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BR Standard Class 5

Index BR Standard Class 5

The British Railways Standard Class 5MT 4-6-0 was one of the 12 standard classes of steam locomotive built by British Railways in the 1950s. [1]

54 relations: Bluebell Railway, Boiler, BR Standard Class 5 73050, BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot, BR Standard Class 5 73096, BR Standard Class 5 73129, BR Standard Class 5 73156, BR Standard Class 8, British Rail, Camelot, Caprotti valve gear, Derby Works, Doncaster Works, East Sussex, Elaine (legend), Elaine of Astolat, Electric multiple unit, Excalibur, Great Central Railway (heritage railway), Great Western Railway Power and Weight Classification, Green Knight, Hampshire, Iron–nickel alloy, Iseult, Lady of the Lake, Lancelot, Leodegrance, LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0, LSWR N15 class, Lynette and Lyonesse, Lyonesse, Mangalloy, Merlin, Midland Railway – Butterley, Millbrook, Southampton, Morgan le Fay, Nene Valley Railway, Pelléas and Mélisande, Pelleas, Pellinore, Pendragon, Poppet valve, Red Knight, Robert Riddles, Route availability, Southampton Terminus railway station, St Pancras railway station, Terminus (1961 film), Tintagel, Uther Pendragon, ..., Walschaerts valve gear, Watercress Line, William Stanier, 4-6-0. Expand index (4 more) »

Bluebell Railway

The Bluebell Railway is a heritage line almost entirely in West Sussex in England, except for Sheffield Park which is in East Sussex.

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Boiler

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

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BR Standard Class 5 73050

British Railways Standard Class 5 No.

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BR Standard Class 5 73082 Camelot

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BR Standard Class 5 73096

British Railways Standard Class 5 No.

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BR Standard Class 5 73129

British Railways Standard Class 5 No.

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BR Standard Class 5 73156

British Railways Standard Class 5 No.

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BR Standard Class 8

The BR Standard Class 8 was a class of 4-6-2 ''Pacific'' steam locomotive designed by Robert Riddles for use by British Railways.

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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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Camelot

Camelot is a castle and court associated with the legendary King Arthur.

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Caprotti valve gear

The Caprotti valve gear is a type of steam engine valve gear invented in the early 1920s by Italian architect and engineer Arturo Caprotti.

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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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East Sussex

East Sussex is a county in South East England.

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Elaine (legend)

Elaine is a name shared by several different female characters in Arthurian legend.

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Elaine of Astolat

Elaine of Astolat is a figure in Arthurian legend who dies of her unrequited love for Sir Lancelot.

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Electric multiple unit

An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages, using electricity as the motive power.

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Excalibur

Excalibur, or Caliburn, is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes also attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain.

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Great Central Railway (heritage railway)

The Great Central Railway (GCR) is a heritage railway in Leicestershire, named after the company that originally built this stretch of railway.

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Great Western Railway Power and Weight Classification

From 1920, the cab side of Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotives bore a letter on a coloured disc, which enabled staff to quickly assess the capabilities of locomotives without the need to check tables of data.

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Green Knight

The Green Knight is a character of the 14th-century Arthurian poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the related medieval work The Greene Knight.

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Hampshire

Hampshire (abbreviated Hants) is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom.

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Iron–nickel alloy

An iron–nickel alloy or nickel–iron alloy, abbreviated FeNi or NiFe, is a group of alloys consisting primarily of the elements nickel (Ni) and iron (Fe).

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Iseult

Iseult, alternatively Isolde, Iseo, Yseult, Isode, Isoude, Izolda, Esyllt, Isotta, is the name of several characters in the Arthurian story of Tristan and Iseult.

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Lady of the Lake

The Lady of the Lake is an enchantress in the Matter of Britain, the body of medieval literature and legend associated with King Arthur.

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Lancelot

Sir Lancelot du Lac (meaning Lancelot of the Lake), alternatively also written as Launcelot and other spellings, is one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend.

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Leodegrance

King Leodegrance, sometimes Leondegrance, Leodogran, or variations thereof, is the father of Queen Guinevere in Arthurian legend.

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LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0

The London Midland and Scottish Railway Class 5 4-6-0, almost universally known as the Black Five, is a class of steam locomotive.

