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Leading wheel and Steam locomotive

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Difference between Leading wheel and Steam locomotive

Leading wheel vs. Steam locomotive

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. A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

Similarities between Leading wheel and Steam locomotive

Leading wheel and Steam locomotive have 9 things in common (in Unionpedia): Bogie, Driving wheel, Duplex locomotive, Great Western Railway, London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, Pennsylvania Railroad, Steam locomotive, UIC classification of locomotive axle arrangements, Whyte notation.

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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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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Duplex locomotive

A duplex locomotive is a steam locomotive that divides the driving force on its wheels by using two pairs of cylinders rigidly mounted to a single locomotive frame; it is not an articulated locomotive.

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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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London, Brighton and South Coast Railway

The London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR; known also as "the Brighton line", "the Brighton Railway" or the Brighton) was a railway company in the United Kingdom from 1846 to 1922.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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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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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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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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Leading wheel and Steam locomotive Comparison

Leading wheel has 31 relations, while Steam locomotive has 495. As they have in common 9, the Jaccard index is 1.71% = 9 / (31 + 495).

References

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