitive account of the Webb three-cylinder compounds! These were distinguished by two small high pressure outside cylinders, and an exceptionally large diameter low pressure middle cylinder. This unique system was confined to 80 2-2-2-0 and twenty 2-2-2-2 express passenger engines, together with 111 0-8-0 heavy goods engines, that were built by Crewe Works for the London & North Western Railway between 1882 and 1900. All of these had
