Cecil J. Allen

Cecil J Allen
Born	1886
Died	1973

Cecil J. Allen (1886 - 1973) was a British railway engineer and technical journalist and writer.

Contents 1 Work 1.1 Bibliography 2 See also 3 References

Work

Qualified as a civil engineer, Allen worked for the Great Eastern Railway and later the London & North Eastern Railway, becoming an authority on steel rails. He inspected new rails for quality.

He also was the second contributor to the long-running British locomotive practice and performance article series in The Railway Magazine from 1909 to 1958,^[1] and then went on to write for Trains Illustrated (now Modern Railways), which at the time was edited by his son, Geoffrey Freeman Allen.

Bibliography

He wrote numerous books on locomotives, and railway company histories, as well as an autobiography:^[1]

Locomotives

• The locomotive exchanges. Ian Allan. 1949. 
• Locomotive practice and performance in the twentieth century. Heffer, Cambridge. 1950 (2nd revised impression). 
• 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 071100322X. ^[2]

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 Coronation" and other famous L.N.E.R.trains. Nicholson & Watson. 1937. 
• Titled trains of Great Britain. Ian Allan. 1946. 
•   (1928). The Steel Highway. London: Longmans, Green & Co.. 
• Modern railways: their engineering, equipment and operation. Faber. 1959. 
• Two million miles of rail travel: the autobiography of Cecil J. Allen. Ian Allan. 1965. 

Other

• Hymns and the Christian faith. London, Pickering & Inglis. 1966. ^[3]

See also

• Geoffrey Freeman Allen, his son, also a writer on railway topics, and first editor of Modern Railways

References

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Name	Allen, Cecil J.
Alternative names
Short description	British railway engineer
Date of birth	1886
Place of birth
Date of death	1973
Place of death