A Crampton locomotive is a type of steam locomotive designed by Thomas Russell Crampton and built by various firms from 1846. The main British builders...

Brunel's Great Western Railway. He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive but had many engineering interests including the electric telegraph...

Other: Crampton locomotive 6-2-0 locomotive (American usage) G&T Crampton, Irish construction company This page lists people with the surname Crampton. If...

Industrial Locomotive, Vol 1 No 11 (1978) Lowe, J.W., (1989) British Steam Locomotive Builders, Guild Publishing Sharman, M., (1983) The Crampton Locomotive, published...

arrangement is associated with the Crampton locomotive type, and in the USA the single class were sometimes referred to as Cramptons. Other equivalent classifications...

the driving axle is behind the firebox in a layout similar to a Crampton locomotive. This prevents the use of a conventional valve gear layout which...

the boiler of the locomotive would take up the space also needed for the driving axle. One solution to the problem was the Crampton design, in which the...

boiler design was taken to its extreme by Thomas Russell Crampton with his Crampton locomotive, which utilised a much larger driving wheel placed behind...

cabin created by such an arrangement. By about 1850, high speed Crampton locomotives operating in Europe already had a much needed windshield giving some...

several batches of 500 pieces. The Stephenson’s Rocket followed, the Crampton locomotive was the last model produced in the early 1980’s. In order to have...

Railroad (d. 1906). August 6 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for...

damage to the track. The culmination of this approach was seen in the Crampton locomotive where, to make the driving wheels as large as possible, they were...

Canadian patent for an electric-steam locomotive was granted as recently as 1992. The drawing shows a Crampton type 8-4-0 but its intended use is unknown...

founder of Cosentini Associates Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – inventor of the Crampton locomotive and an early advocate of the Channel Tunnel Nicolas-Joseph...

Chatham and Dover Railway had some Crampton locomotives built by Robert Stephenson and Company. The SER also had some Cramptons built by Tulk and Ley. SECR B1...

gravity should be kept low. The most extreme outcome of this was the Crampton locomotive which mounted the driving wheels behind the firebox and could be...

commonly singles could have any number of leading or trailing wheels. Crampton locomotive GWR 3031 Class GNR Stirling 4-2-2 Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1936)...

American Locomotive - Its Development: 1830-1880. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-23818-0., p. 33. Adams, Bob (December 1968). "The Crampton Type...

absorbed companies are not included. No new locomotives were built during his term of office. No new locomotives were built during his term of office. Hurst...

Mallet locomotive completed, by Tubize of Belgium. April 19 – Thomas Russell Crampton, English steam locomotive designer who produced the Crampton locomotive...

0-6-0T locomotives. He introduced the Crampton locomotive to the Nord (and France), and developed an A3A (0-2-6-2-0) Crampton-style tank locomotive. Nicknamed...

preserved steam locomotives in Germany makes no claim to being complete. While there are many surviving examples of several locomotive classes, some are...

time of 50 minutes. The railway purchased six 4-4-0ST Sondes class Crampton locomotives from R and W Hawthorn. These soon proved to be unreliable and would...

it bought in twenty-four of their Jenny Lind locomotives and, in 1848, two unique Crampton locomotives. In 1912 the Midland bought the London, Tilbury...

unsuccessful Crampton locomotive type with twenty examples built between 1847 and 1851. He also patented a double-firebox which enabled locomotives to burn...

engine from Tulk and Ley was a 4-2-0 Crampton locomotive, in 1854. This was works no.17 and M&CR no.12. Seven locomotives were purchased from other suppliers...

Thomas Russell Crampton (Officier) engineer, known for laying the first submarine electric telegraph cable and inventing Crampton locomotive: 303  Bill Cross...

Tootle (ISBN 0307020975) is a children's book written by Gertrude Crampton and illustrated by Tibor Gergely in 1945. It is part of Simon & Schuster's Little...

Davies 2001, p. 86. Davies, John (July 2001). Chemins de fer de l’Est Locomotive List 1839–1938 (Third ed.). Woodbridge, Queensland: Dr. John Davies. ISBN 0-646-06600-5...

engineering contractor Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) – engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive Charles Kettle (1821–1862) – New Zealand...