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Anonymous: “MIDLAND RLY. LOCOMOTIVE No. 1, 1859.” Fig. 134 in Ernest L. Ahrons, The British Steam Railway Locomotive, 1825–1925, London: The Locomotive Publishing Company Limited, and New York: Spon & Chamberlain, 1927, p. 113.

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Chapter IX — 1855–59
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     1860-65   145
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     2-2-2 Express Engines: Inside Cylinders.—[...]
     The standard Midland Express engine, as built at Derby, 1856 to 1861, is shown by Fig. 134. It had 6ft. 8in. driving wheels, 15ft. 6in. wheel base equally divided, and 16in. by 22in. cylinders. Although Matthew Kirtley from 1852 onwards always used outside plate frames and flush fire-box casings for his goods engines, the passenger engines had sandwich frames and raised fire-box casings. The driving horns, as in Sharp’s engines, were very short, but unlike Sharp’s, were united by stiff rectangular tie bars. The weight in working order varied from 28 to 28½ tons.
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FIG. 134—MIDLAND RLY. LOCOMOTIVE No. 1, 1859
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     Cabs.—The elaborate “American” cab on Stephenson’s engine of 1860 (Fig. 186 ante) might be expected to have been received with favour, but that was far from being the case. There were two obstacles. Many locomotive superintendents considered that if drivers were made too comfortable some were prone to fall asleep on duty, but it is also true that the drivers themselves objected to being closed in. They were a hardy lot in those days. The usual protection consisted merely of a flat weatherboard placed at the back on the top of the fire-box casing. On the Midland Railway in 1863 some boys threw bricks down from an overbridge at Loughborough, severely injuring a driver, after which M. Kirtley gave better protection by bending the top of the weatherboard completely over the footplate, supporting it at the back by means of two columns. This form of weatherboard rattled when the engine was running, and the twenty engines or so fitted with it were known as the “drummers.” The drivers objected strongly to it, and asked for its removal. A compromise was reached whereby the weatherboard was bent over part only of the footplate and was not supported by pillars. This arrangement, shown in Fig[s.] 134[, 184, 203, 216, 217, 244 and 264], was standard on the Midland until 1872.

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