Cecil J. Allen
Cecil J Allen | |
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| Born | 1886 |
| Died | 5 February 1973 |
| Nationality | English |
| Occupation | Railway engineer |
| Employer(s) | Great Eastern Railway London & North Eastern Railway |
Cecil John Allen[1] (1886 – 5 February 1973[2]) was a British railway engineer and technical journalist and writer.
Work
[edit]Allen qualified as a civil engineer and joined the Great Eastern Railway in 1903, later working for the London & North Eastern Railway retiring in 1946.[3] He inspected new rails for quality.
Allen also was the second contributor to the long-running British locomotive practice and performance article series in The Railway Magazine from 1909 to 1958,[4] He was concurrently editor of Trains Illustrated in the 1940s, and was succeeded in that position by his son, Geoffrey Freeman Allen, in 1950.[5]
Allen was a committed Christian and an accomplished organist, writing a chorus "The Lord has need of me". He was offered a place on the train when Mallard broke the world speed record in 1938, but declined the offer as the run was scheduled for a Sunday morning and clashed with his regular church (Christian Brethren) attendance.[citation needed] He died on 5 February 1973.[6]
Bibliography
[edit]He wrote numerous books on locomotives, and railway company histories, as well as an autobiography "Two Million Miles of Train Travel":[4]
- Locomotives
- The locomotive exchanges. Ian Allan Publishing. 1949.
- Locomotive practice and performance in the twentieth century (2nd revised impression ed.). Heffer, Cambridge. 1950.
- The Stanier Pacific of the L.M.S.. London. Ian Allan. 1950.
- The Gresley Pacifics of the LNER. Ian Allan. 1950.
- The Bulleid Pacifics of the Southern Region. Ian Allan. 1951.
- British Pacific locomotives. Ian Allan. 1962.
- British Atlantic locomotives. Ian Allan. 1968.
- —; revised & enlarged by G. Freeman Allen (1976). British Atlantic locomotives (2nd ed.). Ian Allan.
- Cecil J. Allen; et al. (1972). The Deltics : a symposium. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-0322-X.[7]
- Railway company histories
- The Great Eastern Railway. Ian Allan. 1955.
- The North Eastern Railway. Ian Allan. 1964.
- The London & North Eastern Railway. Ian Allan. 1966.
- General railways
- The Iron Road: The Wonders of Railway Progress. John F. Shaw & Co. Ltd. 1925.
- Railways of To-day: Their Evolution, Equipment and Operation. Frederick Warne & Company. 1929.
- "The Coronation" and other famous L.N.E.R.trains. Nicholson & Watson. 1937.
- Titled trains of Great Britain. Ian Allan. 1946.
- Switzerland's Amazing Railways (4th revised ed.). Thomas Nelson & Sons, London. 1965.
- The Steel Highway. Longmans, Green & Co, London. 1928.
- Modern railways: their engineering, equipment and operation. Faber. 1959.
- Two million miles of rail travel: the autobiography of Cecil J. Allen. Ian Allan. 1965.
- Salute to the Great Western. Shepperton: Ian Allan. 1970. ISBN 0-7110-0181-2.
- Other
- Hymns and the Christian faith. London, Pickering & Inglis. 1966.[8]
See also
[edit]- Geoffrey Freeman Allen, his son, also a writer on railway topics, and first editor of Modern Railways
References
[edit]- ^ "Allen, Cecil J., 1886-1973" at Library of Congress Linked Data Service.
- ^ Obituary in The Times 7 February 1973
- ^ Mr Cecil J Allen The Railway Magazine issue 566 November 1946 page 389
- ^ a b "Cecil J. Allen". www.steamindex.com.
- ^ Roger Ford (16 August 1995). "Geoffrey Freeman Allen: The model railway writer". The Guardian. p. 10.
- ^ Cecil J Allen The Railway Magazine issue 872 March 1973 page 189
- ^ "The Deltics: a symposium by Cecil J. Allen and others". catalogue.nla.gov.au. National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Hymns and the Christian faith 1 edition, By Cecil John Allen". www.openlibrary.org.
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