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> -----Original Message----- > From: All aspects of railways, past, present and future. > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Cocks > Sent: 05 June 2005 14:29 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Unidentified Locomotive > > > 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