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Annie (locomotive)
''Annie'' is a steam locomotive that operates on the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man. Design The replica ''Annie'' was built by Richard Booth to the design of a Bagnall class 'E' locomotive named ''Annie'' which was built in 1911 and shipped to New Zealand to operate the Gentle Annie Tramway near Gisborne. The original ''Annie'' later ended up at a quarry at Motuhora along with another Bagnall engine from the Gentle Annie Tramway, and was buried on the site by a landslide in the late-1950s/early 1960s. Dug up in the late 1970s, the remains of ''Annie'' passed through several owners, and are now owned by the East Coast Museum of Technology at Makaraka near Gisborne, who have prepared what remains of the engine for static display. The replica ''Annie'' was constructed based upon working drawings; mechanically identical to ''Polar Bear'' but with a 0-4-2 wheel arrangement. The cylinder mould was obtained from the Bennett Brook Railway in Australia, where another rep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Groudle Glen Railway
The Groudle Glen Railway is a narrow gauge railway near Onchan in the Isle of Man, on the boundary of Onchan and Lonan (parish), Lonan, which is owned and operated by a small group of enthusiastic volunteers and operates on summer Sundays; May to September and Wednesday evenings in July and August along with a number of annual special events. History ; 1896 – 1939 The line was built in the late Victorian era to cater for a new demand for transport down Groudle Glen after the opening of the Manx Electric Railway. A zoo was built, and the Groudle Glen Railway connected to it. The Narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge line ran from the upper part of the glen, Lhen Coan, to the zoo at Sea Lion Rocks. The line opened on 23 May 1896 and initially operated with a single locomotive, called ''Sea Lion'', and three coaches. The locomotive was built by W.G. Bagnall, W.G. Bagnall Ltd. of Castle Engine Works, Stafford. The line became so popular that a second locomotive, ''Polar Bear'' a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sea Lion (steam Locomotive)
''Sea Lion'' is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive built in 1896 for the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man. History The locomotive was built by W. G. Bagnall & Co., Stafford and delivered in May 1896. It was the railway's only locomotive until it was joined in 1905 by sister locomotive ''Polar Bear''. By the 1920 season the locomotive was deemed too costly for repair and the line purchased two battery electric locomotives that inherited their steam engine names. The modern engines proved to be financially disastrous and within a few years "Sea Lion" had been returned to the works for re-build. It continued to operate the line until closure at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. When the line eventually re-opened in 1950 it was decided to operate with ''Polar Bear'' only owing to a decrease in demand and the poor condition of ''Sea Lion'' which had been stored in the open air for some time. The railway survived until 1962 but by this time ''Sea Lion'' was virtual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Locomotives Introduced In 1998
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam Locomotives Of Great Britain
Steam is water vapor, often mixed with air or an aerosol of liquid water droplets. This may occur due to evaporation or due to boiling, where heat is applied until water reaches the enthalpy of vaporization. Saturated or superheated steam is invisible; however, wet steam, a visible mist or aerosol of water droplets, is often referred to as "steam". When liquid water becomes steam, it increases in volume by 1,700 times at standard temperature and pressure; this change in volume can be converted into mechanical work by steam engines such as reciprocating piston type engines and steam turbines, which are a sub-group of steam engines. Piston type steam engines played a central role in the Industrial Revolution and modern steam turbines are used to generate more than 80% of the world's electricity. If liquid water comes in contact with a very hot surface or depressurizes quickly below its vapour pressure, it can create a steam explosion. Types of steam and conversions Steam is trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Narrow Gauge Railways
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Isle Of Man Steam Railway Supporters' Association
