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Identifier: railwaylocomotiv16newy (find matches)
Title: Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock
Year: 1901 (1900s)
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Subjects: Railroads Locomotives
Publisher: New York : A. Sinclair Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ers, 19x26ins.: coupled drivers, 90 ins., placed withtheir centres 114 ins. apart; total heatingsurface, 1,577 sq. ft.; grate area, 22.5sq. ft.; total weight, including tender, inworking order, 206.080 lbs. The tender ,has a capacity for 3,525 gallons of waterand 15,680 lbs. of coal. The increasedweight of both the East Coast trainsand also the Midland. Edinboro andNorth trains necessitated more powerfulengines, consequently Mr. Holmes de-signed the 317 class. subject of a patent by .Mr. Drunimond,is the balanced crank axle, the cranksbeing built up and heavy projectionsforged with and directly opposite thewebs. By this means the strains onthe crank axle are, it is claimed, bettercounteracted than when the balanceweights are placed in the wheels. The distance from London (Waterloo)to E.xeter is 171 miles, and with onestop for locomotive purposes at Salis-bury the trains are timed to cover thedistance in 3^ hours. A long distance record run on theL. & N. W. Ry. was made on June 19.
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INTERLOCKING PLANT. NEWCASTLE CENTRAL STATION. a new design running on four-wheeledbogies and carrying 4,100 gallons ofwater, the total weight is 262,080 lbs.Ten of these fine locomotives have beendelivered by the North British Locomo-tive Company from their Atlas works,and are numbered 381-390, inclusive.Several novel features have been intro-duced and the steam reversing gear andsteam sanding apparatus have beenfitted. The North British Railway Companyhave built several of their new passengerlocomotives at the Cowlairs works, andthey are an enlargement of their pre-vious type, 729 class, the most im-portant augmentations being in the sizeof cylinders, boiler and fire box, and total NEW MIXED TRAFFIC LOCOMOTIVE, LON-DON A.MD SOCTH WESTERN RAILWAY. For working the new accelerated ex-press trains from London to the westof England, Mr. Dugald Drummond hasbuilt at the Nine Elms Works a new-class of mixed traffic locomotive hav-ing 72 in. coupled drivers, a leadingbogie and a large boiler

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  • bookyear:1901
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Railroads
  • booksubject:Locomotives
  • bookpublisher:New_York___A__Sinclair_Co
  • bookcontributor:Carnegie_Library_of_Pittsburgh
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:421
  • bookcollection:carnegie_lib_pittsburgh
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