Locomotive Railway Carriage & Wagon Review Volume 43 (1937)

Locomotive Railway Carriage & Wagon Review

Volume 43 (1937)

Fliers. 303.
The operation of special express trains at above speeds limited the overall train services which could be operated and restricted the overaul locomotive availability. The only gain noted was an increase in publicity.

London & North Eastern Railway. 303.
Further series of 2-6-2 engines of V2 class completed at North Road Works, Darlington: Nos. 4778 (to Heaton); 4779, 4780 The Snapper, 4781 and 4782 (to York), 4783 (to Heaton), and 4784 to the Southern area. Recent withdrawals included 4-6-0 No.788, 0-6-0 No. 1592, and 349 and Nos. 2462 and 2474 of the J23 0-6-0 class. The name-plate on No. 4780 is quite elaborate; mounted over the middle drivers it incorporates the regimental colours, the full lettering being: The Snapper, East Yorkshire Regiment, Duke of York's Own.

4-4-0 passenger engine, No. 244, Egyptian State Rlys., with Caprotti valve gear. 304.
26 locomotives completed by North British Locomotive Co. Ltd. of Glasgow for the Egyptian State Railway. Intended for moderate speeds and fairly light trains on the level roads of Northern Egypt, eighteen of these engines were coal burners, three of which were fitted with Nicholson thermic syphons in the fireboxes, whilst the remaining eight were arranged for burning heavy oil fuel; the burner for the oil was arranged at the front of the fire pan. The inner firebox was of steel for all the engines, and steel tubes were used throughout. There were two outside cylinders, 17 in dia. by 26 in. stroke with Caprotti valve gear. The coupled wheels were 5 ft. 6¾ in. diameter.

Great Western Railway. 304.
New engines completed at Swindon: 4-6-0s Nos. 6830 Buckenhall Grange; 6831 Bearley Grange; 6832 Brockton Grange; 6833 Calcot Grange; 6834 Dummer Grange; 4-4-0 No. 3214 (Dukedog) ; 0-6-0PT Nos. 3732-5; 2-8-2T No. 7240. Recent withdrawals included 0-6-0T No. 671 (Alexandra Dock, No. 16); 0-6-0 tank No. 1802; 0-6-0 tender No. 2390; 4-4-0 tender Duke of Cornwall class No. 3252; 2-8-0T Nos. 4202, 4220 and 43XX 2-6-0 Nos. 4305, 4330, 4352, 4362, 4373 and 4393.
In consequence of the decline in local traffic, the passenger service between Clynderwen and Fishguard Harbour, via Rosebush and Letterston, was withdrawn on 25 September 1937. Goods, mineral and other merchandise traffic was still be dealt with at Llangefni, Maenclochog, Rosebush, Puncheston and Letterston stations only. A new halt at Six Bells, between Abertil1ery and Aberbeeg opened on September 27.

Metropolitan Railway. 304.
Steam locomotives of the London Passenger Transport Board were now overhauled at the Stratford Works of the LNER. Ex-Metropolitan Rly. 4-4-4 tank locomotives Nos. 105 and 106 were under repair at Stratford. The old locomotive shops at Neasden were demolished to make room for further electric stock sheds. Transfer to Stratford was via Finchley Road and South Tottenham.

Weston, Clevedon & Portishead Ry. 304.
This line has now taken over Southern Ry. engine No. 2653, an ex-L.B.S.C. "Terrier" tank, formerly No. 53 Ashtead, and now No.4 on the W.C. & P.R. It is painted green with yellow lettering. .

2-10-2 locomotive, Tientsin-Pukow Railway. 305-6. illus.
Built by Krupp for service in China: had bar frames.

New Russian electric locomotives. 306-8. illus., diagr. (s. el.).
Co-Co locomotives of the VL and SK types built at the Kolumna Machine Works.

London, Midland & Scottish Railway. 308.
Last of series of class 4F 0-6-0 freight tender engines (Nos. 4562-4576) completed at Crewe: all fitted with tenders of former standard 3,500 gallons type interchanged for new high capacity tenders with engines of the 4-6-0 Silver Jubilee class. Series of 25, 2-6-2 passenger tank engines (class 3), under construction at Crewe; these would bear numbers from 185 upwards. Further 2-cylinder 4-6-0 mixed traffic engines had arrived at Crewe from Armstrong, Whitworth & Co., the latest in service being No. 5416. The last of the series, No. 5451, was due for delivery about the middle of December. Engines recently turned out at Crewe rebuilt with standard Belpaire boilers included: 4-4-0 superheated Precursor No. 25279 Sunbeam; 4-6-0 Prince of Wales class No. 25818; and 0-8-0 class G1 Nos. 8913, 8922, 9161 and 9734. Withdrawals included 4-4-0 George the Fifth class No. 25360 Beagle; 4-6-0 Prince of Wales class No. 25692, also G.& S.W. 4-4-0 engine, No. 14521; and 0-6-0 coal saddle tanks Nos. 27462 and 27470. These two latter were converted from tender engines during Whale's regime at Crewe. Other tank engines withdrawn included 4-6-2 L.N.W. No. 6989; 4-4-2 No. 6829; 0-6-4 Midland No. 2003; 0-4-4 No. 1325, and 0-6-0 No. 1819. A further two Baby Scots had been recently named: No. 5526 Morecambe and Heysham and No. 5527 Southport. At Derby new 2-6-2 passenger tank engines are in traffic up to No. 150. A further ten streamlined Princess Coronation class Pacific type locomotives were to be built at Crewe for 1938 summer's traffic.

