Phil
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Post by Phil on Feb 24, 2006 11:38:55 GMT
Apart from the location (where?) who else knows about the unique features of this photo? What, and why? All to be revealed tomorrow....  |
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DWS
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Post by DWS on Feb 24, 2006 14:34:10 GMT
The Locomotive is Fowler's Ghost on a trial run on the unfinished Metropolitan Railway between King's Cross and Edgware Road 1861.
The locomotive was built by Robert Stephenson & Co of Newcastle in late 1860, it was a so called fireless locomotive.
It had a small firebox, with a large mass of firebrick in a chamber in the boiler barrel.
The idea was to run the locomotive in the ordinary way on open sections of the line, getting the firebricks really hot, and then damp down the fire in the covered section, the firebricks acting as a heat reservoir.
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Phil
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Post by Phil on Feb 24, 2006 15:09:35 GMT
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Post by stanmorek on Feb 24, 2006 23:41:27 GMT
A Benjamin Baker paper in the 1884-85 Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers discusses John Fowler's proposal of a locomotive that burns no fuel.
The original intention was to work the Metropolitan by these hot water locomotives with no special provision for ventilation though Fowler stilled maintained that ordinary locomotives could be run. With the subequent running of coal burning locomotives the glass was removed from the side lights at Gower Street and Baker Street. Further improvements were opening up of portions of the covered way and blow holes between Edgeware Road and Kings Cross.
From this experience, on laying the MDR extension, Fowler arranged wherever possible for stations to be in the open with a cutting at each end and intermediate cuttings between stations.
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