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The Ernakulam Velankanni Express is a train service in the Southern Railway zone of India. It runs between Ernakulam and Velankanni via Kottayam, Tiruvalla, Kollam Junction, Kottarakkara, Tenkasi, Virudhunagar, Manamadurai, Karaikudi, Tiruthuraipundi, and Tiruvarur.
Ever since the Santa Fe Railway develop the 2-10-2 wheel arrangement (hence the Railroad's namesake) in 1903, the Southern Railway (SOU) began placing a new order of their own 2-10-2s; the Ss class were built with 57 in (1,448 mm) driving wheels, duplex stokers, 71,000 lb (32.2 tonnes) of tractive effort, and an operating boiler pressure of 190 psi (1.31 MPa).
The Southern Railway was primarily a passenger-carrying railway which used most of its resources to extend its electrified lines. There was a continuing need for steam freight locomotives however, although the Traffic Department preferred mixed-traffic designs which could also haul passenger trains on the remaining non-electrified lines at peak periods.
Many of the locomotives were renumbered up to three times: from 1924 the Southern Railway (SR) applied the prefix "A", i.e. A10 etc., the work being completed in 1927; [9] from 1931 the SR dropped the "A" and increased the numbers by 1000 (i.e. 1010 etc.); and from 1948, under British Railways, the numbers were further increased by 30000 ...
The 2-10-2 wheel arrangement evolved in the United States from the 2-10-0 Decapod of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). Their existing 2-10-0 tandem compound locomotives, used as pushers up Raton Pass, encountered problems reversing back down the grade for their next assignments since they were unable to track around curves at ...
The Southern Railway introduced the train on March 12, 1899, and it was known as the crack train of the route until the introduction of the Crescent in 1925. [1] [2]A spur branch served Birmingham, but this was eliminated by 1964. [3]
851 Sir Francis Drake, SR Lord Nelson class 932 Blundell's Schools Class 4-4-0 at Eastleigh in 1948. Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell CBE (pronounced "Mansell" [1]) (26 May 1868 – 7 March 1944) was an Irish Locomotive Engineer who held the post of chief mechanical engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913 until the 1923 Grouping and then the post of CME of the Southern ...
In 1925, Southern Railway president Fairfax Harrison traveled to the United Kingdom, where he admired the country's London and North Eastern Railway's apple green passenger steam locomotives. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Harrison's trip had inspired the appearance of the second order of Ps-4s built in the summer of 1926 by ALCO's Richmond Works by having them ...