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    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...
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    horizontal or vertical. This type of boiler was used on virtually all steam locomotives in the horizontal "locomotive" form. This has a cylindrical barrel...
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    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...
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  • Model Boilers, pp. 60–61. Milton, Marine Steam Boilers, pp. 138–141. "German high-pressure locomotives". Loco Locomotive gallery. Harris, Model Boilers, pp...
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    locomotive is a type of compound articulated steam locomotive, invented by the Swiss engineer Anatole Mallet (1837–1919). The front of the locomotive...
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  • Thumbnail for Flued boiler
    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...
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    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...
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    retained the older round-topped boiler instead. A few American locomotives used saddle tanks that only covered the boiler barrel, forward of the firebox...
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    Bundesbahn Museum, Nuremberg. Long Boiler locomotive 6-2-0 for Crampton locomotives in the USA "London & North Western Railway locomotives: Introduction & pre-Ramsbottom"...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Haycock boiler
    A haycock boiler is an early form of steam locomotive boiler with a prominently raised firebox of "Gothic arch", "haystack", or "coppernob" shape. The...
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    with the then current form of locomotive boiler, Hornet with a Yarrow boiler for comparison. The first Yarrow boilers were intended for small destroyers...
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    less covering between locomotive to locomotive. The front half of the locomotive, in front of the engine unit, contained the boiler. In smaller examples...
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    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...
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    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...
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    fireless locomotive, where separately-generated steam is transferred to a receiver (tank) on the locomotive. The steam generator or steam boiler is an integral...
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  • Thumbnail for Water-tube boiler
    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...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Cambrian Railways 4-4-0 locomotives
    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...
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  • Thumbnail for List of boiler explosions
    This is a list of steam boiler explosions such as railway locomotive, marine transport (military and civilian), and stationary power: List of boiling liquid...
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    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 ...
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  • (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...
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    the boiler and cab unit moved inward, reducing the centrifugal force, whereas the Mallet's forward articulated unit moved out as the locomotive rounded...
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    Locomotion No. 1 (category Railway boiler explosions)
    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for Three-drum boiler
    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...
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    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...
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    trains of the trials contest. Rocket uses a multi-tubular boiler design. Previous locomotive boilers consisted of a single pipe surrounded by water (though...
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  • Thumbnail for Franco-Crosti boiler
    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...
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