The Long Boiler locomotive was the object of a patent by Robert Stephenson and the name became synonymous with the pattern. Its defining feature is that...

horizontal or vertical. This type of boiler was used on virtually all steam locomotives in the horizontal "locomotive" form. This has a cylindrical barrel...

Model Boilers, pp. 60–61. Milton, Marine Steam Boilers, pp. 138–141. "German high-pressure locomotives". Loco Locomotive gallery. Harris, Model Boilers, pp...

locomotive is a type of compound articulated steam locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919). The front of the locomotive...

simple flue must be long if it is to offer adequate heating area. In a short boiler shell, such as required for a steam locomotive, this may be done by...

retained the older round-topped boiler instead. A few American locomotives used saddle tanks that only covered the boiler barrel, forward of the firebox...

material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1...

Bundesbahn Museum, Nuremberg. Long Boiler locomotive 6-2-0 for Crampton locomotives in the USA "London & North Western Railway locomotives: Introduction & pre-Ramsbottom"...

the boiler, or low water level. Corrosion along the edges of lap joints was a common cause of early boiler explosions. In steam locomotive boilers, as...

of World War 1, the diameter of locomotive boilers had increased to the point the cab astride the boiler was no longer practical and railroads stopped...

A haycock boiler is an early form of steam locomotive boiler with a prominently raised firebox of "Gothic arch", "haystack", or "coppernob" shape. The...

with the then current form of locomotive boiler, Hornet with a Yarrow boiler for comparison. The first Yarrow boilers were intended for small destroyers...

less covering between locomotive to locomotive. The front half of the locomotive, in front of the engine unit, contained the boiler. In smaller examples...

accommodate the steam (steam space). This is the type of boiler used in nearly all steam locomotives. The heat source is inside a furnace or firebox that...

part of a locomotive boiler is the firebox, it was an effective design to use a water-tube design here and a conventional fire-tube boiler as an economiser...

An electric–steam locomotive is a steam locomotive that uses electricity to heat the water in the boiler to create steam instead of burning fuel in a firebox...

trains of the trials contest. Rocket uses a multi-tubular boiler design. Previous locomotive boilers consisted of a single pipe surrounded by water (though...

furthermore there were no orders for a locomotive. The Saxonia was intended to open the Leipzig–Dresden railway, the first long-distance railway line in Germany...

Darlington Railway, the first locomotive to run on a public railway. On 1 July 1828, it was heavily damaged when its boiler exploded at Aycliffe Lane station...

This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power: List of boiling liquid...

fireless locomotive, where separately-generated steam is transferred to a receiver (tank) on the locomotive. The steam generator or steam boiler is an integral...

locomotive brake lever, controlling brakes on the locomotive only: 12, 93  steam pressure gauges, which show the pressure of the steam in the boiler: 63 ...

short tons; 15 t); locomotive weight 40.25 long tons (45.08 short tons; 40.90 t). New boilers were fitted to fourteen locomotives between 1912 and 1921...

called to prevent boiler explosion". Low speed trials of Tornado as a live steam locomotive first occurred on the 500-foot (150 m) long track at Darlington...

swivel, much as normal drivers on a locomotive. He mounted the 3-foot (914 mm) diameter by 5-foot (1,524 mm) tall boiler centered on the car with the water...

Three-drum boilers are a class of water-tube boiler used to generate steam, typically to power ships. They are compact and of high evaporative power, factors...

Jenny Lind locomotive, one of the most successful passenger locomotives of its day. Meanwhile, the Stephenson 0-6-0 Long Boiler locomotive with inside...

entirely within the boiler's outer shell. Unlike the locomotive boiler, there is no firebox grate emerging beneath the main boiler. The boiler has similarities...

(31 m according to other sources) long locomotive could not use turntables due to its length. Each of the two boilers had its own coal box and was operated...

The Franco–Crosti boiler is a type of boiler used for steam locomotives. It was designed in the 1930s by Attilio Franco and Dr Piero Crosti. The main...