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Apart from the Hogg book on WW1 allied artillery, and the Osprey on British Heavy Artillery of WW1, are there any books recommended for British railway guns/howitzers? Attached is a great photo of a 12 inch Mk V railway howitzer taken at the Armstrong Whitworth works

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Well, there's the out-of-print Rail Gun by John Batchelor and Ian Hogg:

http://www.amazon.com/Rail-Gun-John-Batchelor/dp/0852423284

It covers many nations and includes a chapter on Britain. Although slim, it's a largish format (a bit larger than A4 landscape, oddly enough) and is packed with scale drawings by Batchelor and much useful and informative text by Hogg.

It's where I nicked this stuff from:

http://landships.activeboard.com/t4482417/postwar-ultra-long-range-systems/

Cracking photo, BTW!



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There is the US Army survey of railway guns from 1919 - it covers all the British railway guns, some in considerable detail. The survey is in 2 volumes and is downloadable.

I'll go digging and see if I can come up with the URLs for these (it's early morning here and I'm not sure I'm awake yet).

Responding to Roger on the French TLP project - there were 4 different long range railway guns built - 3 by Schneider and 1 by Saint-Chamond. There's not a lot of information around on these

but Guy François notes them in the back of his "Les Canons de la Victoire Tome 2". This book is a great reference on French railway guns.

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Here: https://archive.org/details/cu31924092701766

 

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And Volume 1 - https://archive.org/details/railwayartiller00deptgoog

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Charlie



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Bought it through ABEbooks.co.uk - postage far cheaper than Amazon.  They have a few more copies available.

Tony



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The downloadable version only covers the first 196 pages of at least 327 pages of volume II - what a pity; looks fascinating.

Tony

 



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The book has 196 pages but the index refers to 327 paragraphs or sections, an American thing I think... many other US military books I have have a similar arrangement, so it is complete...

eg the table of classified data 327 covers several pages...

 

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Thanks Ironsides, as if things weren't difficult enough!

I need an enormous screen so that one can read the page numbers and see that they are a different thing from the para Nos.

The numbering system does make sense; the number of times military documents get amended, the page numbers would be changing continually from amendments.



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Got myself a copy of the book by Hogg and Batchelor - well worth the relatively low cost ($17.13).

Although the majority of the guns have (as is usual) only a side view, there are some that have THREE views!!!!

A great book if you're into railway guns.

Some of the guns were around 42 metres long - that's 1 200 mm long (almost 4' for the imperial guys) in 35th scale.  However, they pale into total insignificance against the 1/35th Dora kit.  We have one in the military museum built by a friend of mine who decided that he wouldn't have room for it at home - needs about the same space as a full-size billiard table to show it off properly.

The only trouble with railway wagons is the making of the wheels.

Tony



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