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> Sent: 05 June 2005 14:29
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> Subject: Unidentified Locomotive
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>
> Carolyn,
>
> The locomotive pictured on your link
> http://fauxtoys.com/mysterian.gif appears to be one of the
> two 4 ft gauge locomotives supplied to the
> Padarn Railway, Llanberis, North Wales in 1848 by A. Horlock & Co of
> Northfleet Ironworks, Kent, UK. The Padarn Railway ran from the
> Dinorwic Quarry near Llanberis to Porth Dinorwic on the Menai Straits
> near Caernarfon. The locomotives were named 'Fire Queen'
> (which still
> exits at Penrhyn Castle museum, Bangor North Wales) and 'Jenny Lind'
> (which is possibly the locomotive in your picture.)
>
> A photo of 'Fire Queen' is here (not mine I hasten to add)
>
http://www.narrow-gauge.co.uk/gallery/show.php?image_id=1380&cat_id=152
<http://www.narrow-gauge.co.uk/gallery/show.php?image_id=1380&cat_id=152
>
Hope this is of some help
Jon Cocks
This is correct. The picture has been published before. Jenny Lind had a
cab; Fire Queen doesn't, and maybe never did have one. I have seen these
locos described as 'Cramptons', of a freight type, I think because the
rear axle is behind the firebox. If so, Fire Queen is the only Crampton
surviving in the UK. Note also the absence of a mainframe: the boiler
takes all the stresses! Also, it appears to have Stephenson's valve gear
hung in reverse and driven off the front axle; an arrangement that was
later patented by Fletcher Jennings, I believe!
Peter EXcell
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