INDEX.
Reading edition
[N.B.—The letters B.G. denote a Broad-Gauge locomotive.]
A
Adams, Bridges, combination engines and carriages, 130, 133
Adams, Bridges, radial axle-boxes, 209
Adams, Bridges, system of intermediate driving shafts, 133
Adams, Bridges, spring tyres, 211
Adams, W., engines for the N.L. Ry., 226
Adams, W., engines for the L. & S.W. Ry., 272
“Æolus,” B.G., 71
“Agenoria,” 27
“Agilis,” with double flanged wheels, 86
“Ajax,” B.G., 73, 75
“Albion” on the “Cambrian system”, 125
Allan claims to have introduced “back-coupled” engines, 97;
link motion, 97
American engines for the Birmingham & Gloucester Railway, 87
“Apollo,” B.G., 72
“Areo-steam” engines, 234
“Ariel,” B.G., 75
“Armstrong” class, G.W.R., 297
Aspinall, J. A. F., locomotives for the Lancashire &
Yorkshire Railway, 280
Aston, W., engines for the Cambrian Railways, 264
“Atlas,” B.G., 75
“Atlas,” M. & S.R., 110
B
“Bacchus,” B.G., 72
Back-coupled engines by Allan, 97
Balanced locomotives, 84
Beattie’s engines, 162, 169
(coal-burning), 185, 194, 203, 207, 226, 231, 240
Belfast & Northern Counties Railway engines, 316
Beyer’s single iron plate frames, 97
Beyer’s “Atlas,” for the M. & S.R., 110
Billinton, R. J., engines for L.B. & S.C.R., 260
Birmingham & Gloucester Ry., American engines on, 87
Birmingham & Gloucester Ry., McConnell’s engine for, 102
“Black Prince,” L. & N.W.R., 247
Blackett, Hedley, and Hackworth construct an engine, 10
Blenkinsopp’s, J., engine, 5
“Blucher”, 14
“Boat engines,” B.G., 73
Bodmer’s reciprocating engines, 100
Bogie tenders, 241, 277, 310
Bogie engines (early), 56, 173
Braithwaite & Ericsson’s “Novelty”, 30
Braithwaite & Ericsson’s “William the IV.” and “Queen Adelaide”, 46
Bristol & Exeter Ry. locomotives, B.G., 173
Broad-gauge engines (see G.W. & Bristol & Exeter Railways)
“Brougham,” S. & D.R., 206
Brunel, I. K., and broad-guage locomotives, 67, 75;
Vale of Neath Ry., 39
(See also Great Western Railway engines)
Brunton’s “leg-propelled” engine, 7
“Bull Dog,” G.W.R., 302
Burnett’s tanks for the M. & S.J.W.R., 233
Bury, Edward, inventor of the inside cylinder locomotive, 40
Bury, his first “Liverpool”, 40
Bury, Authentic list of his first engines, 43
Bury, Contractor to the London & Birmingham Ry., 82
Bury, Engines on the Furness Ry., 123, 179
Bury, Extract from the Minute books of the L. & M.R.
relating to the “Liverpool”, 42
Bury, “Liver,” for the L. & M.R., 52
Bury, “Meteor,” N. & C.R., 62
C
Cambrian locomotive system, 125
Caledonian Ry.:—Engine “No. 15,” 152;
8ft. 2in. “single,” 207;
modern, 285 to 292
“Caledonian,” L. & M.R., 54
Canterbury & Whitstable Railway, 44
Cambrian Railways engines, 209, 264
“Canute,” an early coal-burning engine, 186
Chapman’s chain locomotive, 6
“Charles Dickens,” L. & N.W.R., 239
Clark’s smoke-consuming engines, 191
Coal-burning locomotives, 64;
Chanter’s system, 84;
Dewrance’s, 102;
London & North Western, 167;
Beattie, 185;
Yorston, 188;
Cudworth, 189;
Yarrow, 190;
Clark, 191;
Wilson, 191;
Lee and Jacques, 192;
Sinclair, 192;
Douglas or Frodsham, 192
Coey, R., engines for the G.S. & W.R., 319
Cork & Muskerry Light Railway, 319
Combined engines and carriages, 130, 136, 224
“Comet,” Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, 60
Compound locomotives, 169, 242, 249, 316
Compressed air locomotive, 169
“Cornwall,” 119
Cork & Bandon Ry., Adams’ light engines on, 140
“Caithness,” L. & N.W.R., 205
Cowan, W., goods engine, 225
Cowlairs incline, 98;
rope traction on, 100
Crampton, T. R., locomotives, 75;
on the 10ft.-wheel. B.G., 112, 145, 159, 203
Crewe Works erected, 97
Cudworth, I., coal-burning engines, 189
Cudworth, coal-burning engines, 189
“Cycloped” horse locomotive, 38
Cylinder valves, fitted to Roberts’s “Experiment”, 57
D
Davis & Metcalfe’s exhaust steam injector, 302
Dean, W., locomotives for the Great Western Ry., 294
“Devonshire” class, G.W.R., 297
Disc wheels, 74, 75
Dodd’s engines for the Monkland and Kirkintilloch Ry., 50
Douglas, coal-burning engine, 192
Drummond, D., engines for the L. & S.W.R., 276
Drummond, D., engines for the Caledonian Ry., 288
“Dunalastair,” Cal. Ry., 285
Dundee & Newtyle Ry. engines, 57
“Duplex,” a two-boiler engine, 158
E
Eastern Counties Ry., Hancock’s locomotive for, 86;
“Essex,” 111;
compressed air engine, 169;
coal-burning, 192;
Sinclair’s engines, 195;
(See also, G.E.R.)
