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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.
Vulcan Works, Thornton Road, Bradford, ca 1888, founded by Robinson Thwaites, was one of several Victorian era iron mills sharing the name; like many others, it made a wide variety of machinery including mining equipment and locomotives. Vulcan Iron Works was the name of several iron foundries in both England and the United States during the ...
Vulcan produced its first diesel locomotives in the 1920s; a total of 54 diesel-electric switcher units (each weighing 25 short tons (23 t) or more) came out of Vulcan's shops between 1938 and 1954. Its largest unit was a 70-short-ton (64 t) B-B unit built for Carnegie Steel Company in 1944.
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 It was withdrawn in 1843 but was rebuilt as a 2-2-2T tank locomotive and returned to service in 1846, running in this form until 1868.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 EAR 31 class was a class of oil-burning 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 + 3 ⁄ 8 in) gauge 2-8-4 steam locomotives. The 46 members of the class were built in 1955 by Vulcan Foundry, in Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now part of Merseyside), England, for the East African Railways (EAR). They were a lighter, branch-line version of the EAR 30 class, and ...
The Class KF (聯盟型, 'Confederation class', re-designated "ㄎㄈ" or "KF") was a 4-8-4 mainline passenger steam locomotive type built in the United Kingdom by the Vulcan Foundry for the railways of China. Between 1935 and 1936, 24 locomotives were built for the Guangzhou–Hankou Railway, designated as the 600 series. [1]
The class originates in the purchase of three saddle tank locomotives ordered from Vulcan Foundry in 1886. They were fitted with an 8-foot-10-inch (2.69 m) long, 3-foot-0-inch (914 mm) diameter boiler with a pressure of 140 lbf/in 2 (965 kPa) powering two outside 13-by-18-inch (330 mm × 457 mm) cylinders connected to 3-foot-0-inch (914 mm) driving wheels.