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A black diesel engine from the Other Railway. He is the first standard gauge diesel on Sodor. British Rail Class 08: City of Truro: GWR 3440 A famous tender engine from the Great Western Railway, In The Railway Series, he once visited the Island of Sodor in 1957 on a railtour and stayed for one night. City of Truro befriended Duck, as the two ...
Pilot engine – a locomotive attached in front of the train engine, to enable double-heading; Banking engine – a locomotive temporarily assisting a train from the rear, due to a difficult start or a sharp incline gradient; Light engine – a locomotive operating without a train behind it, for relocation or operational reasons. Occasionally ...
Diagram of Priestman oil engine from The Steam engine and gas and oil engines (1900) by John Perry Petrol–electric Weitzer railmotor, first 1903, series 1906. The earliest recorded example of the use of an internal combustion engine in a railway locomotive is the prototype designed by William Dent Priestman, which was examined by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin in 1888 who described it as ...
The Railway Series is a series of British books about a railway known as the North Western Railway, located on the fictional Island of Sodor. There are 42 books in the series, the first published in May 1945 by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry .
On the narrow-gauged New Zealand railway system, six Kb 4-8-4 locomotives were fitted with boosters, the only 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) gauge engines in the world to have such equipment. Booster engines were also fitted to tender trucks in the US and known as auxiliary locomotives.
3,600 kilowatts (4,828 hp) engine (Maxima 40CC) [21] Voith Maxima 40CC is the most powerful single-engine diesel-hydraulic locomotive ever built. XA Triplex: Virginian Railway: 700 Baldwin: 1916 Steam 2-8-8-8-4: 532 tonnes (586 short tons) 741 kilonewtons (166,600 lbf) compound — Rebuilt into separate locomotives; Maximum speed approx. 10 mph ...
A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. If a locomotive is capable of carrying a payload, it is usually referred to as a multiple unit , motor coach , railcar or power car ; the use of these self-propelled vehicles is increasingly common for passenger trains , but rare for freight ...
The small engine policy was partly the consequence of a difference in the background of senior managers. In most railway companies, the elite position was the design, construction and maintenance of locomotives. Bigger engines brought more prestige and allowed longer trains. In the Midland, the marketing department was paramount.