Some Notes on Early Railway Lubrication

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• L.T.C. Rolt, George and Robert Stephenson The Railway Revolution (Longman, 1960), p. 168. The Rocket's fast run at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in September 1830 is recorded in several texts, but nowhere better than in Michael R. Bailey and John P. Glithero, The Engineering and History of Rocket (London, 2000), p. 29.
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• James Roscoe of Leicester in England was a minor official for the Midland Railway, who patented a hydrostatic lubricator in 1862. It became very popular in Britain and elsewhere.
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