Reed, K.H. and Fayle, H. Recent developments of Irish locomotive practice, Great Southern Railways. 309-11. 5 illus.
Continued from page 284. Nos. 403 and 405 as rebuilt with K type boiler, Latter illustrated. 139 locomotives were taken into GSR stock from the Midland Great Western Railway in 1925. Notes that D16 class 4-4-0s Nos. 531 and 534 were rebuilt bwith X type superheated boiilers in 1932. No. 531 also received larger 17 x 24in cylinders. Class was still working the Mayo line between Athlone and Achill. K class 2-4-0 (GSR G2 class): thirteen rebuilt at Inchicore with Y class superheated Belpaire boilers. A class 4-4-0 (GSR D5): No. 124 (524) rebuilt with Belpaire boiler following deliberate derailment at Streamstown in 1924; Nos. 126 and 128 similarly rebuilt. Subsequently renumbered 545-550. C class 4-4-0s regrouped into two classes: D7: those with Robinson superheaters and D slide valves (subsequently, Nos. 536, 537 and 539 fitted with X type superheaters); and D6 with higher-pitched Belpaire boilers (see also Locomotive, 1918, April)..

Sixteen cyl. 4-8-4 loco., Baltimore & Ohio R.R. 311-12.
Sixteen 9½ x 7in cylinders arranged for constant torque propulsion on the Besler system and intended to haul 14 standrad Pullman cars at 100 mile/h and developing 5000 horse-power. The motion and gears were to be enclosed and continuously lubricated. No counterbalancing required. Emerson water-tube boiler to work at 350 psi..

[Closure of Methven branch to passenger traffic]. 312.
From 26 September 1937.

[Closure of Westport to Achill line, Great Southern Railways]. 312.
To all traffic on 1 October 1937.

[Retirement of E.A. Forward]. 312.
Keeper of rhe Engineering Division, Science Museum: retirement on 5 September 1937. Trained at Bow Works of North London Railway. Joined Museum in 1901.

Inspection train, Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway. 312. illus.
Photograph of No. 1 Gazelle at Shrewsbury Abbey Foregate station with four-wheel coach: notes how built by Alfrred Dodman & Co. of King's Lynn as a 2-2-2, rebuilt as 0-4-2 by Bagnall in 1911, and reconditioned at Kinnerley by Mr Owen. Lists locomotive stock then available.

Institution of Locomotive Engineers, Lt.-Col. F.R. Collins, President, 1937-8. 313-14. illus. (port.).
Biography and Presidential Address (abstract of): see J. Instn Loco. Engrs, 1937, 27, 461 for former and 586 for latter.

Lateral thrusts at high speeds. 314-15.
Tests conducted by the PLM Railway betwen Paris and Lyons and Marseilles with streamlined Atlantic locomotive 221-A-3 and Pacific locomotive 231-D-187 to establish lateral thrusts at high speed. The Atlantic produced transient thrusts of 4.7 tons on the first coupled axle on straight track at 80 mile/h. The Pacific produced a maximum lateral thrust of 6.4 tons at 81 mile/h on straight traffic. Increasing the lateral force applied by the leading bogie and thinning of the tyres on the leading coupled axles reduced the thrust.

Trentham Miniature Railway. 315. illus.
Two-foot gauge railway wirh petrol engined steam-outline locomotives constructed by E.E. Baguley Ltd.

The Hunslet Engine Co. 315.
Order from the Peruvian Corporation for a diesel-mechanical locomotive to work under exceptional altitude conditions: to be capable of haulng considerable loads up severe inclines (worst stretch being 1 in 14) from sea level up to and including an altitude of 14,000 ft. The engine to be manufactured by Mirrlees, Bickerton & Day, and at normal sea level rating capable of developing up to 330 b.h.p. The Buchi supercharger, being on the turbine principle, would have a natural compensating effect as altitude increases. A Vulcan-Sinclair hydraulic coupling to be fitted,.sm, and automatic control. Consulting and inspecting engineers Messrs. Livesey & Henderson.

