Midland Railway 0-4-4 Tank Engine (1876)
We give this week a two-page engraving, together with other views on the present and opposite pages, of one of a class of powerful tank locomotives constructed from the designs of Mr. Samuel W. Johnson, for working heavy local passenger traffic on the Midland Railway. The engine now illustrated may be considered to be a development of the type introduced by Mr. Johnson on the Great Eastern Railway, while he was the locomotive superintendent of that line - a type w..
From 1866 onwards "The Engineer" and "Engineering" published a number of articles about NLR 4-4-0t passenger tank engines which contained novel improvements. These are grouped here for download.
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TANK LOCOMOTIVE NORTH LONDON RAILWAY. 1881
We give this week on page 379 a side elevation of a powerful six-coupled tank engine, built the year before last by Mr. J. C. Park, the locomotive superintendent of the North-London Railway, for goods service on that line.
As will be seen from our engraving, the engine is of the outside-cylinder type.
In regular daily work the engine hauls the "Poplar Goods" train made up as follows:
2 brake vans.......
"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..