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Anonymous: “M. KIRTLEY’S GOODS ENGINE FOR THE MIDLAND RAILWAY, 1863-69.” FIG. 203 in Ernest L. Ahrons, The British Steam Railway Locomotive, 1825–1925, London: The Locomotive Publishing Company Limited, and New York: Spon & Chamberlain, 1927, p. 158.

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     1860-65   157
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     Six-coupled Goods Engines.—Fig. 202 shows the engine sent by Sharp, Stewart and Co. to the London Exhibition of 1862, and afterwards exported to Egypt. Six similar engines were built for the London, Chatham and Dover Railway. It is illustrated to show the solid slotted-out outside plate frames, a design immediately afterwards adopted by M. Kirtley on the Midland Railway. The inside frames extended from front to back buffer beams, whereas in Kirtley’s engines of 1863-65 they stopped short at the fire-box, and retained the old defect of causing the draw-bar pull to be retained through the latter.
     Sharp’s engine had 17in. by 24in. cylinders, 5ft. wheels, and 120 lb. pressure; wheel base, 15ft. 6in., equally divided. The fire-box was of

158   The British Steam Railway Locomotive from 1825 to 1925
the Cudworth type, with long sloping grate and two fire-doors; grate area, 27.5 square feet; total heating surface, 1192 square feet; weight of engine in working order, 32 tons.
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              FIG. 202—GOODS ENGINE FOR EGYPT BY SHARP, STEWART & CO., 1862.
     One of Kirtley’s Midland engines of the 1863-69 period, with 5ft. 2in. wheels and 16½in. by 24in. cylinders, is illustrated in Fig. 203. From 1860 onwards the Midland engines carried 140 lb. pressure.
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FIG. 203—M. KIRTLEY’S GOODS ENGINE FOR THE MIDLAND RAILWAY, 1863-69.
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     1866-69   177
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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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