New locomotives for German secondary railways. 316-17. 2 illus., diagr.
To assist with conveying National Socialists on "country hiking excursions" between Southofen and Obersdorf and Mark Obersdorf and Fussen the Munich Local Railway Company ordered 0-8-2Ts with Krauss-Helmholtz bogies from Ktauss Maffei. The Schaftlach-Gmund-Tegernsee Railway acquired 2-8-2Ts with Krauss-Helmholtz bogies at both ends. These locomotives had to be able to cope with 1 in 33 gradients, severe curvature and light bridge structures.

The "West Riding Limited" L.N.E.R. 318-21. 2 illus., diagr. (s. el. and plan)
Other than noting that two A4 Pacifics had been selected to operate the service (Nos. 4495 Golden Fleece and 4496 Golden Shuttle) and the demanding schedules of nearly 68 mile/h in the up direction and slightly over 68 mile/h in the down direction and average speeds to and from Bradford to London in excess of 63 mile/h in spite of reversal at Leeds and haulage by two tank engines over ten difficult miles, the feature is about the new rolling stock and its luxurious interior noting involvement of Murray Adams Acton of Acton Surgey Ltd, use of Rexine and pressure ventilation..

[Mechanical coaling plant, Stranraer locomotive depot, LMSR]. 321.
All steel construction with overhead bunker holding 25 tons of coal.

The Storstrom Bridge, Denmark. 321-2. illus.
A road and rail bridge, nearly 2¼ miles long opened by King Christian X on 26 September 1937. Contractors: Dorman, Long & Co.

The Marshall diesel tractor. 322. 2 illus.
Agricultural tractor adapted to needs of railway shunting: shown working at Corporation Quay, Sunderland.

Phillipson, E.A. The steam locomotive in traffic. II. Departmental organisation: function and policy of headquarters. 323-5. 2 diagrs.
Staffing arrangements.

Obituary — Sir John Dewrance. 325.
Son of John Dewrance, locomotive superintendent of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. Head of Dewrance & Co. engineers. Died aged 79 on 7 October 1937. He was patentee of "numerous" engineering inventions. In 1899 he became chairman of Babcock & Wilcox Ltd. and of the pioneering companies in the Kent coalfield. During WW1 he was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Treasury, the Ministry of Munitions, the Ministry of Labour and the Department of Overseas Trade. He was made a K.B.E. in 1920. He married a granddaughter of Richard Trevithick (she died in 1922).

Obituary — Mr. H. Chambers. 325.
Gives date of death, notes his period with Beyer Peacock as senior draughtsman, and that was personal assistant to Stanier when he died.

Obituary — R.G. Peckett. 325.
Died at Spring Lake, New Jersey on 23 September 1937, aged 69. Former chief mechanical engineer Egyptian State Railways.

Spanish electric locomotives. 325-7. 2 illus.
Three series of 1500V dc overhead electric locomotives: 7000 for Barcelona to Manresa section; 7100 series for Barcelona to San Juan de las Abadesas including the branch from Ripoli to Pingcerda giving access to the French frontier. The 7200 series were designed for hauling heavy expresses on the Irún to Alasua section, The 7000 and 7100 series were constructed by Compañía Euskalduna of Bilbao with Oerlikon electrical equipment and the 7200 series by Babcock & Wilcox of Bilbao with Brown Boveri electrical equipment.

Sanders, T.H. The Belleville washer spring. 328-31. 4 diagrs.
Invented by Julien Francois Belleville and patented in England in 1866.

Southern Railway. 331.
See p. 268: the three diesel shunting engines had been delivered and numbered 1-3 and were in service at Norwood marshalling yard.
From 1 October 1937 Medstead station renamed Medstead and Four Monks.

L.M.S. Ry. 331.
From 27 September 1937 Chilwell station reverted to name Attenborough. Monk Bretton station (between Cudworth and Barnsley) closed from 27 September 1937.

Dynamometer car tests on LMS. 331
During October 1937 LMS conducted dynamometer car tests between Bristol and Leeds via Birminghm, Derby and Sheffield, and between Leeds and Glasgow St Enoch via Carlisle, Dumfries and Kilmarnock to study the possible acceleration of services.

Derens, L. The Dutch State Railways Company. 331-3. 4 illus., diagr.

Improved train services, G.E. Section. L.N.E.R. 333-4. illus.
Arrival at Liverpool Street of first up East Anglian express hauled by No. 2859 East Anglian on Monday 27 September 1937. The service was aimed at Norwich and Ipswich business men to be able to spend mornings in their offices and afternoons in the City with lunch and dinner on the train..

