A fireman, stoker or boilerman is a person who tends the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the...
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firefighters. Fireman or Firemen may also refer to: Fireman (steam engine), an individual employed to tend the fire for running a steam engine, either on...
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In a steam engine, the firebox is the area where the fuel is burned, producing heat to boil the water in the boiler. Most are somewhat box-shaped, hence...
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when they had finished their runs. Sanders progressed to become a fireman (steam engine stoker) from the age of 16. He worked the job for nearly three years...
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Fireman Sam (Welsh: Sam Tân) first broadcast on 17 November 1987 on the Welsh TV channel S4C. The series is set in the fictional Welsh town of Pontypandy...
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automatically and the process repeats. Steam shovels usually had at least a three-man crew: engineer, fireman and ground man. There was much jockeying...
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volume increases 1,700 times. Functionally, it is a steam engine on wheels. In most locomotives, the steam is admitted alternately to each end of its cylinders...
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Wallace Oakes died as a result, and his fireman Gwilym Roberts was severely injured. "The management of steam locomotive boilers. Risks to people: reversal...
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within the engine department include the fireman, who was a rating responsible for shoveling coal into the boiler furnaces of steam engines, and the coal...
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fireman sits at the rear, stoking the fire and maintaining the water level in the boiler. The boiler itself was taken from a Merryweather fire engine...
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Compartment where the engineer (US+) / driver (UK+) and fireman control the locomotive and tend the steam supply and firebox.: 15 They achieve that using various...
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former railway locomotive fireman with the Royal Scot train, who described how steam engines came to life when you spent time steaming them up in the morning...
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Thomas & Friends (redirect from Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends on DVD and Video)
Edward, Henry and Toby being removed from the Steam Team to make room for two new female steam engines named Nia (Africa) and Rebecca (UK), and the narrator...
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Fred Dibnah (redirect from Fred Dibnah's Age of Steam)
upon coal to fuel its industry. As a child, he was fascinated by the steam engines which powered the many textile mills in Bolton, but he paid particular...
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Motive power depot (redirect from Engine shed)
sheds", "engine sheds" or just "sheds". Facilities are provided for refuelling and the replenishing of water, lubricating oil and grease and, for steam engines...
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A steam railcar is a rail vehicle that does not require a locomotive as it contains its own steam engine. The first steam railcar was an experimental...
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129–30. ISBN 0-434-92762-7. "Steam Loco Class Information" Rail UK. "James". "The Real Lives of Thomas the Tank Engine" (The real prototype locomotives...
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named Charlie Sand and Sidney Hever, the only engine crew to be given names (apart from Henry's fireman, revealed to be named Ted in the Thomas & Friends...
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Train driver (redirect from Engine driver)
(for steam locomotives) was engine cleaner, passed engine cleaner (i.e. the employee has passed the assessment for fireman), fireman, passed fireman (i...
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caused his engine and train to move, accelerate/decelerate, reverse, or stop, based upon commands given to him by the train's Conductor. The Fireman provided...
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en route. After completing all the formalities, the engine driver and fireman went to their engine, which was either berthed in the locomotive shed or...
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British accent who serves as the vice leader of the toys and Little Engine's fireman. Mocean Melvin as Big Locomotive, a silver streamlined Dream Hauler...
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BR Standard Class 9F (category Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain)
required part of the grate by high-pressure steam jets controlled by the fireman. The stoker made higher steaming rates possible, and it was hoped that mechanical...
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Tender (rail) (redirect from Tender engine)
Refilling the tender is the job of the fireman, who is responsible for maintaining the locomotive's fire, steam pressure, and supply of fuel and water...
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was black, not blonde; the train's fireman had no part in causing the crash; and among other differences, the engine's number was 134, not 143. Meanwhile...
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Casey Jones (section Later history of engines)
from the Rogers Locomotive Works, it was a very powerful engine for the time. His regular fireman on No. 638 was his close friend John Wesley McKinnie, with...
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Fireless locomotive (redirect from Fireless steam locomotive)
type of locomotive which uses reciprocating engines powered from a reservoir of compressed air or steam, which is filled at intervals from an external...
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Multiplex locomotive (category Steam locomotive types)
sections with a total of four engines. The middle section, with two engines with four wheels each, carried the two steam boilers, which operated at 14...
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Union Pacific Big Boy (category Steam locomotives of the United States)
the longest engine body of any reciprocating steam locomotive, longer than two 40-foot buses. They were also the heaviest reciprocating steam locomotives...
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Ipswich engine shed was an engine shed located in Ipswich, Suffolk on the Great Eastern Main Line. It was located just south of Stoke tunnel and the current...
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