Experiments with Steam: Landmarks in Unusual British Locomotive Design, 1846-1959 |
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
The usual and the exceptional | 7 |
The British Crampton locomotive | 10 |
Copyright | |
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appearance blast pipe bogie boiler pressure booster Brighton Britain British Railways built Bulleid carrying wheels Chief Mechanical Engineer chimney Class coach coal compound compound locomotive connecting rod constructed coupled wheels coupling rods Crampton Crampton locomotive cranks Crewe Crosti cylinders diameter dome driving axle driving wheels drum Drummond Eastern Railway Eastleigh engine's exhaust steam experiment feet fire firebox fireman fitted footplate frames freight gases Giesl Glasgow gradients Gresley hauling heat high-pressure cylinder inside cylinders later lbs per square loading gauge Locomotive Superintendent London & North low-pressure cylinder main line Midland miles an hour North Eastern operated Pacifics Paget pre-heater rails rear rebuilt running plate side smokebox South Southern Railway speed splashers square inch steam locomotive steam rail-motor Stroudley superheater Swindon T.W. Worsdell tank engines tank locomotive tests three-cylinder tons tractive effort traffic turbine Uniflow valve gear Webb weight Western wheel arrangement Worsdell