Railway (GNR) No. 1 class Stirling Single is a class of steam locomotive designed for express passenger work. Designed by Patrick Stirling, they are...
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standard gauge express passenger locomotives of this type. On the GNR, Patrick Stirling built 53 examples with outside cylinders at Doncaster Works between...
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Look up Stirling in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stirling is a city and former ancient burgh in Scotland. Stirling may also refer to: Stirling's approximation...
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His father Robert Stirling was also an engineer. His brother James Stirling was also a locomotive engineer. His son Matthew Stirling was CME of the Hull...
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The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Small Boiler Class C1 is a class of steam locomotive, the first 4-4-2 or Atlantic type in Great Britain. They were designed...
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well-described on Wikipedia GJR Columbine (1840s) GWR Firefly class (1840) GNR Stirling 4-2-2 (1870) Midland Railway 115 Class (1896) Cornwall (disambiguation)...
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rebuilding of the GNR Class L1 0-8-2T locomotives with larger boilers, 4 feet 8 inches (1.42 m) in diameter, which left a number of 4-foot-2-inch (1.27 m)...
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railway operated from 1936 to 1939. The locomotive was a model of a GNR Stirling 4-2-2. Plotland developments elsewhere in Britain were bulldozed after the...
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boiler was enlarged to 4 ft 2+1⁄2 in (1.283 m) diameter, and 132 more were built down to 1896. That year, Stirling introduced the GNR Class J5, with the boiler...
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diameter over the years, e.g. from 8 ft 1 in (2,464 mm) on the GNR Stirling 4-2-2 of 1870 to 6 ft 2 in (1,880 mm) on the SR Merchant Navy Class of 1941. This...
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List of Thomas & Friends characters (redirect from Emily the Stirling Engine)
multicultural female trains in equality overhaul". Metro. Mason, Melissa (4 September 2019). "'Thomas The Tank Engine' Ends The Sausage-Fest W/ New Lady...
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advantages demonstrated by the GNR Stirling 4-2-2 and the LY&R Ramsbottom 2-4-0s. These would come with the Aspinall 7ft 3in 4-4-0s in 1891 as L&YR's own new...
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the 2-2-2 type, but more commonly singles could have any number of leading or trailing wheels. Crampton locomotive GWR 3031 Class GNR Stirling 4-2-2 Winchester...
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Railway (GNR), succeeding Patrick Stirling, with references from Samuel Waite Johnson, John Aspinall, Francis William Webb and William Dean. At the GNR, he...
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Railway and later the South Eastern Railway. Stirling was born on 2 October 1835, a son of Robert Stirling, rector of Galston, East Ayrshire. After working...
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with a two-hoop boiler barrel and thus the dome moved rearwards GNR Stirling 4-2-2 locomotive with domeless boiler Some locomotive designers in Britain...
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double-headed their express trains and so had power in hand. On the GNR, the Stirling Single engines did not allow double-heading and the new third class...
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Fairbourne Railway (category 2 ft gauge railways in Wales)
purchasing an 18 in (457 mm) gauge locomotive. This was a model of a GNR Stirling 4-2-2. A third rail was laid as far as the Golf Course. The line closed...
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The GNR Classes D2 and D3 were two classes of 51 4-4-0 steam locomotives designed by Henry Ivatt for the Great Northern Railway (GNR). They were the first...
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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) (redirect from GNR (UK))
The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York. It quickly...
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called Patrick Stirling, was Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway and designer of the 4-2-2 steam locomotive Stirling single that set...
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Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives (1948 ed.). part 4, pp 50–51. The Stirling J52 & J53 (GNR J13 & J14) 0-6-0ST Locomotives LNER Encyclopedia...
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List of Great Central Railway locomotives and rolling stock (section British Railways Mark 2 and Mark 3 coaches)
UNFINISHED "LNER Encyclopedia: The LNER Parker Class D7 (GCR Classes 2 & 2A) 4-4-0 Locomotives". www.lner.info. "News Output". GCR Rolling Stock Trust...
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designed by Patrick Stirling and built at Doncaster Works by Neilson and Co and between 1892 and 1897. The J14s were similar to the GNR Class J13 albeit...
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designed a modified version of Patrick Stirling's J5 Class of 1873. At the beginning of the 20th century, the GNR started to introduce fast goods trains...
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Lancaster, Elizabeth Keates, Marcus Brigstocke and featured a working Stirling Single (GNR 4-2-2 No.1) steam locomotive on a real rail track. In Canada, it won...
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Railway, a 12+1⁄4 in (311 mm) narrow gauge preserved railway line running for 2 miles (3 km) from Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast to Barmouth Ferry on a...
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LNER Gresley Classes A1 and A3 (redirect from GNR Class A1)
later express passenger services, initially on the Great Northern Railway (GNR), a constituent company of the London and North Eastern Railway after the...
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Retrieved 4 February 2019. "Clarinda Falls". Geographical Names Register (GNR) of NSW. Geographical Names Board of New South Wales. Retrieved 2 February...
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4027, was withdrawn from Ardsley, with no units being preserved. "The Stirling J7 (GNR Class J9) 0-6-0 Locomotives". The London & North Eastern Railway (LNER)...
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