The Isle of Man Steam Railway Supporters' Association Ltd (IoMSRSA) is a railway preservationist group dedicated to ensuring the continued operation of the Isle of Man Railway on the Isle of Man. Since its inception in 1966 the group has provided volunteer workers, acted in a watchdog role and undertaken the restoration of the Groudle Glen Railway on the island, as well as supporting projects on the railway and producing the journal, ''Manx Steam Railway News''. History The group merged with the Mannin Railway Group to form one association in 1966 when the future of the Isle of Man Railway hung in the balance; the railway did not operate any services in that year for the first time since the line to Peel, Isle of Man, Peel was opened in 1873. In 1967 however, the full network (save for the Foxdale Railway which had closed back in 1940) was reopened owing to the intervention of the Archibald Kennedy, 7th Marquess of Ailsa, Marquess of Ailsa who ran services until September 1968; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isle Of Man Railway Locomotives
The locomotives of the Isle of Man Railway were provided exclusively by Beyer, Peacock & Company of Manchester, England between 1873 and 1926; other locomotives that appear on this list were inherited as part of the take-over of the Manx Northern Railway and Foxdale Railway in 1905, when the railway also purchased two more locomotives from Beyer, Peacock. All the steam locomotives have or had the wheel arrangement, apart from No. 15 ''Caledonia'' (built by Dübs & Co. of Glasgow) which is an . In 2024 two modern, small diesel locomotives were acquired secondhand from Bord na Móna in Ireland. No.1 ''Sutherland'' Isle of Man Railway No.1 Sutherland arrived on the Island on 27 March 1873 and was used as a special to convey the Duke of Sutherland, a director of the railway company to Peel on 1 May 1873. No.1 ''Sutherland'' also hauled the first official train to Peel on 1 July 1873. The locomotive is named after the Duke. It remained in service until 1964, albeit latterly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manx Northern Railway
The Manx Northern Railway (MNR) was the second common carrier railway built in the Isle of Man. It was a steam railway between St John's and Ramsey. It operated as an independent concern only from 1879 to 1905. History When the people in the town of Ramsey realised their town was not going to be incorporated into the newly promoted Isle of Man Railway (IOMR) network in the 1870s it was left to them to promote their own railway as a link with the rest of the island. The rugged geography of the east coast forced the Manx Northern Railway into an indirect route: first westwards to Kirk Michael and then south to St John's where a junction could be made with the Isle of Man Railway's Peel to Douglas line which opened in 1873. Built to a common Manx gauge, a narrow gauge, construction began in 1878 and the railway opened for business without formality on 23 September 1879. It was operated by the Isle of Man Railway until 6 November 1880 when the MNR took over the res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brown Bear (locomotive)
''Polar Bear'' is a narrow-gauge steam locomotive built in 1905 by W. G. Bagnall for the Groudle Glen Railway. It is now preserved and runs on the Amberley Museum Railway. Preservation ''Polar Bear'' was sold to the Brockham Museum Trust in 1967. In 1982 it passed, with the rest of the Brockham collection, to the Amberley Museum Railway The Amberley Museum Railway is a Narrow gauge railway, narrow gauge railway based at Amberley Museum & Heritage Centre, Amberley Museum, Amberley, West Sussex, Amberley, West Sussex. It has a varied collection of engines and rolling stock ran ..., where it was returned to traffic in 1983. ''Polar Bears boiler was condemned around 1988, returning to service with a new boiler in 1993. Its boiler certificate expired at the end of 2010; with a retube and work on the firebox being required before a return to service. Since being based at Amberley, ''Polar Bear'' has returned to the Groudle Glen on three occasions (1993, 1996 and 2005) to vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam Locomotive
A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, Fuel oil, oil or, rarely, Wood fuel, wood) to heat water in the locomotive's Boiler (power generation), boiler to the point where it becomes gaseous and its volume increases 1,700 times. Functionally, it is a steam engine on wheels. In most locomotives, the steam is admitted alternately to each end of its Steam locomotive components, cylinders in which pistons are mechanically connected to the locomotive's main wheels. Fuel and water supplies are usually carried with the locomotive, either on the locomotive itself or in a Tender (rail), tender coupled to it. #Variations, Variations in this general design include electrically powered boilers, turbines in place of pistons, and using steam generated externally. Steam locomotives were first developed in the United Kingdom of Great Britain an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
