Cambrian Railways 4-4-0 Locomotives
The Cambrian Railways 4-4-0 locomotives consisted of five tender locomotive classes introduced between 1878 and 1921. Three of them were designed for the Cambrian Railways and supplied new, the fourth class was rebuilt from 4-4-0 tank locomotives, and the fifth consisted of secondhand purchases. Altogether 37 locomotives were owned by the Cambrian at one time or another, of which 35 passed to the Great Western Railway (GWR) at the start of 1922. The last was withdrawn in 1933. In addition there was a class of six 4-4-0 tank locomotives introduced in 1905, four of which were not rebuilt as tender locomotives. They all passed to the GWR, and the last were withdrawn in 1923. None of these locomotives were preserved, but another locomotive from the same class as the six 4-4-0 tank locomotives was preserved. Small Bogie Passenger class, or 16 class This class comprised six locomotives, built in pairs by Sharp, Stewart and Company between 1878 and 1891. The first two were named: no. 1 ...
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Cambrian Railways Locomotive - Project Gutenberg EText 20074
The Cambrian ( ) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 51.95 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran period 538.8 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Ordovician Period 486.85 Ma. Most of the continents lay in the southern hemisphere surrounded by the vast Panthalassa, Panthalassa Ocean. The assembly of Gondwana during the Ediacaran and early Cambrian led to the development of new Convergent boundary, convergent plate boundaries and Volcanic arc, continental-margin arc magmatism along its margins that helped drive up global temperatures. Laurentia lay across the equator, separated from Gondwana by the opening Iapetus Ocean. The Cambrian marked a profound change in Life, life on Earth; prior to the Period, the majority of living organisms were small, Unicellular organism, unicellular and poorly preserved. Complex, multicellular organisms gradually became more common during the Ediacaran, but it ...
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