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59 relations: Articulated locomotive, Australia, Australian Standard Garratt, Benguela railway, Beyer, Peacock and Company, Bogie, Boiler, Cab (locomotive), Clyde Engineering, Distinguished Service Order, Driving wheel, EAR 59 class, East African Railways and Harbours Corporation, Emu Bay Railway, Frederick Mills (engineer), Fyansford Cement Works Railway, Garratt, Henschel & Son, History of rail transport in Tanzania, Islington Railway Workshops, Kenya, Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours, Krupp, KUR EC class, Leading wheel, Luanda Railway, Midland Railway Workshops, Moçâmedes Railway, Mombasa, Nairobi, Newport Workshops, North British Locomotive Company, Queensland Rail, Railway system of the Soviet Union, Société Franco-Belge, South African Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2, South African Class GEA 4-8-2+2-8-4, South African Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4, South African Class GM 4-8-2+2-8-4, South African Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4, South African Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4, South African type X-17 water tender, South African type X-20 water tender, South Australian Railways, South Australian Railways 400 class, Steam locomotive, Tanganyika, Tasmanian Government Railways, Trailing wheel, Transnet Freight Rail, ..., Uganda, Uganda Railway, Walschaerts valve gear, Western Australian Government Railways, Wheel arrangement, Whyte notation, World War II, 2-8-2+2-8-2, 4-8-2. Expand index (9 more) »
Articulated locomotive
The term "articulated locomotive" usually means a steam locomotive with one or more engine units which can move independent of the main frame.
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Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.
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Australian Standard Garratt
The Australian Standard Garratt (ASG) was a Garratt steam locomotive designed in Australia during World War II, and used on narrow gauge railway systems in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
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Benguela railway
The Benguela railway (Caminho de Ferro de Benguela (CFB)) is a Cape gauge railway in Angola that connects the Atlantic port of Lobito to the eastern border town of Luau.
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Beyer, Peacock and Company
Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Gorton, Manchester.
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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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Cab (locomotive)
The cab, crew compartment or driver's compartment of a locomotive, or a self-propelled rail vehicle, is the part housing the train driver or engineer, the fireman or driver's assistant (secondman) (if any), and the controls necessary for the locomotive's, or self-propelled rail vehicle's, operation.
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Clyde Engineering
Clyde Engineering was an Australian manufacturer of locomotives, rolling stock, and other industrial products.
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Distinguished Service Order
The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.
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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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EAR 59 class
The EAR 59 class was a class of oil-fired gauge Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives.
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East African Railways and Harbours Corporation
The East African Railways and Harbours Corporation (EAR&H) is a defunct company that operated railways and harbours in East Africa from 1948 to 1977.
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Emu Bay Railway
The Emu Bay Railway was an Australian railway company.
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Frederick Mills (engineer)
Frederick Mills (1898 – 22 June 1949) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Western Australian Government Railways from 1940 until his death in 1949.
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Fyansford Cement Works Railway
The Fyansford Cement Works Railway was an industrial railway near Geelong, Australia, built by the Australian Portland Cement Company to carry limestone from its quarry to its cement works at Fyansford.
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Garratt
A Garratt (often referred to as a Beyer Garratt) is a type of steam locomotive that is articulated into three parts.
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Henschel & Son
Henschel & Son (Henschel und Sohn) was a German company, located in Kassel, best known during the 20th century as a maker of transportation equipment, including locomotives, trucks, buses and trolleybuses, and armoured fighting vehicles and weapons.
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History of rail transport in Tanzania
The history of rail transport in Tanzania began in the late nineteenth century.
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Islington Railway Workshops
The Islington Railway Workshops are railway workshops in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, South Australia.
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Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.
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Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours
Kenya and Uganda Railways and Harbours (KURH) ran harbours, railways and lake and river ferries in Kenya Colony and the Uganda Protectorate from 1929 until 1948.
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Krupp
The Krupp family (see pronunciation), a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, became famous for their production of steel, artillery, ammunition, and other armaments.
