Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Land Transport: Historical reviewH.M. Stationery Office, 1931 - Locomotives |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
PUBLIC RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVES | 10 |
MOUNTAIN LOCOMOTIVES | 73 |
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adopted axleboxes Belpaire fireboxes bogie boiler pressure brake British railways Caledonian Railway carriage cars coach coal Colliery compound engines Compound Locomotive constructed coupled axle coupled wheels crank cylinder engines cylinders driving designed diameter by 24 driving wheels electric locomotives engine weighs engines built engines were built express engines F. W. Webb firebox four-cylinder fuel George Stephenson grate area H. A. Ivatt hauled high-pressure cylinders inside cylinders introduced J. G. Robinson Lancashire and Yorkshire link motion Liverpool and Manchester load loco London and North long-boiler low-pressure cylinders main line Midland and Scottish Midland Railway miles an hour North Eastern Railway North Western Northern Railway passenger engines patented piston valves plate frames rack railway rails Robert Stephenson Scottish Railway simple engines six wheels smokebox steam pressure Stockton and Darlington stroke superheaters tons tractive effort trailing axle trains tramway Trevithick's tyres wagons Walschaerts weight Western Railway Worsdell Yorkshire Railway