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73 relations: Adhesion, Archibald Sturrock, August Borsig, Avonside Engine Company, Berlin, Bogie, Boiler, Bristol, Bristol and Exeter Railway, Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-2 locomotives, Broad-gauge railway, Caledonian Railway, Caledonian Railway Single, Cambridgeshire, Central Pacific Railroad, Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, Cylinder (locomotive), Daniel Gooch, Derby Works, Doncaster Works, Double heading, Driving wheel, East Coast Main Line, French locomotive classification, GER Class P43, GNR Class C1 (small boiler), GNR Stirling 4-2-2, Great Central Main Line, Great Central Railway, Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), Great Western Railway, GWR 3031 Class, GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro, GWR Iron Duke Class, Harry Pollitt (engineer), Henry Ivatt, Hot box, James Holden (locomotive engineer), Kerr, Stuart and Company, Leading wheel, LNWR 2-2-2 3020 Cornwall, London, London and North Western Railway, Midland Railway, Midland Railway 115 Class, National Railway Museum, O. S. Nock, Oil, Patrick Stirling, Piston, ..., Plain bearing, Race to the North, Running board, Samuel W. Johnson, Shanghai–Nanjing railway, Steam locomotive, Swiss locomotive and railcar classification, T. D. Judah, Trailing wheel, Turkish locomotive classification, UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements, United Kingdom, Vale of York, Valve gear, Wheel arrangement, Wheelbase, Whyte notation, William Dean (engineer), York, 2-2-2, 4-2-4T, 4-4-0, 4-4-2 (locomotive). Expand index (23 more) »
Adhesion
Adhesion is the tendency of dissimilar particles or surfaces to cling to one another (cohesion refers to the tendency of similar or identical particles/surfaces to cling to one another).
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Archibald Sturrock
Archibald Sturrock (30 September 1816 – 1 January 1909) was a Scottish mechanical engineer who was born at Petruchie, Angus, Scotland.
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August Borsig
Johann Friedrich August Borsig (23 June 1804 – 6 July 1854) was a German businessman who founded the Borsig-Werke factory.
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Avonside Engine Company
The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St. Philip's, Bristol, England between 1864 and 1934.
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Berlin
Berlin is the capital and the largest city of Germany, as well as one of its 16 constituent states.
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Bogie
A bogie (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework carrying wheelsets, attached to a vehicle, thus serving as a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.
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Boiler
A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.
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Bristol
Bristol is a city and county in South West England with a population of 456,000.
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Bristol and Exeter Railway
The Bristol & Exeter Railway (B&ER) was an English railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.
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Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-2 locomotives
The 20 Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-2 locomotives were broad gauge 4-2-2 express steam locomotives built for the Bristol and Exeter Railway by the Stothert and Slaughter in Bristol.
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Broad-gauge railway
A broad-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge broader than the standard-gauge railways.
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Caledonian Railway
The Caledonian Railway (CR) was a major Scottish railway company.
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Caledonian Railway Single
Caledonian Railway Single No.
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Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.), is an East Anglian county in England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the west.
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Central Pacific Railroad
The Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) was a rail route between California and Utah built eastwards from the West Coast in the 1860s, to complete the western part of the "First Transcontinental Railroad" in North America.
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Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works
The Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, located in Paterson, New Jersey, manufactured steam railroad locomotives from 1852 until it was merged with seven other manufacturers to form American Locomotive Company (ALCO) in 1901.
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Cylinder (locomotive)
Cylinders were an important structural part of the steam engines which powered locomotives.
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Daniel Gooch
Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (24 August 1816 – 15 October 1889) was an English railway locomotive and transatlantic cable engineer and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1865 to 1885.
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Derby Works
The Derby railway works comprised a number of British manufacturing facilities designing and building locomotives and rolling stock in Derby, England.
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Doncaster Works
Doncaster railway works is a plant located in the town of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England.
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Double heading
In railroad terminology, double heading indicates the use of two locomotives at the front of a train, each operated individually by its own crew.
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Driving wheel
On a steam locomotive, a driving wheel is a powered wheel which is driven by the locomotive's pistons (or turbine, in the case of a steam turbine locomotive).
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East Coast Main Line
The East Coast Main Line (ECML) is a major railway link between London and Edinburgh via Peterborough, Doncaster, York, Darlington, Durham and Newcastle; it is presently electrified along the whole route.
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French locomotive classification
Under the French classification system for locomotive wheel arrangements, the system is slightly different for steam and electric/diesel vehicles.
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GER Class P43
The GER Class P43 was a class of ten 4-2-2 steam tender locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway.
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GNR Class C1 (small boiler)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Small Boiler Class C1 is a class of steam locomotive, the first 4-4-2 or Atlantic type in Great Britain.
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GNR Stirling 4-2-2
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) No.
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Great Central Main Line
The Great Central Main Line (GCML), also known as the London Extension of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (MS&LR), is a former railway line in the United Kingdom.
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Great Central Railway
The Great Central Railway (GCR) in England came into being when the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway changed its name in 1897 in anticipation of the opening in 1899 of its London Extension (see Great Central Main Line).