“Eclipse,” Dr. Church’s tank engine, 62
Eight-wheels-coupled engines, early, 195
Eight-wheels-coupled engines, Webb’s, 246
Eight-wheel rolling stock, the first, 46
“Enfield,” combined engine and carriage, 133
England’s “Little England” locomotives, 141
“Essex,” E.C.R., 111
Exhaust steam blast (see Hackworth)
Exhaust steam injector (Davies & Metcalfe’s patent), 302
“Experiment” engine for the L. & M.R., 56
“Experiment,” L. & N.W.R., 243
F
“Fairfield” combined engine and carriage, B.G., 131, 133
Fairlie’s “double-bogie” engines, 224, 234
Festiniog Railway, Fairlie’s engines on, 223
Fell’s steep gradient engines, 219
Fletcher’s 4-wheel tank engine, 201
“Folkestone,” a Crampton engine for the S.E.R., 159
Four-cylinder engines, L. & N.W. Railway, 248
Four-cylinder engines, S.W.R., 276
Fowler, Sir J., “hot-brick” engine, 200, 217
French locomotive on the Eastern Counties Ry., 195, 207
Furness Ry. engines, 123, 179, 236, 312
“Fury” and “Firefly” classes, G.W.R., B.G., 90
G
Galloway’s incline climbing experiments, 109
Gauge locomotive experiments, 105
Geared-up engines, B.G., 77, 79, 147
Giffard’s injector, 197
“Gladstone” class, L.B. & S.C. Railway, 252
Glasgow & South Western Ry. locomotives, 241
“Globe,” the first engine with a steam dome, 47
“Goliath,” Newcastle & Carlisle Railway, 61
Gooch, Daniel (see G.W.R.)
Gooch, J. V., engines by, 161, 162
Grand Junction Ry., opening, 64
Grand Junction Ry. early locomotives, 64
“Grasshopper,” B.G., 73
Gray’s expansion gear, 93
“Great Britain,” M’Connell’s, 102
“Greater Britain,” L. & N.W.R., 245
Great Central Ry., Pollitt’s engines for, 316
Great Eastern Ry., locomotives
(see also Eastern Counties Ry.), 206, 217, 249, 255 to 259
Great Northern Railway engine, “215”, 171
Great Northern Ry. engines, 171, 216, 236, 303 to 309
Great North of Scotland Ry. engines, 225, 309 to 311
Great Northern (Ireland) Ry. engine, 318
Great Southern & Western Ry., 319
“Great Western,” B.G., 106
Great Western Ry. locomotives, the original, 66;
first trial of, 69;
table of dimensions, 70;
the 10ft. wheel engines, 73, 76;
geared-up engines, 77, 79;
table of mileage of original engines, 81;
Gooch’s first engines, 90;
first engine built at Swindon, 105;
“Great Western,” 106;
trial trips, 107, 108;
Galloway’s engine, 109;
“Iron Duke,” 113;
first narrow-gauge engines, 182;
“Robin Hood,” 184;
Metropolitan Ry., engines for, 213;
Dean’s designs, 294 to 303;
“Grosvenor,” L.B. & S.C.R., 242
H
Hackworth, Timothy, first engine, 10
Hackworth, Timothy, and the Stockton and Darlington Ry.
