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	Thomas Crampton
		Crampton seems to have played an auxiliary role in this struggle, but at the time he was harbouring thoughts which his employers would have regarded as treacherous, as his ambition was to build a 4ft 8½ in.
		Crampton also realized that the performance of the Gooch locomotives was largely a result of the greater heating surface which could be installed in the bigger and broader machines.
		Crampton was involved with dummy-crankshaft designs wherein the cylinders drove onto a crankshaft normally situated between the driving wheels.
	www.steamindex.com /people/crampton.htm (1299 words)

	Crampton Tower Museum Broadstairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Crampton's work was recognised by Napoleon III in 1855 when he became Officer of the Legion of Honour and in 1885 he became a Knight.
		Crampton's inventions include a furnace for burning powered fuel, revolving furnaces for the manufacture of iron and steel, brick making machinery, cast-iron forts, and an automatic hydraulic tunnel-boring machine upon which, it could be said, modern drilling techniques are based.
		In conjunction with Sir Charles Fox, Crampton was responsible for the construction of the Berlin Waterworks.
	www.cramptontower.co.uk /inventor.htm (771 words)

	The Evolution of Compound Locomotives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		With the "simple" locomotive there is an inevitable wastage of thermal efficiency, due to the fact that when hot high-pressure steam enters the cylinder it undergoes a considerable degree of cooling off by the time that the process of expansion is completed.
		Nicholson's system, which was employed on two locomotives, converted from "simple" working, differed from the general principle subsequently adopted in locomotive compounding in that it made use of what was termed "continuous expansion." the steam being finally exhausted in both the high- and low-pressure cylinders.
		In this form the locomotive was not a success; it is recorded that it had "great difficulty in starting even with one coach behind the tender," and as it fared no better on its occasional trips with Webb's inspection coach, it was scrapped in 1903.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r043.html (3720 words)

	The Evolution of the American Locomotive.--Scientific American Supplement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Crampton engines never came into general use anywhere except in France, where the "système Crampton" was very popular and it is believed that some of the engines are still running.
		Hudson, of the Rogers Locomotive Works, was one of the first to recognize the value of Bissell’s invention, and applied it to a locomotive in 1858.
		In these days of "continuous brakes," it seems remarkable that the early locomotives were absolutely without any retarding mechanism; and even down to the medieval period of railway history, the fastest English trains were run with only a hand brake on the tender, and a similar brake, worked by the guard, in the brake van.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/absa3.Html (3310 words)

	Oddities - Curiosities of Locomotive Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Some of the high wheel Crampton locomotives, built in Europe and in the United States about 1850, had the boilers so small that want of steam reduced the speed before the train had gone five miles, when high speed was attempted.
		Locomotives driven through a supplementary driving axle were very common in the United States, but they were used mostly in the process of evolution.
		Worsdell is of the opinion that it is the oldest locomotive in the world that is daily under steam, for it was built in 1822 and is now regularly used as part of the motive power equipment in the collieries of Sir Lindsay Wood, who is one of the directors of the North Eastern Railway.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/odcuri.Html (6614 words)

	Transactions of the Newcomen Society
		The centenary of the Semmering Railway and its locomotives.
		As well as describing the steam locomotive stock as at the end of steam operation, the paper includes the industrial Beyer-Garratt locomotive operated by Vivian and Son in the vicinity of the railway described.
		Author was involved with fitting system to Beyer-Garratt locomotives supplied to Ecuador and to the Central Railway of Peru, and later was involved in testing the B17 and K3 classes on the LNER using the test locomotive.
	www.steamindex.com /magrack/newcomen.htm (3630 words)

	1816 in rail transport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Richard Trevithick moves to Peru with the intention of designing and building steam locomotives for mining operations there.
		August 6 - Thomas Crampton, English steam locomotive builder (d.
		Thomas Russell Crampton, English engineer and designer of the Crampton locomotive type as well as a tunnel boring machine for the Channel Tunnel (d.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1816_in_rail_transport (182 words)