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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company established by the Great Northern Railway Act of 1846.
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Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England, the Midlands, and most of Wales.
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GWR 3031 Class
The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899.
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GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro
The GWR 3700 Class steam locomotive No.
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GWR Iron Duke Class
The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.
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Harry Pollitt (engineer)
Harry Pollitt (1864–1945) was Locomotive Engineer of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway from 1894–1897 and its successor, the Great Central Railway, from 1897-1900.
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Henry Ivatt
Henry Alfred Ivatt (16 September 1851 – 25 October 1923) was born in Wentworth, Cambridgeshire, England, and was educated at Liverpool College.
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Hot box
A hot box is the term used when an axle bearing overheats on a piece of railway rolling stock.
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James Holden (locomotive engineer)
James Holden (26 July 1837 – 29 May 1925) was an English locomotive engineer.
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Kerr, Stuart and Company
Kerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England.
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Leading wheel
The leading wheel or leading axle or pilot wheel of a steam locomotive is an unpowered wheel or axle located in front of the driving wheels.
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LNWR 2-2-2 3020 Cornwall
London & North Western Railway 2-2-2 No.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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London and North Western Railway
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR, L&NWR) was a British railway company between 1846 and 1922.
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Midland Railway
The Midland Railway (MR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1844 to 1922, when it became part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
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Midland Railway 115 Class
The Midland Railway 115 Class is a class of 4-2-2 steam locomotive, nicknamed "Spinners".
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National Railway Museum
The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York forming part of the British Science Museum Group of National Museums and telling the story of rail transport in Britain and its impact on society.
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O. S. Nock
Oswald Stevens Nock (21 January 1905 – 29 September 1994), nicknamed Ossie, was a British railway signal engineer and senior manager at the Westinghouse company; he is well known for his prodigious output of popularist publications on railway subjects, including over 100 books, as well as a large number of more technical works on locomotive performance.
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Oil
An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").
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Patrick Stirling
Patrick Stirling (29 June 1820 – 11 November 1895) was a Scottish railway engineer, and Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway of England.
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Piston
A piston is a component of reciprocating engines, reciprocating pumps, gas compressors and pneumatic cylinders, among other similar mechanisms.
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Plain bearing
A plain bearing, or more commonly sliding bearing and slide bearing (in railroading sometimes called a solid bearing or friction bearing), is the simplest type of bearing, comprising just a bearing surface and no rolling elements.
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Race to the North
The Race to the North was the name given by the press to occasions in two summers of the late 19th century when British passenger trains belonging to different companies would literally race each other from London to Scotland over the two principal rail trunk routes connecting the English capital city to Scotland – the West Coast Main Line which runs from London Euston via Crewe and Carlisle and the East Coast Main Line route from London King's Cross via York and Newcastle.
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Running board
A running board or footboard is a narrow step fitted under the side doors of a tram ('''cable car''', trolley, or streetcar in North America), car, or truck.
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Samuel W. Johnson
Samuel Waite Johnson (14 October 1831 – 14 January 1912) was Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Midland Railway from 1873 to 1903.
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Shanghai–Nanjing railway
The Shanghai–Nanjing or Huning railwayChinese: t, s, p Hù–Níng Tiělù.
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Steam locomotive
A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.
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Swiss locomotive and railcar classification
For more than a century, the Swiss locomotive, multiple unit, motor coach and railcar classification system, in either its original or updated forms, has been used to name and classify the rolling stock operated on the railways of Switzerland.
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T. D. Judah
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Trailing wheel
On a steam locomotive, a trailing wheel or trailing axle is generally an unpowered wheel or axle (wheelset) located behind the driving wheels.
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Turkish locomotive classification
In the Turkish classification system for railway locomotives, the number of powered axles are followed by the total number of axles.
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UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements
The UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements, sometimes known as German classificationThe Railway Data File.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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Vale of York
The Vale of York is an area of flat land in the northeast of England.
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Valve gear
The valve gear of a steam engine is the mechanism that operates the inlet and exhaust valves to admit steam into the cylinder and allow exhaust steam to escape, respectively, at the correct points in the cycle.
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Wheel arrangement
In rail transport, a wheel arrangement or wheel configuration is a system of classifying the way in which wheels are distributed under a locomotive.
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Wheelbase
In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels.
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Whyte notation
The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte, and came into use in the early twentieth century following a December 1900 editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal.
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William Dean (engineer)
William Dean (8 January 1840 – 4 September 1905) was the second son of Henry Dean, manager of the Hawes Soap Factory in New Cross, London.
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York
York is a historic walled city at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss in North Yorkshire, England.
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2-2-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and two trailing wheels on one axle.
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4-2-4T
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and four trailing wheels on two axles.
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4-4-0
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels.
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4-4-2 (locomotive)
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents a configuration of four leading wheels on two axles, usually in a leading bogie with a single pivot point, four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and two trailing wheels on one axle, usually in a trailing truck which supports part of the weight of the boiler and firebox and gives the class its main improvement over the configuration.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-2-2
