. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . st British locomotives with the bestof the American, it will be advisable to touch uponthe question of compound locomotives of whichthe late Mr. F. W. Webb of the was formany years a devoted exponent. In Chapter read that by compounding stationary enginesAve economized steam and fuel with a considerableincrease in general efficiency. It is a fact that compounding up to even quad-ruple expansion in marine engines has workedwonders for sea transport, and the London andNorth Western and the North Eastern railwaycompanies hoped to obta
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . st British locomotives with the bestof the American, it will be advisable to touch uponthe question of compound locomotives of whichthe late Mr. F. W. Webb of the was formany years a devoted exponent. In Chapter read that by compounding stationary enginesAve economized steam and fuel with a considerableincrease in general efficiency. It is a fact that compounding up to even quad-ruple expansion in marine engines has workedwonders for sea transport, and the London andNorth Western and the North Eastern railwaycompanies hoped to obtain the same good resultsfor locomotives. The North Eastern soon returnedto the simple type, but Mr. Webb resolutely heldon his way and constructed no less than fiveclasses of three-cylinder compound express engineswith driving wheels of from six to seven was their inherent bugbear, for the high-pressure cylinders exerted power on the reardrivers before the low-pressure cylinders couldget to work on those in front; and this defect.
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