	The Crampton steam locomotive
		He designed the first high-speed locomotive and chose large power wheels (2.14 metres in diameter) for his steam locomotive.
		With a weight of 20 tons, the Crampton locomotive has three axle-trees (with only one power axle-tree at the back of the locomotive).
		The Crampton locomotive was successfully used in France.
	perso.orange.fr /tgveurofrance.com/traincapitale/cramptonen.htm (189 words)

	An essay on the front-end
		In 1858 he used a little model of a locomotive front end in which he used different combinations of exhaust pipes, chimneys and pipes to the smokebox to draw air through.
		Their results were used for a life test of the multiple chimney system on a Crampton locomotive of the French Nord.
		Apart from these tests Prussmann should be mentioned, in 1860 he tested the distance of orifice to chimney and came to the conclusion that the further away the chimney was removed from the orifice the wider the chimney could be.
	www.trainweb.org /tusp/koopmans/part_1.html (1796 words)

	Stealth Locos & Strange Chimneys.
		Joseph Hamilton Beattie, (1808-71) was Locomotive Superintendant of the LSWR from 1850 to 1871.
		It is a Crampton locomotive; ie it has a single pair of drivers at the rear.
		The Crampton layout, with the driving axle at the rear, allowed the cylinders to be halfway along the boiler and therefore conveniently placed for directing the exhaust up the chimney in the usual way.
	www.dself.dsl.pipex.com /MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/chimney/chimney.htm (1204 words)

	A French Experiment.
		Crampton-type locomotives are distinguished by having a single driving axle behind the firebox, allowing large driving wheels, with correspondingly high axles, to be combined with a large boiler set low in the chassis.
		The great drawback of the Crampton concept was the relatively small amount of the locomotive's weight that was available for adhesion.
		The locomotives were intended for use on severe gradients, but did not fulfil expectations.
	www.dself.dsl.pipex.com /MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/petiet/frexp.htm (1110 words)

	Camden Booklist Page
		The majority of the conventional locomotives were ‘American’ 4-4-0s and were machines of a rare beauty, but from 1872 Mason started building his famous “Bogies” (effectively Single Fairlies) in various gauges and wheel arrangements, and became the first American user of Walschaert’s valve gear in the process.
		A locomotive “with the characteristics of a superstructure on two steam driven bogies”, the Kitson Meyers’ great strength was that it really was ultra-flexible, and could cope with continuous curvature which defeated other articulateds, including Garratts and geared locos.
		The Southern’s Passenger locomotives, and especially the Ps-4 class, have a legitimate claim on being the most beautiful of all American steam locomotives, in part due to their British inspired livery - I always though this came from the British Southern Railway, but here the LNER is given the honour.
	www.camdenmin.co.uk /SemiTechDr.htm (4392 words)

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		Just as locomotives are different in structure so that they may operate successfully under different conditions, so the definite characteristics of living things are exactly what they should be in order that organisms may be adjusted or fitted into the places in nature which they occupy.
		The leg of the frog is an organ of locomotion, the heart is a device for pumping blood, the stomach accomplishes digestion, while the brain and nerves keep the parts working in harmony and also provide for the proper relation of the whole creature to its environment.
		Even though an organism is so much more complex than a locomotive, and so plastic, nevertheless, in so far as both are mechanisms, the conception of the evolution of the former may be much more readily understood through a knowledge of the historical transformation of the latter.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16442/16442.txt (20152 words)

	History of Lenox Instrument Company 1940-1950
		Crampton and his employees would work late into the night peering into the bores of 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and other weapons
		The army also used the company's borescopes extensively for inspecting the gun barrels of tanks, and the anti-aircraft weapons, which were being produced at the Baldwin Locomotive Works in Philadelphia.
		Dr. Crampton and employee John Lang played a small part in the course of history by helping to develop the first atomic bomb.
	www.lenoxinst.com /About_History_3_Borescopes.html (652 words)

