Every boy's book of railways and steamships (1911)
Protheroe, Ernest · London : Religious Tract Society · leaf 98
a.m., and arrives at Bristol at 8.25, calling 4_4_2at five stations. It is a pp with 6 feet 8 inches driving-wheels. Much might be said of the development ofthe tank engine if space would allow, but it wouldbe at the expense of other matters that must notbe omitted; and a tank engine after all is… … TANK LOCOMOTIVES.1. M.R. (0-6-4). 2. G.W.R. (0-6-0). 3. N.E.R. (4-8-0). THE LCXZOMOTIVE 79 considerable variation. There are side-tankengines, well-tank and saddle-tank. In thefirst the water tanks are placed at the sides ofthe boilers, rising from the frame plates over thedriving wheels; in the…
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