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The Schmidt-Henschel boiler was replaced with a tapered boiler, with a drumhead smokebox, designated type 2. [1] The type 2 boiler had a tube surface of 1,669 square feet, formed by tubes 2 + 1 ⁄ 8 inches (54 mm) in diameter and 14 ft 3 in (4.34 m) long. [2] It was fitted with a 28-row superheater with 360 square feet (33 m 2) of heating ...
Once the boiler is producing steam, the exit from the smokebox into the main chimney is closed and the exhaust gases instead flow through the feedwater heater and exit via the secondary chimney located towards the rear of the locomotive. Water fed into the boiler is now pre-heated in the feedwater heater and enters the boiler at higher than ...
Crosti 9F 92021 at Wellingborough shed in 1959, showing the unique layout on the right hand side of the loco. British Railways Standard Class 9F steam locomotives Nos 92020-9 were experimentally built with Franco-Crosti boilers, thus forming a subclass. All ten were built in 1955 at Crewe Works.
Pages in category "Locomotive boilers" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
42884 at Carlisle in 1960. Note the Fowler tender which is narrower than the locomotive. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Hughes Crab or Horwich Mogul is a class of mixed-traffic 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1926 and 1932. [2]
When steam locomotives began to be retired from passenger runs, Gold's company, now known as the Vapor Car Heating Company, developed a compact water-tube boiler that could be fitted into the rear of a diesel locomotive's engine room. Known as the Vapor-Clarkson steam generator, it and its competitors (notably the unit built by Elesco) remained ...