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BR Standard Class 6 and Steam locomotive

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Difference between BR Standard Class 6 and Steam locomotive

BR Standard Class 6 vs. Steam locomotive

The Standard class 6, otherwise known as the Clan Class, was a class of 4-6-2 ''Pacific'' tender steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for use by British Railways. A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

Similarities between BR Standard Class 6 and Steam locomotive

BR Standard Class 6 and Steam locomotive have 19 things in common (in Unionpedia): Bank engine, Blastpipe, Boiler, British Rail, Darlington, Diesel locomotive, Dieselisation, LNER Peppercorn Class A1, London and North Eastern Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway, Oliver Bulleid, Scotland, Southern Railway (UK), SR Merchant Navy class, Steam locomotive, Tender (rail), The Railway Magazine, Walschaerts valve gear, 4-6-2.

Bank engine

A bank engine (United Kingdom/Australia) (colloquially a banker) or helper engine or pusher engine (North America) is a railway locomotive that temporarily assists a train that requires additional power or traction to climb a gradient (or bank).

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Blastpipe

The blastpipe is part of the exhaust system of a steam locomotive that discharges exhaust steam from the cylinders into the smokebox beneath the chimney in order to increase the draught through the fire.

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Boiler

A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated.

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British Rail

British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was the state-owned company that operated most of the rail transport in Great Britain between 1948 and 1997.

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Darlington

Darlington is a large market town in County Durham, in North East England.

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Diesel locomotive

A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engine.

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Dieselisation

Dieselisation or dieselization is a term generally used for the increasingly common use of diesel fuel in vehicles, or known to be said "Rise of diesel power" as opposed to gasoline or steam engines.

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LNER Peppercorn Class A1

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Peppercorn Class A1 is a type of express passenger steam locomotive.

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London and North Eastern Railway

The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) was the second largest (after LMS) of the "Big Four" railway companies created by the Railways Act 1921 in Britain.

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London, Midland and Scottish Railway

The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS)It has been argued that the initials LMSR should be used to be consistent with LNER, GWR and SR.

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Oliver Bulleid

Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid CBE (19 September 1882 – 25 April 1970) was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Southern Railway (UK)

The Southern Railway (SR), sometimes shortened to 'Southern', was a British railway company established in the 1923 Grouping.

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SR Merchant Navy class

The SR Merchant Navy class (originally known as the 21C1 class, and later informally known as Bulleid Pacifics, Spam Cans or Packets) is a class of air-smoothed 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotives designed for the Southern Railway by Oliver Bulleid.

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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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Tender (rail)

A tender or coal-car is a special rail vehicle hauled by a steam locomotive containing its fuel (wood, coal, or oil) and water.

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The Railway Magazine

The Railway Magazine is a monthly British railway magazine, aimed at the railway enthusiast market, that has been published in London since July 1897.

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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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4-6-2

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and two trailing wheels on one axle.

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BR Standard Class 6 and Steam locomotive Comparison

BR Standard Class 6 has 89 relations, while Steam locomotive has 495. As they have in common 19, the Jaccard index is 3.25% = 19 / (89 + 495).

References

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