Conversion of a railway to a road. 334.
Railway to Key West in Florida converted to a highway.

Durasteel. 334.
Steel and asbestos sheets.

Peat-burning locomotives. 334-5.
Peat or turf requires a broad but short grate with closely spaced firebars which need to be nearer to the crown of the firebox. A thin fire is needed with a low draught. The Glasgow & Garnkirk Railway experimented with peat burning in the 1830s. A report: On the use of turf as fuel for railway engines prepared by the Britsh Consul in Munich on experiments in Bavaria. There were experiments on the line between Paris and Lyons, on the Grand Trunk Railwayof Canada in 1868 and on the Hartford & Springfield Railway.

Colour light signalling, Great Southern Railways. 335.
Existing system between Amiens Street and Westland Row being extended to Dun Laoghaire.

Air-conditioning in Indian rolling stock. 335.
GIPR for service between Bombay and Delhi.

Reviews. 335.
Modern locomotives of the L.M.S. D.S. Barrie. Locomotive Publishing Co.
Notes that cover illustration was colour painting by M. Secretan.
The Railway Handbook, 1936-7. Railway Publishing Co.
British locomotive types. Railway Publishing Co.
113 diagrams, including new Q class of SR.
Locomotives of the Great Southern Railways of Ireland. S.J. W. Arthur H. Stockwell.
Very little descriptive matter in dealing with the locomotive types.
The development of the automotive radiator. John Coltman. Whitehead Bros. (Wolverhampton). 336
The North London Railway. R. Michael Robbins. Oakwood.
"handly little treatise"

Vulcan Foundry Ltd. 336.
Order from Rohilkund and Kumaon Railway for four 4-6-0 passenger locomotives to be built to inspection af Messrs. Rendel, Palmer and Tritton.

Lubrication of the Silver Jubilee. 336
Silver Jubilee train of the LNER had been running for over two years, during which period it had run over 260,000 miles. This express covered 2,680 miles a week at an average speed between King's Cross and Darlington of 71.65 m.p.h., and between King's Cross and Newcastle of 67.08 m.p.h., the maximum speed being limited to 90 m.p.h. During the whole period there have been only two cases of hot axleboxes on the engines working the train. The axle boxes of the engines working these expresses are lubricated by Wakefield Silver Jubilee engine oil, and Wakefield mechanical lubricators supply oil to the axleboxes, valves and cylinders.

Whitelegg and Rogers Ltd.. 336
Orders received from Crown Agents for the Colonies, for 29 sets af "Ajax" grease lubricating equipment for Nigerian Railways locomotives to be converted from oil to grease lubrication; Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway for 160 "Ajax" axlebox grease lubricators for converting 2-8-0 and 4-6-0 type lubricators from oil to grease lubrication; as well as four Nicholsan thermic syphons fer feur locemetives under constructien by Messrs. Thunes Mek. Verkested of Oslo, for the Norwegian State Railways, and four Nicholson thermic syphons for four 4-6-2 locomotives under construction by the Vulcan Feundry Limited fer the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway.

The L.M.S. Railway orders. 336
With Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company for 30 fifty-ton bogie bolster trucks; Hurst, Nelson and Co. Ltd., Motherwell, fer 30 twenty-ton double bolster trucks; Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company, Birmingham, 60 twenty-ton double bolster trucks; and Chas. Roberts & Co. Wakefield, far 60 twenty-ton double bolster trucks.

No. 543 (15 November)

The "EAST Anglian" trains L. & N.E.R.. 339-41. 3 illus., diagr. (s. el.), plan.
Mainly about rolling stock and train times which were far from fast. No. 2859 East Anglian illustrated

The Paris Exhibition. 344-7, 4 illus.

New Post Office sorting vans, L.M.S. Railway. 364-5.
Stanier-dessigned vehicles built at Wolverton. Interior painted a "special shade of green to avoid eye-strain"

Derens, L. The Dutch State Railways Company. 365-7. 2 illus., table.
Table lists the 54 locomotives and 17 tram engines taken over from the Rhenish Railway on 14 October 1890 (all were fully described in Locomotive, 1920). Two further former Rhenish Railway locomotives illustrated: Fig. 47 shows 2-2-2T No. 38 (SS No. 1038) rebuilt in 1869-73 from tender engines at Utrecht, and Fig. 48 shows 2-4-0T No. 72 in original condition.

Early Eastern Counties locomotives. 367-9. 6 diagrs. (s. els.), table.
Continued from page 298 (August): Jones & Potts 2-4-0 No. 97 was altered like No. 94.

Diesel locomotives for China. 369. illus.
0-4-0 for 2 ft gauge built in China.