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KUR EC class
The KUR EC class was a class of gauge Garratt-type articulated steam locomotives.
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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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Luanda Railway
| | The Luanda Railway (sometimes called Angola Railway) is a 424 km single-track Cape gauge railway line from the Angolan capital of Luanda to Malanje.
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Midland Railway Workshops
The Midland Railway Workshops in Midland, Western Australia were the main workshops for the Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) for over 80 years.
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Moçâmedes Railway
The Moçâmedes Railway (Caminho de Ferro de Moçâmedes (CFM)) is a 860 km railway line in Angola, between Moçâmedes and Menongue.
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Mombasa
Mombasa is a city on the coast of Kenya.
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Nairobi
Nairobi is the capital and the largest city of Kenya.
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Newport Workshops
The Newport Railway Workshops is a facility in the Melbourne suburb of Newport, Australia, that builds, maintains and refurbishes railway rollingstock.
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North British Locomotive Company
The North British Locomotive Company (NBL, NB Loco or North British) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and Company (Queens Park Works), creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe and the British Empire.
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Queensland Rail
Queensland Rail, also known as QR, is a railway operator in Queensland, Australia.
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Railway system of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Railways (Russian: Cоветские железные дороги (CЖД)) was the state owned national railway system of the Soviet Union, headquartered in Moscow.
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Société Franco-Belge
The Société Franco-Belge was a Franco-Belgian engineering firm that specialised in the construction of railway vehicles and their components and accessories.
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South African Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2
The South African Railways Class GE 2-8-2+2-8-2 of 1925 was an articulated steam locomotive.
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South African Class GEA 4-8-2+2-8-4
The South African Railways Class GEA 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1946 was an articulated steam locomotive.
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South African Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4
The South African Railways Class GL 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1929 was an articulated steam locomotive.
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South African Class GM 4-8-2+2-8-4
The South African Railways Class GM 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1938 was an articulated steam locomotive.
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South African Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4
The South African Railways Class GMA 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1954 was an articulated steam locomotive.
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South African Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4
The South African Railways Class GO 4-8-2+2-8-4 of 1954 was an articulated steam locomotive.
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South African type X-17 water tender
The South African type X-17 water tender was a Garratt steam locomotive tender.
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South African type X-20 water tender
The South African type X-20 water tender was a Garratt steam locomotive tender.
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South Australian Railways
South Australian Railways was the statutory corporation through which the Government of South Australia built and operated railways in South Australia from 1854 until March 1978, when its non-urban railways were incorporated into Australian National, and its Adelaide urban lines were transferred to the State Transport Authority.
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South Australian Railways 400 class
The South Australian Railways 400 class was a class of 4-8-2+2-8-4 steam locomotives built in the early 1950s.
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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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Tanganyika
Tanganyika was a sovereign state, comprising the mainland part of present-day Tanzania, that existed from 1961 until 1964.
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Tasmanian Government Railways
The Tasmanian Government Railways (TGR) was the former operator of the mainline railways in Tasmania, Australia.
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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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Transnet Freight Rail
Transnet Freight Rail is a South African rail transport company, formerly known as Spoornet.
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Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.
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Uganda Railway
Mainly built to serve as a transport system of carrying goods such as minerals from interior Uganda and the Magadi section in Kenya, the once famous railway also faced some drawbacks to its completion.
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Walschaerts valve gear
The Walschaerts valve gear is a type of valve gear invented by Belgian railway mechanical engineer Egide Walschaerts in 1844 used to regulate the flow of steam to the pistons in steam engines.
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Western Australian Government Railways
Western Australian Government Railways (WAGR) was the operator of railway services in the state of Western Australia between October 1890 and June 2003.
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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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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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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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2-8-2+2-8-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, a is an articulated locomotive using a pair of power units back to back, with the boiler and cab suspended between them.
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4-8-2
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, eight powered and coupled driving wheels and two trailing wheels.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-8-2%2B2-8-4
