An old engraving of a Thomas Crampton designed locomotive, UK It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway. He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive. Crampton realised that the broad-gauge locomotives of the Great Western Railway were better than the standard gauge and in 1843 Crampton designed a loco with the driving wheel placed behind the firebox. One of these, ‘Folkstone’, was exhibited at The Great Exhibition of 1851
An old engraving of a Thomas Crampton designed locomotive, UK It is from a Victorian mechanical engineering book of the 1880s. Thomas Russell Crampton (1816–1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway. He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive but had many interests including the electric telegraph and the Channel Tunnel for which he designed a boring machine. Crampton worked as assistant to Marc Brunel and on joining the GWR in 1839, then Daniel Gooch. Crampton realised that the broad-gauge locomotives of the GWR were better than the standard gauge and in 1843 Crampton took out a patent for a new design of locomotive, with the driving wheel placed behind the firebox. In 1845, Crampton received his first order for a locomotive built to his patent. One of the locomotives was tested in 1847 on the London and North Western Railway, who then built a ‘Crampton Patent’ locomotive at Crewe. Another two locomotives were bought by the LNWR, including a 6-2-0 Liverpool built by Bury, Curtis and Kennedy in 1848 with 8 feet ( m) diameter driving wheels. By 1851, Crampton was working for the South Eastern Railway (SER). In that year, ten new Crampton locomotives were built, and one of these, ‘Folkstone’ was exhibited at The Great Exhibition that year.
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