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The Garlogie Beam Engine is a steam powered beam engine, built in 1833, that once powered a woollen mill at Garlogie, Aberdeenshire. It is a rare survivor of the Industrial Revolution and the oldest steam engine of any kind still in its original location in Scotland. [ 1 ]
Within a given country, different notations may also be employed for different kinds of locomotives, such as steam, electric, and diesel powered. Especially in steam days, wheel arrangement was an important attribute of a locomotive because there were many different types of layout adopted, each wheel being optimised for a different use (often ...
Garlogie Mill Power House, now a museum, has the mill's original beam engine on display. Garlogie (Scottish Gaelic: Geàrr Lagaidh) is a roadside hamlet in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. [1] It was, during the 19th century, the site of a textile milling settlement using water from Loch of Skene. [1] [2] The mill houses a beam engine and 1923 ...
Collects steam at the top of the boiler (well above the water level) so that it can be fed to the engine via the main steam pipe, or dry pipe, and the regulator/throttle valve. [2] [5] [6]: 211–212 [3]: 26 Air pump / Air compressor Westinghouse pump (US+) Powered by steam, it compresses air for operating the train air brake system.
With such a setup, trains needing to reverse direction can use a technique known as a "run around," in which the engines are uncoupled from the train, pull around it on an adjacent track or siding, and reattach at the other end. The engineer changes operating ends from the original locomotive to the one on the opposite end of the locomotive ...
A turntable for the Central Railroad of New Jersey. Turnplates at the Park Lane goods station of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1831. Early wagonways were industrial railways for transporting goods—initially bulky and heavy items, particularly mined stone, ores and coal—from one point to another, most often to a dockside to be loaded onto ships. [4]
The first Great Northern Railway engine shed at London was built in 1850, three quarters of a mile north-west of where Kings Cross station is located today. It was built on a large area of open land, with the East and West India Docks and Birmingham Junction Railway to the north, the main line of the Great Northern Railway to the east and Regent's Canal to the south.
Having housed steam locomotives since opening in May 1868, [4] the introduction of diesels in the 1950s led to steam and diesel being serviced side by side. [4] However, by 1977 a new two-road diesel maintenance facility had replaced the original brick sheds, [5] so that in 1978 Holbeck was typically host to up to 20 diesel locomotives on weekdays, and up to 30 at weekends, [6] and around this ...