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Her yard number was 301 and she was launched on 28 March 1903. The completed ship was 520 ft (160 m) in length, a beam of 58.3 ft (17.8 m) and a draught of 24.8 ft (7.6 m). Her gross tonnage was 9,500. [1] Coal bunkerage was 2,000 tons and cargo about 3,500 tons. Moldavia was built for 348 first and 166 saloon class passengers. [2]
Railway Number and name Type or Class Builder Works Number Built Wheels Location Object Number Image GNR: 1 Stirling Single: GNR Doncaster: 1870 4-2-2
Royal Mail aircraft-marking; on a British Airways Airbus A320-232 G-EUUI. In recent years the shift to air transport for mail has left only three ships with the right to the prefix or its variations: RMS Segwun, which serves as a passenger vessel in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada; RMV Scillonian III, which serves the Isles of Scilly; and RMS Queen Mary 2.
January 20 – The Grand Trunk Western Railroad opens a passenger depot in Lansing, Michigan.; January 28 – Esmond Train Wreck: fourteen people are killed when the Crescent City Express (No. 8, bound for Benson, Arizona) collides head-on with the bound Pacific Coast Express (No. 7, bound for Tucson).
The conversion was completed in 1915, and trials took place under Captain Oliver Schwann of the Royal Navy, with Charles H. Lightoller (formerly second officer of RMS Titanic) as the first officer. Two weeks later she joined the fleet at Scapa Flow as HMS Campania, and subsequently began manoeuvres in the North Sea. Her job was to send ...
These included three varieties of the 2-2-2 LNWR Bloomer Class, 86 of the Wolverton Express Goods 0-6-0 and four varieties of 0-4-2. [ 2 ] In 1846, the London and Birmingham became part of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR); Bury resigned in 1847 and was succeeded by James E. McConnell as locomotive superintendent of the LNWR Southern ...
Britannia was a large ship for the period, 207 feet (63 m) long and 34 feet (10.3 m) across the beam, with three masts and a wooden hull. [2] She had paddle wheels and her coal-powered [2] two-cylinder side-lever engine (from Robert Napier) had a power output of about 740 indicated horsepower with a coal consumption around 38 tons per day. [2]
This is a reproduction of a postcard produced by the Intercolonial Railway from a photograph circa 1903, depicting the train "Maritime Express" in the Wentworth Valley of Nova Scotia. Source Original publication: Postcard Immediate source: Nova Scotia Archives Date circa 1903 Author Unknown photographer (Life time: n/a) Permission (Reusing this ...