. The ways of our railways . EU HT-\VHEELS-COUPLED SIBUKBW TANK KNGINE, G. N. THE MECHANISM OF MOTIVE-POWER. 89 train loads has put an end to the reign of the big single-wheelers which made the names of Goochand Stirling so famous in our earlier locomotivehistory. Most of the British express passenger enginesof modern design have two pairs of coupled driving-wheels with a four-wheeled bogie or swivellingtruck at the leading end to assist them in going roundcurves at a high rate of speed. In some cases thereis also a small pair of trailing wheels under theback end of the firebox, this arran
. The ways of our railways . EU HT-\VHEELS-COUPLED SIBUKBW TANK KNGINE, G. N. THE MECHANISM OF MOTIVE-POWER. 89 train loads has put an end to the reign of the big single-wheelers which made the names of Goochand Stirling so famous in our earlier locomotivehistory. Most of the British express passenger enginesof modern design have two pairs of coupled driving-wheels with a four-wheeled bogie or swivellingtruck at the leading end to assist them in going roundcurves at a high rate of speed. In some cases thereis also a small pair of trailing wheels under theback end of the firebox, this arrangement constitutingwhat is generally known as the Atlantic typefirst introduced into this country by Mr. Ivatt, of theGreat Northern, in 1898. Locomotives having six-coupled driving-wheels were adopted some years agoon the North-Eastern Railway for hauling the heavyEast Coast Express traffic ; but it was found that,while this arrangement admits of an augmentationof the efficacy of the adhesive weight by the exten-sion of the area of contact between the drivers and the rails, i
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