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Holes on the edges of the plate fit over these bolts and the cover is fastened down with nuts or dogs. Vapor accidents can occur when pressure builds up in the tank below and the Butterworth cover is carelessly removed. [5] Butterworth hatches have been responsible for a number of marine losses. [6]
The 0-6-0 remained a common type for lighter use and on branch lines, but the 0-8-0 largely disappeared in favour of the better-riding 2-8-0. The first 2-8-0 to be built in Britain was the Great Western Railway 's 2800 Class , with 84 locomotives built between 1903 and 1919, followed by a further 83 of the very similar GWR 2884 Class between ...
The London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) Thompson Class Q1 was a class of 0-8-0T steam locomotives. They were rebuilds of the GCR Class 8A (LNER Class Q4) 0-8-0s. Thirteen were rebuilt between 1942 and 1945 at Gorton Works. All passed to British Railways in 1948, numbered 69925–69937. [1] [2] [3]
Freight engines with an 0-8-0 wheel arrangement were once very popular in Germany. The Prussian state railways had several types of 0-8-0s that were all classified as G7, G8 and G9. The latest of these, the Prussian G 8.1, was the most numerous German state railway locomotive with over five thousand examples being built between 1913 and 1921.
A manhole cover is a removable plate forming the lid over the opening of a manhole, an opening large enough for a person to pass through that is used as an access point for an underground vault or pipe. It is designed to prevent anyone or anything from falling in, and to keep out unauthorized persons and material.
Essentially a tank version of the G class 0-8-0s. When introduced they had the then new style of 12 in (300 mm) letters for the company's initials on the tank sides. When introduced they had the then new style of 12 in (300 mm) letters for the company's initials on the tank sides.
Both standard gauge and narrow gauge 1D1 2-8-2 tank locomotive classes were used in Germany. The DRG Class 93.0-4 was a German 2-8-2T goods train tank locomotive that was used by the Prussian state railways as well as the French Chemins de fer d'Alsace et de Lorraine, designated as Class T14 by both railways
Designed at the Kharkiv Locomotive Factory by Konstantin Chelpan and his team, it is found in the BT-7M (BT-8), T-34, KV, IS and IS-10 (T-10) tanks, and by extension, the vehicles based on them, such as the SU-85 and SU-100 tank destroyers based on the T-34 and the ISU-122 and ISU-152 self-propelled guns based on the IS-2. Throughout its ...