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Robinson GCR design with small boiler, Belpaire firebox, steam and vacuum brakes and water scoop. O4/2, Introduced 1925. O4/3 with cabs and boiler mountings reduced. O4/3, Introduced 1917. ROD locos with steam brake only and no water scoop. O4/4, Rebuilt with O2 boiler, extended rear frames and side window cab, since rebuilt again.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Boiler pressure: 145 psi (1,000 kPa) ... number In service Z187 James Martin & Co: 99 22 December 1894 Z188
The cylinders and running gear were broadly similar, but the boiler was enlarged and its pressure raised from 200 psi to 215 psi. The grate area was increased by nearly a third. The 710 had been fitted with a Franklin C-2 booster engine [ 1 ] on the trailing truck and this was repeated for the 720.
Download QR code; Print/export ... Boiler pressure: ... number 7 was rebuilt by Islington Railway Workshops as a crane locomotive with number 4 following in 1893 ...
The Great Central Railway Class 8, known as the London and North Eastern Railway Class B5 following the 1923 Grouping, was a class of fourteen 4-6-0 steam locomotives designed to haul fast goods trains, in particular fish trains.
The leading dimensions of the GWR 3000 Class were the same as the GCR Class 8K except that the GWR increased the boiler pressure to 185 psi (1,280 kPa) which increased the tractive effort from 31,327 lbf (139,350 N) to 32,197 lbf (143,220 N).
The GCR Class 8C was a class of a pair of 4-6-0 locomotives built for the Great Central Railway in 1903–1904 by Beyer, Peacock and Company.They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the 1923 grouping and received the classification B1.
The standard chimney was still used for exhausting smoke from the fire box and was only used during lighting-up, in normal working the gases went through firetubes inside the preheater drum that led to a second smokebox situated beneath the boiler from which there emerged a chimney on the right-hand side (fireman's), just forward of the firebox.