locomotives, 21
Hackworth, Timothy, “Royal George,” 24
Hackworth, Timothy, “Sanspareil,” 32
Hackworth, Timothy, and the exhaust steam blast, 24;
the secret stolen at Rainhill, 33
Hackworth, Timothy, “Globe” for the S. & D.R., 47
Hackworth, Timothy, “Majestic” and Wilberforce “classes”
for the S. & D.R., 52, 53
Hackworth, Timothy, trunk or ram engine, 61;
“Arrow,” 61
Hackworth, Timothy, builds “Jenny Linds,” 104
Hackworth, Timothy, “Sanspareil 2,” 149;
challenge to R. Stephenson concerning, 150
Harrison’s patent engines, B.G., 76
“Harvey Combe” ballast engine, 60
Hancock’s engine for the Eastern Counties Ry., 86
Haigh Foundry engines, B.G., 79
“Hawthorn,” 157
Hawthorne’s engines, 52, 59, 156
Hedley (see Blackett), 10
Highland Railway locomotives, 316
Historical locomotives sold by auction, 51
Holden, J., liquid fuel locomotives, 254, 316
Holden, J., engines for the G.E.R., 253
Holmes, M., engines for the N.B.R., 253, 277
“Hot-brick” locomotive, Fowler’s, for Met. Ry., 200, 217
Howe and the “link” motion, 96;
3-cylinder engine, 105
“Hundred miles an hour!” B.G., 79
Hurricane 10ft. wheel engine, B.G., 76, 79
I
Injector, Gilford’s invention of, 197
“Iron Duke” B.G., 113
Inside cylinder locomotive, “Liverpool,” the first, 40
Inside cylinder locomotive—extract from the minute books
of the L. & M.R. relating to same, 42
“Inspector,” L.B. & S.C.R., 261
International Exhibition, 1851, locomotives at, 156
“Invicta,” Canterbury & Whitstable Ry., 44
Ivatt, H. A., engines for the G.N.R., 303 to 309
J
“Jason,” B.G., Gooch’s first goods engine, 92
James and the link motion, 96
“Jenny Lind” engines, 104, 115
“Jenny Sharps,” 116
“Jinks’s Babies,” 234
Johnson, S. W., engines for the Midland Ry., 250
K
Kirtley, W., engines for the L.C. & D.R., 262
Kendall, W., 3-cylinder engine, 231
Kennedy’s, James, testimony regarding the first
inside cylinder locomotive, 42
L
“Lablache,” 124
“Lambro,” 95
Lancashire & Yorkshire Ry. engines, 234, 280
L.B. & S.C.R. locomotives, 240, 242, 252, 260
L.C. & D.R. locomotives, 203, 262
“Light locomotives,” Samuels’ 130;
Adams’, 139;
England’s, 141
Liquid fuel locomotives, 253, 285
“Little Wonder,” Festiniog Ry., 224
“Little England”, 141
“Little Wonder,” Samuels’ combined engine and carriage, 130
“Liverpool,” Crampton’s engine for the L. & N.W.R., 145
“Link” Motion, 96; Allan’s 97
“Liver,” Bury’s, for L. & M.R., 52
“Liverpool,” the first engine with inside cylinders
and crank axles, 40
“Liverpool,” description of, 44
Liverpool & Manchester Ry.,
early locomotives on, 45, 46, 50, 52, 85
Liverpool & Manchester Ry., opening of, 46
Liverpool & Manchester Ry.,
8-wheel passenger carriage at opening, 46
Liverpool & Manchester Ry., Rainhill contest, 28;
the competitors, 30
“Locomotion,” S. & D.R., 20
London & Birmingham Ry., opening, 82;
Bury’s engines for, 82
London, Brighton & S.C.R., Bodmer’s engine on, 101
“Long boiler” engines, 94, 103, 111, 122, 137
London, Brighton & S.C. Ry., “Jenny Linds”, 116
“London,” Crampton’s engine for the L. & N.W.R., 113
“Lord of the Isles,” B.G., 115
L. & S.W.R. locomotives, 162, 169, 187, 194, 202,
207, 226, 231, 240, 272
L. & N.W.R. locomotives, 163, 122, 153, 155, 205,
238, 239, 243, 281
(See also London & Birmingham Ry.)
