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Chinese KF7, built by Vulcan, in the National Railway Museum in York Vulcan Foundry works plate No. 3977 of 1926 on LMS Fowler Class 3F No. 47406 in 2012. Details of the earliest locomotives are not precisely known despite an "official" list apparently concocted in the 1890s which contains a lot of guesswork and invention, with many quite fictitious locomotives, for the period before 1845.
Vulcan Iron Works was the name of several iron foundries in both England and the United States during the Industrial Revolution and, in one case, lasting until the mid-20th century. Vulcan , the Roman god of fire and smithery, was a popular namesake for these foundries.
Vulcan Foundry delivered a batch of 28 to the East Indian Railway (EIR), whose route network expanded from Calcutta towards the West. These locomotives, built according to British design practice, were used to pull express trains; they were numbered 1300 to 1327, and their works numbers were 2330 to 2357 of 1908.
The Midland Railway 1377 Class was a class of 185 0-6-0T tank locomotives.They were introduced in 1878 by Samuel W. Johnson, and were almost identical to the 1102 class of 1874; the latter having fully enclosed cabs, while the 1377 class were built without a rear to the cab and only a short cab roof, hence their nickname "half-cabs".
The 113 members of the class were built by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, England, in 1929/31, 1931 and 1935. [2] Upon partition in 1947, a total of 37 members of the class went to Pakistan. [6] The other 76 remained in India. [1]
Denham Springs is run under a Mayor-council form of government. The current mayor, Gerard Landry, has been in office since 2014, being reelected in 2018 after support from the city in his recovery efforts after the flood of 2016. [12] The Denham Springs City Council is a Unicameral council governing the City of Denham Springs.
The Indian locomotive class WCM-2 was a class of 3 kV DC, later 1.5 kV DC electric locomotives that was developed in 1956 by Vulcan Foundry and English Electric for Indian Railways. The model name stands for broad gauge (W), Direct Current (C), Mixed traffic (M) engine, 2nd generation (2). They entered service in 1957.
The TR MK class, later known as the EAR 25 class, was a class of 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge 2-8-2 steam locomotives.The eleven members of the class were built by Vulcan Foundry, in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now part of Merseyside), England, for the Tanganyika Railway (TR).