. Railway mechanical engineer . biaC k. Great Western Eight-Coupled Goods Locomotive The eight-coupled wheels are 4 ft. 6 in. diameter and incommon with the other Lancashire & Yorkshire engines, arefitted with Joy valve motion. All the four classes of eight-coupled engines are accompanied by eight-wheel tenders butthe wheels are not in bogie frames. These tenders havecapacity for 3,600 gallons of water and 5 tons of coal. Thevacuum brake is fitted to the engines and tenders. The heavy coal traffic on the Great Northern has beenconducted for some time by engines of the 0-8-0 type, thefirst desi
. Railway mechanical engineer . biaC k. Great Western Eight-Coupled Goods Locomotive The eight-coupled wheels are 4 ft. 6 in. diameter and incommon with the other Lancashire & Yorkshire engines, arefitted with Joy valve motion. All the four classes of eight-coupled engines are accompanied by eight-wheel tenders butthe wheels are not in bogie frames. These tenders havecapacity for 3,600 gallons of water and 5 tons of coal. Thevacuum brake is fitted to the engines and tenders. The heavy coal traffic on the Great Northern has beenconducted for some time by engines of the 0-8-0 type, thefirst design introduced having inside cylinders 19% in. by24 in. with flat semi-balanced valves working in steam chestson the top of the cylinders and operated by the ordinary linkmotion through rockers. The boilers have 1,438 sq. ft. ofheating surface and the area of the grate is sq. ft. Theworking steam pressure is 170 lb. The coupled wheels are4 ft. 8 in. diameter. Recently, some of these engines havebeen rebuilt and equipped with Sc
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