M
“Magnet,” S. & D.R., 54
“Majestic” class, S. & D.R., 52
Malcolm, B., engines for the Belfast & Northern Counties Ry., 316
Manson, engines for the G.N. of S. Ry., 309
“Mars,” B.G., 73
McConnell’s “Great Britain,” 102;
counterbalancing experiments, 122;
“most powerful N.G. engine,” 122;
“Mac’s Mangle,” 153;
“Bloomer’s,” 155;
“300,” 163;
“Caithness,” 205
McIntosh, J. F., locomotives for the Caledonian Ry., 286
Metropolitan Ry., hot-brick engine for, 200;
B.G. engines on, 213;
first engines, 214
“Meteor,” L. & S.W.R., 203
“Meteor,” Bury’s, for the N. & C. Ry., 62
Metallic piston packing, first used, 51
“Michael Longridge,” for the S. & D. Ry., 64
Midland Ry., trials of “Jenny Sharps”
and “Jenny Linds” on, 116 to 118
Midland Ry., Johnson’s engines, 250
Monkland & Kirkintilloch Ry., first engines on the, 50
Murray’s, M., engine [see Blenkinsopp], 5
N
“Namur,” on Crampton’s system, 112
Narrow-gauge engines on the G.W.R., the first, 182
Neilson’s type of goods engine, 180
Newcastle & Carlisle Ry., opening of, 59
Newcastle & Carlisle Ry., “Goliath” locomotive, 61
Newcastle & Carlisle Ry., “Atlas” locomotive, 61
Newcastle & Carlisle Ry., “Tyne” locomotive, 61
Newcastle & Carlisle Ry., “Eden” locomotive, 62
Newcastle & Carlisle Ry., “Meteor” locomotive, 62
Norfolk Ry., light engines on, 140
North British Ry. engines, 253, 276
North Eastern Ry. locomotives, 249, 252
North London Ry. engines, 191, 226, 230
“No. 266,” G.N.R., 308
“No. 990,” G.N.R., 306
“Nunthorpe,” S. & D.R., 193
O
“Old Coppernob,” Furness Ry., the oldest engine now at work, 123
Opening of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway, 44
Opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Ry., 46
Opening of the Stockton & Darlington Ry., 47
Opening of the Newcastle & Carlisle Ry., 59
Opening of the Grand Junction Railway, 64
Opening of the Great Western Ry., 72
Opening of the London & Birmingham Ry., 82
Opening of the London & Southampton Ry., 85
Opening of the East Kent Ry., 195
Opening of the Metropolitan Ry., B.G., 213
Opening of the Metropolitan & St. John’s Wood Ry., 233
P
Pambour, on the early L. & M. Ry. engines, 50
Pasey’s compressed air locomotive, 169
“Patentee,” Stephenson’s 6-wheel passenger engine
for the L. & M.R., 59
Paton’s Cowlairs Incline engine, 98
Pearson’s design for a double tank locomotive, 147;
9ft. singles, 173
Pettigrew, W., engines for the Furness Ry., 315
“Perseverance,” at Rainhill, 37
“Planet,” L. & M. Ry., 49
“Plews,” Y.N & B.R., 144
Pollitt, H., engines for the Great Central Ry., 316
“Precedent” type, L. & N.W.R., 238
“Precursor” type, L. & N.W.R., 239
“Pretolea,” G.E.R., 255
“Premier,” B.G., 105
“Problem,” L. & N.W.R., first engine fitted with the injector, 197
Pryce, H. J., engines for the N.L.R., 230
“Puffing Billy”, 12
“Python,” L. & S.W.R., 231
Q
“Queen Empress,” L. & N.W.R., 246
R
Rainhill locomotive contest, “Cycloped” at the, 38
Rainhill locomotive contest, Manumotive carriages at the, 38
Rainhill locomotive contest, “Perseverance” at the, 37
Rainhill locomotive contest, “Rocket” at the, 35
Rainhill locomotive contest: “Sanspareil” at the, 33
Rainhill locomotive contest, “Novelty” at the, 30
Ramsbottom’s water pick-up apparatus, 198
“Red Star,” B.G., 136
Rennie’s “Lambro,” 95
Ritchie’s design for a locomotive, 148
Roberts’s “Experiment,” L. & M.R., with cylinder valves, 56
Robertson’s steam brake, 97
“Rocket,” at Rainhill, 35;
later history, 37
“Rocket,” Colburn’s opinion of her, 36
