A compound locomotive is a steam locomotive which is powered by a compound engine, a type of steam engine where steam is expanded in two or more stages...
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locomotive is a type of compound articulated steam locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919). The front of the locomotive...
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Articulated locomotive Garratt locomotive Fairlie locomotive Mallet locomotive Cab forward locomotive Compound locomotive Duplex locomotive Electric-steam...
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of steam locomotives were simple-expansion (with some compound locomotives converted to simple). It was realised by engineers that locomotives at steady...
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steam locomotives ever built. The first Garratt locomotives constructed, the Tasmanian Government Railways K class were also compound locomotives, but...
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Midland Railway 1000 Class (redirect from Midland compound)
developed from a series of five locomotives (2631–2635) introduced in 1902 by Samuel Waite Johnson, which had a 3-cylinder compound arrangement on the Smith...
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The Vauclain compound was a type of compound steam locomotive that was briefly popular from the early 1890’s to the mid-1900’s. Developed by the Baldwin...
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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Compound 4-4-0 was a class of steam locomotive designed for passenger work. One hundred and ninety five engines...
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passes through a turbine, the two stages being dissimilar. In a compound steam locomotive, the steam passes from the high-pressure cylinder or cylinders...
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Anatole Mallet (category Locomotive builders and designers)
successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. He is known for having invented three important forms of compound locomotive. In...
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4-6-2 (redirect from Pacific (locomotive))
express passenger locomotive class to be built for the unified German railway system. The Class 02 four-cylinder compound locomotive version was less successful...
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Russian locomotive class U (Russian: У) was a Russian express passenger steam locomotive type. The class U was a 4-6-0 four-cylinder compound locomotive which...
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4-6-0 (category 4-6-0 locomotives)
A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles...
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Steam engine (section Compound engines)
engine with steam-powered water pump Boyle's law Compound locomotive Cylinder Geared steam locomotive History of steam road vehicles Lean's Engine Reporter...
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steam locomotives ever used in Sweden. The superheated compound locomotive could produce 1,140 kilowatts (1,529 hp). During the 1930s the locomotives became...
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The X class is a metre gauge 0-8-2RT rack and pinion compound locomotive used by the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in the Nilgiri Hills of southern India....
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E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E21 E22 E23 E28 - Compound E29 - Compound "de Glehn" #2512, a single experimental compound locomotive The 2-6-0 "Mogul" type was assigned...
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tandem compound steam locomotive in service, based on its Schenectady-built 8th Class of 1901. It was similar to the tandem compound locomotive which had...
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Between 1908 and 1910, Hanomag built 99 Prussian S 9 locomotives. All were four-cylinder compound engines working on saturated steam. The Prussian Atlantics...
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Richard Deeley (category Locomotive builders and designers)
made significant contributions to compounding, adopting Smith's system for his Midland Compound 4-4-0 locomotives. However, the refusal of the company's...
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LNER Class W1 (category Compound locomotives)
gracesguide.co.uk "High‐pressure compound locomotive, London & North Eastern railway". Journal of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers. 20 (94): 134–136...
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The design was a tank locomotive, carrying all its fuel and water on board the locomotive proper, and a compound locomotive. The boiler and superstructure...
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Class, later name of the LNWR Alfred the Great Class of railway compound locomotive All pages with titles containing Benbow Benbo, a Nigerian village...
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GNRI Class V (category Compound locomotives)
The Great Northern Railway V class steam locomotives were 4-4-0 three-cylinder compound locomotives built in 1932 by Beyer, Peacock & Company for the Great...
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[self-published source] The concept of the duplex locomotive originated in the early development of the compound locomotive, in which the high-pressure cylinders...
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André Chapelon (category Locomotive builders and designers)
smaller locomotive that burned less coal, rather than simply enlarging a locomotive for more power. He was a major proponent of the compound locomotive, and...
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The locomotive was the first Russian steam locomotive preserved. The Russian locomotive class U was a four-cylinder de Glehn compound locomotive, which...
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South African Class Experimental 1 4-6-2 (redirect from CGR Compound Karoo 4-6-2)
Government Railways placed a single experimental three-cylinder compound steam locomotive with a 4-6-2 Pacific type wheel arrangement in service between...
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2-8-8-8-8-2 (category Articulated locomotives)
was a strong proponent of compound locomotives in the 1910s. This would have been, in 1913, by far the largest steam locomotive ever proposed. In quadruplex...
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Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 (category Railway locomotives introduced in 1949)
Western Maryland Scenic Railroad 1309 is a compound articulated class "H-6" "Mallet" type steam locomotive with a 2-6-6-2 (Whyte notation) wheel arrangement...
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