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Post by CSLR on Apr 4, 2006 14:59:26 GMT
Photo of the Kerr Stuart locomotive 'Brazil' at Stockwell depot as requested. The loco later operated at Morden and on other tube lines.  |
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Post by Phil on Apr 4, 2006 18:36:52 GMT
Excellent CSLR. As has recently been said by another, this forum seems to provide answers to the most unlikely questions, and is quite unique.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2006 19:40:45 GMT
A Question, was it a condesing locomotive? Or a conventional one?
Think of all that steam...
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Post by CSLR on Apr 4, 2006 20:11:59 GMT
A Question, was it a condesing locomotive? Or a conventional one? Think of all that steam... The two Central London steam locomotives were oil-fired and had condensing apparatus but, as far as I know, Brazil did not have a condenser. It actually spent most of its life shunting trucks around the construction sites at Stockwell, Morden, Arnos Grove, Cockfosters and Drapers Field (Central Line). Although it was designed to tube gauge, it appears only to have gone into the tunnels when it really had to. The engineering trains used in the tunnels for the C&SLR reconstruction were pulled by electric locomotives drawing power from withdrawn passenger carriages that were filled with batteries and which were hauled around as part of the works train. |
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Post by Hutch on Apr 7, 2006 6:50:13 GMT
 Here is the fine locomotive mentioned by CSLR. The caption in John Glover’s “London Underground” (9th Ed) p.23 reads … “One of the two tube tunnel gauge 0-6-0T locomotives purchased for the Central London Railway from Hunslet in 1899. They were fitted with condensing apparatus for working in the tunnels after the current was switched off. Both conventional buffing and tube drawgear were fitted. These locomotives were withdrawn in 1923.” |
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