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LSWR N15 class

The LSWR N15 class was a British 2–cylinder 4-6-0 express passenger steam locomotive designed by Robert W. Urie.

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Lynette and Lyonesse

In the Arthurian legend, Lynette (alternatively known as Linnet, Linette, Lynet, or Lyonet) is a haughty noble lady who travels to King Arthur's court seeking help for her beautiful sister Lyonesse (also Linesse, Lionesse, Lyonorr and other names), whose lands are besieged by the Red Knight of the Red Lands.

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Lyonesse

Lyonesse is a country in Arthurian legend, particularly in the story of Tristan and Iseult.

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Mangalloy

Mangalloy, also called manganese steel or Hadfield steel, is an alloy steel containing an average of around 13% manganese.

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Merlin

Merlin (Myrddin) is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in Arthurian legend and medieval Welsh poetry.

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Midland Railway – Butterley

The Midland Railway – Butterley is a heritage railway at Butterley, near Ripley in Derbyshire.

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Millbrook, Southampton

Millbrook is a suburb and former civil parish of Southampton.

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Morgan le Fay

Morgan le Fay, alternatively known as Morgaine, Morgain, Morgana, Morganna, Morgant, Morgane, Morgen, Morgne, Morgue and other names and spellings, is a powerful enchantress in the Arthurian legend.

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Nene Valley Railway

The Nene Valley Railway (NVR) is a preserved railway in Cambridgeshire, England, running between Peterborough Nene Valley and Yarwell Junction.

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Pelléas and Mélisande

Pelléas and Mélisande (Pelléas et Mélisande) is a Symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck about the forbidden, doomed love of the title characters.

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Pelleas

Pelleas, or Pellias, is a Knight of the Round Table in Arthurian legend.

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Pellinore

King Pellinore is the king of Listenoise or of "the Isles" (possibly Anglesey, or perhaps the medieval kingdom of the same name), according to the Arthurian legend.

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Pendragon

Pendragon or Pen Draig (Middle Welsh pen dragon, pen dreic; composed of Welsh pen, "head, chief, top" and draig/dragon, "dragon; warrior"; borrowed from the Latin word dracō, plural dracōnēs, "dragon") literally means "Chief-Dragon" or "Head-Dragon", but in a figurative sense, "chief leader", "chief of warriors", "commander-in-chief", "generalissimo", or "chief governor".  It is the epithet of Uther, father of King Arthur in medieval and modern Arthurian literature and occasionally applied to historical Welsh heroes in medieval Welsh poetry, such as Rhodri ab Owain Gwynedd.

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Poppet valve

A poppet valve (also called mushroom valve) is a valve typically used to control the timing and quantity of gas or vapour flow into an engine.

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Red Knight

Red Knight is a title borne by several characters in Arthurian legend.

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Robert Riddles

Robert Arthur "Robin" Riddles, CBE, MIMechE, MinstLE (23 May 1892 – 18 June 1983) was a British locomotive engineer.

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Route availability

Route Availability (RA) is the system by which the permanent way and supporting works (bridges, embankments, etc.) of the railway network of Great Britain are graded.

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Southampton Terminus railway station

Southampton Terminus railway station served the docks and city centre of Southampton, England from 1839 until 1966.

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St Pancras railway station

St Pancras railway station, also known as London St Pancras and officially since 2007 as St Pancras International, is a central London railway terminus located on Euston Road in the London Borough of Camden.

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Terminus (1961 film)

Terminus is a 1961 British Transport Film documentary (filmed in August, 1960) directed by John Schlesinger which presents a "fly-on-the-wall" look at an ordinary day at Waterloo station in London.

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Tintagel

Tintagel or Trevena (Tre war Venydh meaning village on a mountain) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Uther Pendragon

Uther Pendragon (Uthyr Pendragon, Uthyr Bendragon), also known as King Uther, is a legendary king of sub-Roman Britain and the father of King Arthur.

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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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Watercress Line

The Watercress Line is the marketing name of the Mid Hants Railway, a heritage railway in Hampshire, England, running from New Alresford to Alton where it connects to the National Rail network.

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William Stanier

Sir William Arthur Stanier, FRS (27 May 1876 – 27 September 1965) was Chief Mechanical Engineer of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

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4-6-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, represents the configuration of four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie, six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles and no trailing wheels.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BR_Standard_Class_5

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