. Cassier's magazine . design includes the provision ofa Schmidt superheater, thus accord-ing with the tendency of Brightonlocomotive practice, and the steampressure is only 160 pounds persquare inch. In the case of the L. & N. W. , Mr. Bowen Cooke has notfitted the first engine with a super-heater, but others of the series are to be equipped with the Schmidt ap-paratus, and Mr. Robinson is alsoemploying this superheater for hisengines. Of late years many railways haveintroduced the 0-6-4 tank engine type,the trailing bogie being adopted forthe purpose of supporting a largebunker; but,
. Cassier's magazine . design includes the provision ofa Schmidt superheater, thus accord-ing with the tendency of Brightonlocomotive practice, and the steampressure is only 160 pounds persquare inch. In the case of the L. & N. W. , Mr. Bowen Cooke has notfitted the first engine with a super-heater, but others of the series are to be equipped with the Schmidt ap-paratus, and Mr. Robinson is alsoemploying this superheater for hisengines. Of late years many railways haveintroduced the 0-6-4 tank engine type,the trailing bogie being adopted forthe purpose of supporting a largebunker; but, although the type was,it is believed, employed by an Irishrailway—the Great Southern & West-ern Railway—upwards of thirty yearsago, the locomotive shown in is interesting as being the onlymodern example employed in Ire-land for the standard (5-foot 3-inch)gauge. They have been constructed for theGreat Northern Railway of Irelandby Messrs. Beyer, Peacock & Co.,Ltd., of Manchester, to the designs. FIG. 19. ENGINE FOR THE INDIAN STATE RAILWAYS. VULCAN FOUNDRY COMPANY REMARKABLE LOCOMOTIVES OF 1910 117 ■ ~i 1 v ■ ■ ■ •!< ini ■ of t ifi 1 11 in| R - 1 i —.r^Tiir . 1 M S M V 0-^ kzisisScfc^ y -- •**&• :*i^^fe:t5I FIG. 20. LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE MADRAS & SOUTHERN MAHRATTA RAILWAY, INDIA. & CO., LTD., DARLINGTON R. STEPHENSON of Mr. Charles Clifford, the locomo-tive superintendent of the correspond, as regards mainfeatures, with the standard practiceof the railway, and, as will be seen,there are features of resemblance tothe locomotives of the English GreatNorthern Railway. Eight-coupled locomotives are nowso general for heavy freight servicethat examples of interesting practiceare far too numerous to permit ofreference to more than two or threeof them. The engine shown in Fig. 19 is oneof a series constructed by the VulcanFoundry Company, of Newton-le-Willows, for the North Western divi- sion of the Indian State general features
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