Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Purchased new by Squire Hardwicke for his Tytherington Stone Company. Worked at Church Quarry, Tytherington which was connected to the Thornbury branch line of the Midland Railway. The locomotive was named after the Squire's eldest daughter. In 1923 the locomotive was sold to Pilkington Brothers and used at their Ravenhead works, St Helens.
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.
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.
Hardwick&WoodburyLocoNo.2.jpg (600 × 300 pixels, file size: 38 KB, ... Summary. Hardwick & Woodbury Locomotive No. 2 Photo taken 1905-10. Licensing
Hardwick&WoodburyLocoNo.1.jpg (600 × 200 pixels, file size: 34 KB, ... Summary. Hardwick & Woodbury Railroad Locomotive No. 1 Photo taken ca. 1900 Licensing
[5] [4] The track works' permanent way huts (p-huts) [4] still stood at Drayton in 2007 and Horley in 2002. [4] A few old OIR fence posts/gates remain to this day along the route. Banbury's Ruscote and Hardwick estate's (Daimler Avenue, Devon Way and Longelandes Way) [ 4 ] are also built over a large part of its route, including most of the ...
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]