. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . en forward ofthe motion plate. Both pairs of bogiewheels consequently have to run beneaththe frame plates on sharp curves, and themain frame plates are suitably shaped toallow lor this. The bogie has a ti Great Central water pick-up apparatus iscarried. Mr. J. (i. Robinson, the Great CentralRailway Chief Mechanical Engineer,served his apprenticeship on the GreatWestern Railway, but had experience inIreland before going nl post at Gorton. To-day he is generally consid-ered one of the mos
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . en forward ofthe motion plate. Both pairs of bogiewheels consequently have to run beneaththe frame plates on sharp curves, and themain frame plates are suitably shaped toallow lor this. The bogie has a ti Great Central water pick-up apparatus iscarried. Mr. J. (i. Robinson, the Great CentralRailway Chief Mechanical Engineer,served his apprenticeship on the GreatWestern Railway, but had experience inIreland before going nl post at Gorton. To-day he is generally consid-ered one of the most progressive andsuccessful locomotive in Euro|>e and his name is closely associated withthe superheater he invented and withwhich the locomotive illustrated is Pulverized is claimed that the economy securedby using pulverized fuel in stationaryboilers instead of hand-nred coal is notso great, in comparison, as that obtainedby its use in locomotives. This is due tothe fact that stationary plants can be fittedwith the best mechanical stokers. Thereis an advantage of from two to three per. 4--I-0 TYPE ok LOCOMOTIVE, GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY OF ENGLAND Great Central Railway, and they aregreatly admired and appreciated by thetraveling public. American visitors toEngland who travel to Ilelmdon station,Great Central Railway, en route to Sul-grave, the ancestral home of the Wash-ington, should not fail to keep a lookoutfor these very line machines at Bthe Manchester service. Diameter of the driving-wheels of theButler-Henderson is 6 ft. 9 in.; cylin-ders are 20 in. diameter; stroke 26 in.,distribution of steam is by means of 10in. diam. piston valves arranged for in-side steam admission. These valves areplaced over the cylinders and are drivenby Stephenson link motion through rock-ing shafts. The piston valves are of theRobinson type, and are fitted with pres-sure release rings. The boiler has amaximum diameter of 5 ft. 3 in. and thebarrel is 12 ft. 3 in. long: the firebox is
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