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Baguley Valve Gear
The Baguley valve gear is a type of steam engine valve gear invented by Ernest E. Baguley, the Chief Draughtsman of the W.G. Bagnall company of locomotive manufacturers and patented in 1893. It was used by Bagnall during Baguley's time there, then by his own company of Baguley Cars Ltd. History The valve gear was invented by Ernest E. Baguley, the Chief Draughtsman of the W.G. Bagnall company of locomotive manufacturers and patented in 1893. A modified version was introduced in 1895 which eliminated a curved link. Following Baguley's departure from Bagnall's in 1901 that company developed the Bagnall–Price valve gear which was primarily based on Walschaerts valve gear. Baker identifies one common feature retained from Baguley in Bagnall–Price: "the application of the lap and lead motion by oscillating the expansion link (or sector) bodily, and thus superimposing this motion on the. normal die block travel, the lead remaining constant in all positions of the gear." ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baguley Valve Gear On Rishra
Baguley ( ) is an area and electoral ward of the city of Manchester, in Greater Manchester, England. The population at the 2011 census was 14,794. The name ''Baguley'' is derived from the Old English words ''bagga'' (badger, or possibly referring simply to any woodland or hill-inhabiting wild animal) and ''lēah'' (clearing or meadow). Historically in Cheshire, Baguley is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was incorporated into Manchester in 1931. History Baguley is recorded in the Domesday Book with 1.5 ploughlands (one ploughland being the amount of land that can be ploughed by a team of eight oxen). In 1086, the tenants in chief were Gilbert (the hunter) and Hamon de Masci. The Barons de Masci also had control over the manors of Dunham, Bowdon, Hale, Partington and Timperley. In the 13th century, the Massey Family (Baron Hamon deMascy) was the main landlord in Northenden. Through marriage, the Massey family's land in Baguley passed to the Baguley Family, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crankpin
A crankpin or crank pin, also known as a rod bearing journal, is a mechanical device in an engine which connects the crankshaft to the connecting rod for each cylinder. It has a cylindrical surface, to allow the crankpin to rotate relative to the "big end" of the connecting rod. The most common configuration is for a crankpin to serve one cylinder. However, many V engines have each crankpin shared by each pair of cylinders. Design The crankpin connects to the larger end of the connecting rod for each cylinder. This end of the connecting rod is called the "big end", as opposed to the "small end" or "little end" (which connects to the wrist/gudgeon pin in the piston). The bearing which allows the crankpin to rotate around its shaft is called the "rod bearing". In automotive engines, the most common type of rod bearing is the plain bearing, however bushings or roller bearings are also used in some engines. Configurations In a single-cylinder engine, straight engine or fla ... [...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] |
Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway (LBLR) is a light railway in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire, England. It operates on narrow-gauge track and is just under long. The line was built after the First World War to serve sand quarries north of the town. In the late 1960s the quarries switched to road transport and the railway was taken over by volunteers, who now run the line as a heritage railway. History Sand extraction A bed of Lower Cretaceous sand across Bedfordshire has been quarried on a small scale for centuries. The most significant occur around Leighton Buzzard. In the 19th century sand was carried by horse carts from quarries south of the town to be shipped on the Dunstable-Leighton Buzzard railway. The carts damaged roads and resulted in claims for compensation against the quarry owners from Bedfordshire County Council. At the end of the century steam wagons were introduced which increased the damage to roads. The outbreak of the First World War cut off suppli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rishra (locomotive)
''Rishra'' (works number 2007) was built in 1921 by Baguley Cars Ltd. Following a working life in India it is now preserved at the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway, Bedfordshire, England. It is the one of only 31 Baguley steam locomotives built. History Baguley Cars Ltd took the order on 7 July 1919 for their works number 2007 locomotive and delivered in on 28 November 1921 to Light Railways Ltd. The locomotive was used by the Calcutta Corporation for shunting coal wagons at a water pumping station in Barrackpore, India. Left abandoned in undergrowth, it was rescued in 1963 by Michael Satow, a senior executive of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), who had the locomotive restored at the Hooghly Docking and Engineering Company, Rishra, Kolkata (Calcutta). It was repatriated to the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in England by Satow in 1971. It is one of only four preserved locomotives fitted with Baguley valve gear, similar to the Bagnall-Price gear which was adopted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Rail Museum, New Delhi
The National Rail Museum in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, displays exhibits on the history of rail transport in India. The museum was inaugurated on 1 February 1977. The museum spans over an area of over and the indoor gallery comprises an octagonal building which houses six display galleries and a large open area is laid out to simulate the atmosphere of a railway yard. It is open every day except Mondays and national holidays. History A ''Transport Museum'' was first proposed in 1962, under the advice of rail enthusiast Michael Graham Satow. The proposal took a concrete shape in 1970 and on 7 October 1971 the foundation stone was laid at the museum's present site in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, by the then-President of India, V. V. Giri. The museum was inaugurated as the ''Rail Transport Museum'' in 1977 by Kamalapati Tripathi, the minister for public transportation. The museum was originally intended to be a part of a larger museum that covered the history of railways ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amerton Railway
