The end of martynbane.co.uk

The time has come to retire this website. It will run until spring 2026, when the hosting renewal falls due the site will go offline.
However, it will not really disappear forever. It will be possible to browse the full content through a Internet Archive such as Wayback Machine.

To browse my site on Wayback Machine you could start here.

In the meantime, I will endeavour to fix the various broken links so what is archived before spring 2026 is the full site as written.
Thanks and best wishes to everyone who visted my site over the years, made contact or even shared it to others. It is good to know my original intentions behind setting it up were not misplaced.

Martyn Bane October 2025

Porta Papers Vol 4 – Locomotive Boiler Water

Compiled and Edited by Martyn Bane

Porta Papers Vol4 - Locomotive Boiler Water

505 numbered pages – 212,312 words – 152 Colour illustrations – 154 black and white illustrations

23 separate papers – 12 by Ing. L.D. Porta – 9 by other authors – 30 page glossary – 28 pages of references – 14 page index

Available from the Advanced Steam Traction Trust by clicking here

Soft cover £40 hard cover £48 with 20% discount offered to ASTT members

The book is intended for all with an interest in locomotive boiler water from those with limited knowledge of locomotive boiler water issues through to experts

A 72-page sample can be downloaded for free by clicking here

Topics covered include:

• Water Treatment
• Feedwater Heating
• Boiler Water Behaviour

“What counts is what one has in the boiler, not what one feeds into it”
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Martyn Bane 2024