. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heir Swindon Works twenty express pas-senger locomotives of the four-cylinder, 4-6-0 type to beknown as the King class, named after the Kings ofEngland, the first completed engine being appropriatelynamed after the reigning monarch. The new locomotives are being built to designs by C. I!.Collett, O. B. E., chief mechanical engineer of the rail-way, and are the most powerful express passenger loco-motives in Great Britain, their tractive effort 40,300 lb. between the frames, the valves for the
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . heir Swindon Works twenty express pas-senger locomotives of the four-cylinder, 4-6-0 type to beknown as the King class, named after the Kings ofEngland, the first completed engine being appropriatelynamed after the reigning monarch. The new locomotives are being built to designs by C. I!.Collett, O. B. E., chief mechanical engineer of the rail-way, and are the most powerful express passenger loco-motives in Great Britain, their tractive effort 40,300 lb. between the frames, the valves for the outside cylindersbeing operated by rocking levers from the inside inside connecting rods have forked big ends fittedwith gib and cotter, but the outside rods have solid bushedends. The boiler carries a working pressure of 250 square inch, and is built with conical barrel and Bel-paire firebox, without a dome. The steam is taken froman open pipe at the highest point over the firebox andthe safety valve is mounted on the barrel. In constructing the inside firebox, copper stayed en-. Four Cylinder 4-6-0 Type Locomotive of the Great Western Railway of England at 85 per cent of the boiler pressure, being considerablyhigher than that of any other in that country. It is interesting to note that the King George V is tobe sent to America as representing the latest and largestdevelopment in British locomotive practive. It will beshown in connection with the Centenary Exhibition of theBaltimore & Ohio Railroad at Baltimore, Maryland, Sep-tember 24th to October 8th. It will be accompanied bythe reconstructed North Star which was exhibited atthe British Empire Exhibition at Wembley. Distribution of the adhesion weight is effected by anequalizing arrangement on the six coupled wheels, thetotal being lbs. whilst the weight on the truckis 48,160 lbs. The total weight of the engine in workingorder, without the tender being 199,360 lbs. The tenderis of the standard Grea
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