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The Ernakulam Velankanni Express is a train service in the Southern Railway zone of India. It runs between Ernakulam and Velankanni via Kottayam, Tiruvalla, Kollam Junction, Kottarakkara, Tenkasi, Virudhunagar, Manamadurai, Karaikudi, Tiruthuraipundi, and Tiruvarur.
Ever since the Santa Fe Railway develop the 2-10-2 wheel arrangement (hence the Railroad's namesake) in 1903, the Southern Railway (SOU) began placing a new order of their own 2-10-2s; the Ss class were built with 57 in (1,448 mm) driving wheels, duplex stokers, 71,000 lb (32.2 tonnes) of tractive effort, and an operating boiler pressure of 190 psi (1.31 MPa).
The Southern Railway was primarily a passenger-carrying railway which used most of its resources to extend its electrified lines. There was a continuing need for steam freight locomotives however, although the Traffic Department preferred mixed-traffic designs which could also haul passenger trains on the remaining non-electrified lines at peak periods.
The majority of the class consisted of 2-cylinder locomotives built to an SECR design by Richard Maunsell, but one 3-cylinder version, the K1 class, was constructed by the Southern Railway in 1925. They were given the names of various rivers by the Southern Railway in a publicity measure to advertise the area that the railway served. [1]
The 2-10-2 wheel arrangement evolved in the United States from the 2-10-0 Decapod of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF). Their existing 2-10-0 tandem compound locomotives, used as pushers up Raton Pass, encountered problems reversing back down the grade for their next assignments since they were unable to track around curves at ...
851 Sir Francis Drake, SR Lord Nelson class 932 Blundell's Schools Class 4-4-0 at Eastleigh in 1948. Richard Edward Lloyd Maunsell CBE (pronounced "Mansell" [1]) (26 May 1868 – 7 March 1944) was an Irish Locomotive Engineer who held the post of chief mechanical engineer (CME) of the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from 1913 until the 1923 Grouping and then the post of CME of the Southern ...
The Southern Railway introduced the train on March 12, 1899, and it was known as the crack train of the route until the introduction of the Crescent in 1925. [1] [2]A spur branch served Birmingham, but this was eliminated by 1964. [3]
In 1923, the Southern Railway inherited 84 3-car suburban electric multiple units from the London and South Western Railway (LSWR), dating from 1914. [1] These could be enhanced by 24 2-car trailer sets coupled between two units, creating 8-car formations. Over the next 18 years the SR acquired a further 516 3-car sets. [2]