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On 15 August 1895, locomotive No. 275 Vulcan was one of two locomotives hauling an express passenger train that derailed at Preston, Lancashire due to excessive speed on a curve. One person was killed. [1] On 27 October 1895, locomotive No. 790 Hardwicke was hauling an express passenger train that collided with a freight train at Preston.
Hardwick&WoodburyLocoNo.2.jpg (600 × 300 pixels, file size: 38 KB, ... Summary. Hardwick & Woodbury Locomotive No. 2 Photo taken 1905-10. Licensing
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Between 1893 and 1901, sixty-two of the locomotives were "renewed" (i.e. replaced with new locomotives carrying the same number and name) as Improved Precedent class locomotives. The remaining eight were rebuilt as Improved Precedents in the 1890s; they retained their 7 ⁄ 8 inch (22.2 mm) thick frames – the renewals had 1-inch (25.4 mm) frames.
The Hardwick and Woodbury Railroad (H&WRR, or H&W) was a short-line railroad serving the towns of Hardwick and Woodbury, Vermont.Built to serve the local granite industry by bringing rough stone from the quarries to the cutting-houses, the railroad was about 7 miles (11 km) long, plus leased track, extended to about 11 miles (18 km) at its greatest extent.
The LNWR Steel Works (authorised 20 October 1864) The LNWR Deviation Works (built in the late 1860s) The Spider Bridge extension to Crewe railway station (built in 1878). Of the above, the first section dating from 1862 was within the original locomotive works first built in 1843 and expanded many times as the railway system grew.
Tyseley Locomotive Works [275] [Note 98] BR: 1100 Prototype Griddle Car Eastleigh, BR Dia No. 30, Lot No. 30637 1960 Great Central [276] BR: 13252 Prototype Mk2 FK: Swindon (BR) Dia No. 120, Lot No. 30550 1962 Mid-Norfolk [277] [Note 99] BR: 81025 Gangwayed Full Brake Sheffield, Cravens: Dia No. 711, Lot No. 30224 1956 Bluebell Railway [278]
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