The Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society was formed in 1948 and built a miniature railway along a drainage channel behind houses on Anthony Road, West...
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A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam.: 80 It is fuelled by...
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Steam Locomotives. Sydney: Australian Railway Historical Society. p. 239. ISBN 0-909650-27-6. Pampanga Sugar Development Corporation (PASUDECO) Steam...
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Alex (1989). A Compendium of New South Wales Steam Locomotives. Sydney: Australian Railway Historical Society, NSW Division. pp. 74–75. ISBN 0-909650-27-6...
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Ridable miniature railway (category Locomotives)
passengers using locomotives that are often models of full-sized railway locomotives (powered by diesel or petrol engines, live steam or electric motors)...
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LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman (redirect from Flying Scotsman (locomotive))
No. 4472 Flying Scotsman is a LNER Class A3 4-6-2 "Pacific" steam locomotive built in 1923 for the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at Doncaster...
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A Steam Train Passes is a 1974 Australian short film set in the 1940s, featuring the construction and operation of C38 class locomotive 3801. The opening...
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Eveleigh (redirect from Everleigh, Sydney)
manufacturing steam locomotives. By this time more than 3000 people were employed at the site. Many workers lived in the area, but many lived in other suburbs...
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Rail transport modelling (section Live steam)
scale live steam train running on the Finnish Railway Museum's 7.25-inch (18.4 cm) gauge track A small 5-inch (13 cm) gauge live steam locomotive at the...
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railway line. Sydney Live Steam Locomotive Society West Ryde, NSW The Model Railroad Club of Toronto Toronto, ON Arizona Model Railroading Society, Phoenix...
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class Electric Locomotives". Australian Railway History. pp. 198–208. NSW 85 Class Electric Locomotive 8501 Sydney Electric Train Society "Goninan's (sic)...
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4-4-0 (redirect from 4-4-0 locomotive)
4-4-0, in the Whyte notation, denotes a steam locomotive with a wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles (usually in a leading bogie), four...
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4-6-2 (redirect from Pacific (locomotive))
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-6-2 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles, six...
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Wales Steam Locomotives. Sydney: Australian Railway Historical Society, NSW Division. pp. 41–45. ISBN 0-909650-27-6. Oberg, Leon (1984). Locomotives of Australia...
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Trams in Australia (section Sydney)
Rail Baldwin Locomotive Works Sydney – A (steam motor) (Baldwin type) Sydney – D1 (self-contained steam car) (steam unit) Beyer, Peacock Sydney – Experimental...
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Hunter Valley Steamfest (redirect from Hunter Valley Steam Trains)
Valley Steamfest is one of the major events in the New South Wales steam locomotive season and also one of the major events held in Maitland, in the Hunter...
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Peterborough. A steam locomotive last deployed by the South Australian Railways as a shunter at Peterborough, Y82, was never transferred to the society. It was...
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several steam cars and in 1858 he built the second. Instead of looking like a steam car it resembled a small locomotive. It consisted of a steam engine...
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2-4-0 (category 2-4-0 locomotives)
Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-4-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, four powered...
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4-6-4 (category 4-6-4 locomotives)
support at the rear of the locomotive. In general, the available tractive effort differed little from that of the 4-6-2, but the steam-raising ability was increased...
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overseas enthusiast visitors. Steam Tram Motor 103A Built in 1891 by Baldwin Locomotive Works, USA. Began service on Sydney tramway system on arrival in...
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Rogans Hill railway line (redirect from Rogans Hill railway line, Sydney)
Rogans Hill railway line was a short-lived railway line in the north-western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. A steam tramway opened between Parramatta and...
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History of trams (section Steam)
trams were powered by steam. Generally, there were two types of steam tram. The first and most common had a small steam locomotive (called a tram engine...
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restoration. No.100 1891 Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadelphia. Makers number 11885. 11-inch cylinders, former Sydney Steam Motor. Imported 1910 and used...
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Historical Society Bulletin, February, 1965 pp21-32 The Inauguration of Sydney's Steam Tramways Wylie, R.F. Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin...
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Hudswell Clarke (category Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom)
contract for their production once the design work had been done. As steam locomotive builders, like many of the smaller builders they specialised in small...
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Railway locomotives and collection – includes seven steam locomotives from a pioneering 1874 NZR F class to the iconic NZR K class steam locomotive, smaller...
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and Rec Club provides bowls. The Lake Macquarie Live Steam Locomotive Society has been running model steam trains in Edgeworth since 1969. Australian Bureau...
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ISBN 0-9538763-5-7. Industrial Locomotives 1979: including preserved and minor railway locomotives. Industrial Railway Society. 1979. ISBN 0-901096-38-5....
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train with two steam locomotives crashes into another westbound freight that should have waited in a siding for it. The lead locomotive falls off a bridge;...
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