“Rocket,” her tubular boiler invented by Booth, 36
“Rocket,” awarded the Rainhill prize, 36
Russia, Hackworth’a trunk engine, the first locomotive in, 61
“Royal George,” first financially successful locomotive, 23
“Royal William”, 19
S
Samuels’ “Little Wonder,” 130
“Sanspareil,” at Rainhill, 33;
later history, 34
“Sanspareil 2,” 149
Sheffield & Manchester Ry., Bodmer’s engines on, 100, 101
Sheffield & Manchester Ry., “Atlas,” 110
Short-stroke engines, 60, 61
Sinclair’s smoke-consuming engines, 192;
“singles,” 206;
tanks, 217
“Snake,” 122
Steam organ, fitted to the “Tyne,” 62
Steam tenders, 217
Steam blast (see also Hackworth), 24
Stephenson, Geo., & Hackworth, 11, 21, 25, 33
Stephenson’s engines: first, 14;
second, 15;
third, 16;
later types, 26, 27, 35, 43, 46, 49, 50, 51, 56, 59, 60, 64;
long boiler, 103;
3-cylinder, 105;
“A,” 105;
“White Horse of Kent,” 111;
double engine, 194
Stephenson’s, Robt., valve gear, 94;
link motion, 96
Stephenson’s, Robt., challenge to, re “Sanspareil 2,” 150
Stewart., W., early locomotives by, 13
Stirling, P., 8ft. 1in. “singles” for the G.N.R., 236
Stirling, J., design for the G. & S.W.R., 241
Stirling, J., reversing apparatus, 241
Stirling, J., locomotives for the S.E.R., 266
Stockton & Darlington Ry., opening of, 20
Stockton and Darlington Railway, “Royal George,” 23
Stockton & Darlington Ry. locomotives, 22, 27, 47, 52, 53,
54, 61, 64, 65, 193, 206, 234
Stroudley’s engines for the L.B. & S.C.R., 242, 252
Sturrock, Archibald, apprenticed, 58;
“215,” G.N.R., 171;
and Met. R., 214;
condensing engines, 216;
steam tenders, 217
“Soho,” 86
South Eastern Ry., Bodmer’s engines on, 101
South Eastern Ry., “White Horse of Kent,” 111;
“Folkestone,” 159;
Sharp’s engines, 161;
Cudworth’s, 189, 225;
Watkin’s, 241;
Stirling’s, 266
South Devon Ry. locomotives, B.G., 179
“Sunbeam,” S. & D.R., 64
“Swiftsure,” Forrester’s, engine for the L. & M.R., 59
T
Tayleur’s short-stroke locomotives, 60
Tank engines, early, 137, 158
Taff Valley Ry. engines, 163, 202, 233, 292
Ten feet driving wheel engines, B.G., 69, 73, 76
“Teutonic,” L. & N.W.R., 244
“Thunderer,” B.G., 77
Three-cylinder engines, Stephenson & Howe’s, 105
Three-cylinder engines, Kendall’s, 231
“Tiny,” Crewe Works, engine, 209
Tosh’s goods engine, 182
Trevithick’s, F., “Cornwall,” 119
Trevithick, R., inventor of the steam locomotive, 1
Trevithick, R., his first railway engine, 2
“Tyne,” N. & C.R., 62
V
Vale of Neath Railway (see Brunel).
Valve gears, “Experiment,” 57;
“Soho,” 86;
Gray’s, 93;
Dodds & Owen’s, 93;
Stephenson’s, 94;
link motion, 96;
vertical, 123;
rotatory, 181;
Dubs’, 199
“Venus,” B.G., 72, 136
“Vulcan,” B.G., 69, 70
W
“Wallace,” Dundee & Arbroath Railway, 82
Water pick-up apparatus, Ramsbottom’s, 198
“Welsh Pony,” Festiniog Ry., 223
Webb, F. W., engines for the L. & N.W.R., “Precedents,” 238;
“Precursors,” 239;
compounds, 243;
“Greater Britain,” 245;
8 wheel coupled, 246;
“Black Prince,” 248
Whishaw on Great Western Ry. B.G. engines
(see Chapter VI., pages 66 to 81)
Williams and the “link” motion, 96
Wilson’s, Ed., system of smoke-consuming, 191
“Wilberforce,” S. & D.R., 53
“William the 4th,” and “Queen Adelaide” locomotives, 46
Winans’ Manumotive carriages at Rainhill, 38
Worsdell’s compounds, 249
“Windcutter,” locomotive, 274
Wood, N., on Great Western Ry. B.G. engines
(see chapter VI., pages 66 to 81)
“Wrekin,” 161
Y
Yarrow’s coal-burning engine, 190
Yorston’s coal-burning engine, 188
“Ysabel,” 168