	W&H MAIN YARDS: Steam Locomotive Wheel Arrangements
		All the locomotives listed here actually operated at one time or another on a North American railroad.
		In this system,non-powered axles are given as numbers and powered axles are given as letters.There is no standard system of classification for geared locomotives such as Shays, Heislers and Climaxes.
		Arrangement Name Notes ___----------------------------------------------------------------- 0-2-2-0 The locomotives of the Mt. Washington Cog Railroad are examples of this type.
	www.spikesys.com /Trains/wyte_sys.html (842 words)

	myLargescale.com - Build the CP Huntington - All About Your Garden Railroad & G Scale Trains
		You have learned so far that the value of the Single, and its rebirth as a locomotive of note, is almost entirely due to the successes of the Daniel Gooch Singles of the GWR in the UK, 1840s-50s.
		Working under Gooch, Crampton took the Gooch ideals to their limit and developed the ultimate Single; a locomotive with driving wheels of huge proportions and the lowest slung boiler ever.
		Another novel feature of the loco was a steam driven system of beams and fulcrums attached to the equalised running gear of the loco, that could effectively alter the distribution of load over the wheels, providing greater weight over the drive wheel when needed, and reducing load when the loco was running at speed.
	www.mylargescale.com /articles/masterclass/cphuntington/bkgrnd/CPH_CH1B_07.asp (939 words)

	News-January to June 2003
		The locomotive was conveyed from London to Westbury in the Friday evening empty aggregate train 7C20 19.18 Acton Yard-Merehead.
		The locomotive was tripped to Yeovil Junction by another class 59 early on the Saturday morning.
		The locomotive is photographed at Plymouth station having reversed the generator coach on to the rear of the train.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /diesels/news/200301to06news.htm (972 words)

	Transport Diversions Emporium - Titles On TOPICS INCAGNEY`S LOCOMOTIVE WORKS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Railway opened in 1881 with 3' 6” gauge British locomotives, but under the guidance of E R Calthrop reopened again 17 years later as a 2' 6” gauge line with three types of...
		Over 200 of the steam locomotives now preserved in Britain have either worked overseas or were supplied to British companies from abroad to operate in the UK.
		With nostalgia for the age of steam showing no signs of abating, this facsimile reprint of a classic Ian Allan Publishing 'abc' makes available once again one of the most popular volumes in the series, and is an exercise in pure nostalgia for the thousands of enthusiasts who belonged to the Ian...
	www.transportdiversions.com /catalog.asp?likepubid=2110 (622 words)

	The Story of the Southern Railway
		The locomotive, which has attained a total mileage of over one and a half millions, operates in the Isle of Wight, and is here seen at Brading.
		This locomotive, which was the second to leave the Stephenson factory, was similar in general design to the "Rocket," save that its four wheels were coupled.
		One of these was Thomas Russell Crampton, the locomotive engineer of "low centre of gravity" fame, and the designer of the "Liverpool" and many other historic engines.
	mikes.railhistory.railfan.net /r056.html (5711 words)

	NA62 text
		Cramptons were used in France for more than 40 years to pull light express trains.
		Braking is very important on mountains so they are especially equipped with standard locomotive brakes, and a band brake on a drum which is carried on a shaft driving the pinion.
		The museum also houses a beautiful blue engine known as the Mallard which is a Pacific class locomotive and is famous not only for its shape but also because it set a world record in 1938 of a hundred and twenty six miles an hour on a test run between Grantham and Peterborough.
	www.comp.lancs.ac.uk /computing/users/nick/LCWP/downloads/transcripts/62/NA62TEXT.SGM (7210 words)

	General Railway Titles
		Over 200 of the steam locomotives now preserved in Britain have either worked overseas or were supplied to...
		Manning Wardle made distinctive steam locomotives at their works in the Leeds suburb of Hunslet until being absorbed...
		Reprint of an official handbook issued for the education of, and day-to-day, use by BR enginemen in the...
	www.saxoncourtbooks.co.uk /railwaybooks/cat19_1.htm (934 words)

