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
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.
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.
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...
Cheers
-- Edited by Ironsides on Monday 10th of March 2014 12:09:55 PM
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.
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.