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Locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, latterly part of the English Electric group. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vulcan Foundry locomotives . Pages in category "Vulcan Foundry locomotives"
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.
Built by the Vulcan Foundry. Named after the insect, the locust. Mogul (1862–1872) Built by Kitson & Co, it was later altered to a 2-4-0 tender locomotive. A mogul was the leader of the Mughals. Mosquito (1862–1877) Built by the Vulcan Foundry. Named after the insect, the mosquito. Myrtle (1864–1873) Built at Swindon, it ran as a 2-4-0 ...
The 2-4-0 type tender locomotives were ordered by the GIPR to operate on the first railway line in India. The Vulcan Foundry rotation numbers of these were from 324-331, while the working numbers were 680-687. [1] These locomotives had a water capacity of 800 gallons (3028.33 Litres), and a tender capacity of 600 gallons (2271.25 Litres).
EE/Vulcan EE 2863 VF D579 1961 Co-Co Loughborough [130] 2001–7861 [131] BR D9002 Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry [Note 74] Class 55: EE/Vulcan EE 2907 VF D559 1961 Co-Co York [132] 1987–7002 BR 09017 Class 09: Horwich Works — 1961 0-6-0 York [9] Plant BR D1023 Western Fusilier: Class 52: BR Swindon — 1963 C-C: Didcot [133] 1978 ...
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).
Vulcan (Tayleur 51; 1837–1868) This locomotive was the first to run on the Great Western Railway when it was tested on 28 December 1837 from its shed at West Drayton . It was withdrawn in 1843 but was rebuilt as a 2-2-2T tank locomotive and returned to service in 1846, running in this form until 1868.
The Indian locomotive class WCG-1 (originally classified as EF/1) is a class of 1.5 kV DC freight-hauling electric locomotives that were developed in the late 1920s by Vulcan Foundry and Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works (SLM) for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. A total of 41 WCG-1 locomotives were built in England between 1928 and 1929.