The Amerton Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway A heritage railway or heritage railroad (U.S. usage) is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period (or periods) ... in the England, English county of Staffordshire. It is owned by Staffordshire Narrow Gauge Railway Limited, a registered charity, and operated by volunteers. Construction of the railway started in 1990 in a field at the side of Amerton Working Farm. The first trains ran in 1992, but it was around 10 years later when the railway was completed as a full circle with two passing Loops. The collection of locomotives is primarily focused around locomotives that were either built or operated in Staffordshire. Development of the line There is the main 3 road running shed housing majority of the locomotives, operational and stored, a large workshop next door where restoration and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pivot
Pivot may refer to: *Pivot, the point of rotation in a lever system *More generally, the center point of any rotational system *Pivot joint, a kind of joint between bones in the body *Pivot turn, a dance move Companies *Incitec Pivot, an Australian chemicals and explosives manufacturer * Pivot Legal Society, a legal advocacy organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia * Pivot Wireless, a cell phone service, created by a joint venture between Sprint and multiple cable companies Computing *Apache Pivot, an open-source platform for building applications in Java * Microsoft Live Labs Pivot, a data search application *Morrow Pivot and Morrow Pivot II, early laptop computers *Pivot, an element of the quicksort algorithm * Pivot display, a display which can change orientation * Pivot Stickfigure Animator, stick-figure animation software *Pivot table, a data summarization tool in spreadsheets *Pivotal Games, a former UK video game developer *Pivoting, a computer security exploit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Connecting Rod
A connecting rod, also called a 'con rod', is the part of a reciprocating engine, piston engine which connects the piston to the crankshaft. Together with the crank (mechanism), crank, the connecting rod converts the reciprocating motion of the piston into the rotation of the crankshaft. The connecting rod is required to transmit the compressive and tensile forces from the piston. In its most common form, in an internal combustion engine, it allows pivoting on the piston end and rotation on the shaft end. The predecessor to the connecting rod is a mechanic linkage used by water mills to convert rotating motion of the water wheel into reciprocating motion. The most common usage of connecting rods is in internal combustion engines or on steam engines. __TOC__ Origins A connecting rod crank has been found in the Celtic Oppida at Paule in Brittany, dated to 69 BC. The predecessor to the connecting length is the Linkage (mechanical), mechanical linkage used by List of Roman wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coupling Rod
A coupling rod or side rod connects the driving wheels of a locomotive. Steam locomotives in particular usually have them, but some diesel and electric locomotives, especially older ones and shunter locomotives, also have them. The coupling rods transfer the power of drive to all wheels. Development Locomotion No. 1 was the first locomotive to employ coupling rods rather than chains. In the 1930s reliable roller bearing coupling rods were developed. Allowance for vertical motion In general, all railroad vehicles have spring suspension; without springs, irregularities in the track could lift wheels off the rail and cause impact damage to both rails and vehicles. Driving wheels are typically mounted so that they have around 1 inch (2.5 cm) of vertical motion. When there are only 2 coupled axles, this range of motion places only slight stress on the crank pins. With more axles, however, provision must be made to allow each axle to move vertically independently of the ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocking Sector
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Rocking or Rockin may refer to: Music Albums *Rockin' (The Guess Who album) *Rockin' (Frankie Laine album) 1957 Songs *"Hajej, nynjej" Czech children's carol, recorded as "Rocking" by Julie Andrews on ''Christmas with Julie Andrews'', 1982 *"The Rocking Carol", a Christmas carol by Percy Dearmer, 1928 * "Rockin'" (song), song by The Weeknd on ''Starboy'', 2016 *"Rockin'", song by Kid Rock on ''Bad Reputation'' (Kid Rock album), 2022 *"Rockin'", song by Pat Travers, 1982 Other uses *Rocking chair *Uprock, the street dance known as "Rocking" See also * Rock and roll * Rock music * * * * King of Rock and Roll (other) for the "Rock King" * Rock and roll (other) * Rock (other) Rock most often refers to: * Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids * Rock music, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to: Places United Kingdom * Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steam Engine
A steam engine is a heat engine that performs Work (physics), mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure to push a piston back and forth inside a Cylinder (locomotive), cylinder. This pushing force can be transformed by a connecting rod and Crank (mechanism), crank into rotational force for work. The term "steam engine" is most commonly applied to reciprocating engines as just described, although some authorities have also referred to the steam turbine and devices such as Hero's aeolipile as "steam engines". The essential feature of steam engines is that they are external combustion engines, where the working fluid is separated from the combustion products. The ideal thermodynamic cycle used to analyze this process is called the Rankine cycle. In general usage, the term ''steam engine'' can refer to either complete steam plants (including Boiler (power generation), boilers etc.), such as railway steam locomot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
