The first applications of the steam locomotive were on wagon or plate ways ( as they were then often called from the cast-iron plates used ).

Limited facilities are available at Whitby station itself, and to run around its train all passengers must be detrained and the locomotive must propel ( push ) the coaching stock out of the station into a siding with a run round loop by the old engine shed, then run round before propelling the stock back into the station with the locomotive at the Grosmont end of the train, ready to depart.

He then used it as the chassis for a locomotive constructed to Trevithick's pattern with a single cylinder and a simple straight through fire tube to the boiler.

* ARR GP7 # 1801 was sold to a locomotive leasing company in Kansas City, MO, then sold to the Missouri Central Railroad and operated as MOC # 1800.

Of course the locomotive would then become trapped, but as it passes the section break, the pantograph will briefly short the two catenary lines together.

The sudden loss, and then reconnection to the supply over the neutral section might cause damage to the locomotive if it was drawing power-so special signs are set up to warn the crew.

The NRM was established on its present site, the former York North locomotive depot, in 1975, when it took over the former British Railways collection located in Clapham and the York Railway Museum located elsewhere in the city ; since then, the collection has continued to grow.

The Southern line was reserved for the special opening train, drawn by the locomotive Northumbrian and conveying the Duke of Wellington, then Prime Minister, in an ornamental carriage, together with distinguished guests in other carriages ( including Huskisson ).

American Dock operated electric locomotives utilizing overhead trolley wire, while Pouch Terminal was first switched by a gas mechanical locomotive, then a Mack Diesel which has been preserved and now residing at Allaire State Park in New Jersey.

This then was what became understood as a " Mallet " locomotive: an articulated locomotive in which the rear set of driving wheels were fixed in the main frame of the locomotive ; a Bissell truck carrying a second set of driving carrying wheels ; and compounding in which the high pressure cylinders drove the axles on the main frame and the Bissell truck axles were driven by low pressure steam.

The lightly laid track with longitudinal sleepers limited the locomotive weight to a maximum of nine tons, lighter than almost all locomotives then available, and it was thus not possible to use standard locomotives.

 Until the St. Pancras extension was complete, and for some time afterwards, some trains exchanged the locomotive at Kentish Town for one fitted with condensing apparatus and continued to Moorgate station, then named Moorgate Street station.

The first practical AC electric locomotive was designed by Charles Brown, then working for Oerlikon, Zürich.

The company acquired the locomotive business of H. K. Porter, Inc in 1950 and from then on produced Porter designs as well as its own.

Most were used by a variety of industrial users, but some railroads also bought Davenport locomotives, particularly of the 44-ton size, that being the largest locomotive then allowed by union rules to be operated by one man.

In 1836 Wolverton was chosen as the site of the locomotive repair shop at the midpoint of the London and Birmingham Railway then under construction.

Stephenson township named for Robert Stephenson, son of George Stephenson of locomotive fame, Robert Stephenson designed the Victoria Tubular Bridge at Montreal, then the greatest Canadian bridge.

When K-Line fell upon hard times in recent years, it was purchased by Lionel LLC, who then got the Flyer track as well as the tooling for two 0 gauge locomotive designs ; the UP Big-Boy and the C & O Allegheny.

None of that would do in a railroad locomotive ; however, there was no diesel engine suitable for that purpose then.

Garratt began his engineering career by serving an apprenticeship under John Carter Park, then locomotive superintendent of the North London Railway, from 1879-1882 at the North London Railway Bow works.

On the maiden run, Crump and Pearce try to block a crossing, first with their lorry and then with a passing steam roller operated by Harry Hawkins ( Sid James ), but the steam locomotive is too powerful and pushes them off the track.

Stephenson designed his first locomotive in 1814, a travelling engine designed for hauling coal on the Killingworth wagonway, and named Blücher after the Prussian general Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher.

In September 1825 the works at Forth Street, Newcastle completed the first locomotive for the new railway: originally named Active, it was soon renamed Locomotion.

A locomotive was named after Josiah Wedgwood and ran on the Churnet Valley Railway.

* Columbia, another name for the 2-4-2 classification of steam locomotives, named for an early locomotive of this type called Columbia

At the site of what was originally the Johann D. C. Thiessen mansion and ranch, now Locomotive Park, so named because of the retired locomotive Steam Engine 92 and Camas Prairie RR Caboose on display in the middle, large trees and pathways are decorated with lights from Thanksgiving to New Year's.

* Meld, the name of a British Rail Class 55 locomotive, named after a racehorse

The 1831 DeWitt Clinton locomotive was named in his honor.

Preserved Class 7 locomotive No. 70000, built in 1951, was also named Britannia.

A 38 tonne 0-6-0 saddle-tank steam locomotive named " Robert " is displayed in Meridian Square, the forecourt of Stratford Station.

There is a locomotive at the Bure Valley Railway in Norfolk which is named after Wroxham Broad.

In addition to the town of Haskell, the South Florida Railroad's # 6 locomotive was named the E. B. Haskell.

It was founded as a railroad stop in North Louisiana and named after the daughter of an locomotive engineer.

The Omaha and Republican Valley Railroad, reached the town in 1879 and named a locomotive after the city, however it was ultimately renamed the number " 9.

The company's very first steam locomotive, built in the U. S. A., was named " The Best Friend of Charleston ", and it made its first run from Charleston to Hamburg, S. C., in December 1833.

Six Union Army soldiers who hijacked a Confederate locomotive named the, General in 1862, were the first Medal of Honor recipients ; James J. Andrews, a civilian, led the raid.

Neither the two convicts nor the only railway worker left on the train, a locomotive hostler named Sara, are aware of their situation ( the convicts having taken refuge inside the fourth unit's toilet compartment, Sara having been asleep in the second unit ).

The railroad's first locomotive, named " Gov.

A new design for a 0-4-2 side tank locomotive was prepared by the railway's Chief Engineer John Bate, which reused the chassis and boiler from the locomotive with a new superstructure and the addition of trailing wheels, and the new locomotive, officially named Tom Rolt after the Preservation Society's first chairman, was put into service on 6 May 1991.

In gratitude for his service, an early British locomotive engineer named a locomotive after him, and Oxford University granted him an honorary doctorate ( Doctor of Laws ), about which he is supposed to have said that if he was made a doctor they should at least make Gneisenau an apothecary.

In 1990 a diesel locomotive in the British Rail fleet was named ' The William Booth '.

* LNER Class A4 60034 Lord Faringdon, a steam locomotive that was at one point named Peregrine