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2. Midland Railway 1322 Class - Wikipedia

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   Nos 202A and 1429A were withdrawn before the Midland's 1907 renumbering scheme, leaving the remainder to become 1500–1507. By 1928, all but 1506 had been withdrawn, and in 1930 it was renumbered 1509 to make room for the ex-S&DJR Fox, Walker 0-6-0ST locomotives taken into LMS stock that year. [1]

3. Midland Railway 2601 Class - Wikipedia

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   Between 1887 and 1900, Johnson had no fewer than 95 single locomotives built by the railway's own workshops in Derby, which differed slightly in structural details.They were used on high-quality express trains and reached speeds of up to 90 mph (140 km/h). 2601 Princess of Wales, the first of the class, was exhibited at the Paris Exposition of 1900 and awarded the Grand Prix.

4. Slack action - Wikipedia

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   In railroading, slack action is the amount of free movement of one car before it transmits its motion to an adjoining coupled car. This free movement results from the fact that in railroad practice cars are loosely coupled, and the coupling is often combined with a shock-absorbing device, a "draft gear", which, under stress, substantially increases the free movement as the train is started or ...

5. Backlash (engineering) - Wikipedia

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   In mechanical engineering, backlash, sometimes called lash, play, or slop, is a clearance or lost motion in a mechanism caused by gaps between the parts. It can be defined as "the maximum distance or angle through which any part of a mechanical system may be moved in one direction without applying appreciable force or motion to the next part in mechanical sequence."

6. Midland Railway 1102 Class - Wikipedia

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   The Midland Railway 1102 Class was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives. Twenty-five were built by Neilson and Company in 1874–75 (Nos. 1102–1126) and fifteen by Vulcan Foundry in 1875–76 (Nos. 1127–1141). They were very similar to the subsequent 1377 Class. The Midland 1907 numbers were 1620–1659.

7. Midland Railway 2511 Class - Wikipedia

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   The Midland Railway 2511 Class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotives built by the Schenectady Locomotive Works in the United States, as a supplemental order to the 2501 Class built by Baldwin that same year. As with that class, the Midland had turned to American locomotive builders, as their own Derby Works had reached capacity, and was unable ...