	The John Stevens
		This locomotive was named for an energetic Revolutionary War Veteran, John Stevens, who was one of the first men to promote railroads in the United States.
		The First Pacific 4-6-2 wheel arrangement locomotive built for the Pennsylvania was completed in 1907 and from that date to 1913, a total of 271 Pacific type locomotives of 5 different designs were built.
		This locomotive combined the best features of the previous designs with the addition of what was then new thinking in the art of locomotive building.
	www.railroadtreasures.com /Prints.htm (1078 words)

	Phila PRRTHS - The Belpaire Firebox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		The Belpaire firebox (invented by Alfred Jules Belpaire and introduced in 1860) was introduced to the PRR in 1885 when the new Class R, a heavy freight locomotive, rolled out of Juniata in October.
		The first locomotive built after Ely's appointment to Superintendent of Motive Power was the Collin design for the Class I (H1).
		The Belpaire firebox on the first Class R locomotive, No. 400, was not a radical departure from conventional design; it was a natural extension of the "Altoona Boiler".
	www.prrths.com /PRR_Belpaire.html (487 words)

	Live Steam Crampton Locomotive in 1:32 scale
		This was done to give the impression of older style wheels that were generally of lighter construction.
		Because no no original drawings exist, some of the details and dimensions are plausible reconstructions (based on research of better documented Crampton types).
		Overall though, the proportions and major dimensions are faithful to the first batch of Cramptons built by Tulk and Ley in 1846 -1847.
	www.panyo.com /crampton (754 words)

	Steam and the Steam Engine
		The first preface is dated 1872, which I take for the date of the first edition and presumably of at least most of the illustrations.
		This is a version of Plate I in which I have coloured the letters blue, to try to make it easier to follow the description, which I have also repeated here: [more...
		The examples given on page 238 have eight wheels, the general run is six wheels with the large driving wheel in the middle; but in Crampton's arrangement the large driving wheel is behind.
	fromoldbooks.org /Evers-SteamAndTheSteamEngine (417 words)

	Stock code 1471 3 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Excellent 5 inch gauge model of an early "Crampton" type locomotive.
		A patch plate has been made to be soldered over - it will be concealed under the cladding when finished.
		Both this engine and the 7 1/4 inch gauge "Locomotion" came from the estate of an award-winning model engineer who specialised in early locomotives and stationary engines.
	www.stationroadsteam.co.uk /archive/1892.htm (116 words)

	The KylChap exhaust (or blast!) system
		You will even find graphs concerning some major foreign locomotives, U.S. and others.
		At least one curve concerning the LEMAITRE blasting device, used as the basis of the LEMPOR system, I'll someday add a few lines about the latest...
		Locomotive C 139 P.-L.-M. Echappement à double valve à noyau central.
	members.tripod.com /~Norton_DataCAD/frsteaml/kylchap1.htm (525 words)

	Locomotives from various Frenche departments
		Machine express 366 et 382, construite en 1882-1883, transformées en locomotives tender-fourgon en 1928
		Locomotive à vapeur saturée, simple expansion, tiroirs plans intérieurs, pour trains de voyageurs et de marchandises.
		13767 Locomotive Crampton avec son tender, type du Chemin de fer du Nord (année 1858).
	www.vonscheven.net /AAAEnglishPostcardsLocomotivesFrenchDept.asp (701 words)

	Transport Diversions Emporium - Titles On All Subjects Which Reference 'Harman'
		The history, decline and revival of this much-loved scenic branch is illustrated with 120 photographs and numerous maps from the past.
		One of Six volumes of 7 mm drawings of locomotives, reproduced from The Locomotive magazine.
		Published works in English on the railways of the Amazon are rare,and this new book by Fred Harmon will be appreciated by all with an interest in South American Railways.The book covers history of the Madeira Mamore Railway,The Braganca Railway,The Tocantins Railway and the Amapa Railway.It is a...
	www.transportdiversions.com /catalog.asp?searchlist=harman (342 words)

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