History

"PASSENGER LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY." On our two-page plate, and on page. 35, we give this week engravings showing the general arrangement of one of a class of outside cylinder side-tank locomotives designed by Mr. J . C. Park, M.I.C.E. , for the North London line, and constructed at the company's works, Bow Road, London, E. 1. In many of its details this engine resembles the tank goods locomotive for the same line ...  but being intended for passenger traff..

CONTRACTOR'S LOCOMOTIVE. We give above an engraving of a tank locomotive engine, designed and constructed by Messrs. Peckett and Sons, of the Atlas Engine Works, Bristol, which has been specially designed  for the use of contractors, and is also well adapted for collieries, ironworks, and many other purposes, and is neat and strong. This locomotive, as will be seen from the illustration, is of the saddle tank type, and is fitted with inside cylinders of special hard cylinder metal, 12in. di..

THE JENNY LIND. We illustrate this week an engine round which very great historical interest centres. The Jenny Lind was in a very large measure the forerunner of the standard type of English locomotive. We believe that most of our readers will admit that even in modern eyes there is much to admire in the design, and it is probable that the engine was on the whole the handsomest locomotive that had been built up to that date. The origin of the design is very instructive, and we arc indebted to the priva..

TANK LOCOMOTIVE FOR THE WOTTON TRAMWAY. (1879) CONSTRUCTED BY MR. W. G. BAGNALL, ENGINEER STAFFORD.     We give, above, engravings of a four-wheeled tank locomotive constructed by Mr. W. G. Bagnall, of the Castle Engine Works, Stafford, the leading feature in this engine being the arrangement of the cylinders and working gear. The engine is of a type of which several have been constructed by Mr. Bagnall, with cylinders of from 4 in. in diameter upwards, the particular locomotive illust..