After the completion of the Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad high-speed line on 1 July 2012 the top operating speed was raised to 200 km / h and the national top speed record of 197 km / h set between Iskar and Elin Pelin with a leased Siemens Taurus electric locomotive is soon expected to be broken.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a " locomotive of women's history " and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

In 1878, Ephraim Shay perfected his Shay locomotive, which was particularly effective in its ability to climb steep grades, maneuver sharp turns and manage imperfections in railroad tracks.

Cadillac was home to the Michigan Iron Works Company, which manufactured the Shay locomotive for a short time in the early 1880s.

The British A4 class steam locomotive No. 4496 ( renumbered 60008 ) Golden Shuttle was renamed Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1946.

This steam locomotive dating from the 1930s still operates, carrying both freight and tourists. As of 1999, there was a total of 317 kilometres of ( narrow gauge ) rail line in Eritrea.

This locomotive could haul 30 tons of coal up a hill at, and was the first successful flanged-wheel adhesion locomotive: its traction depended only on the contact between its flanged wheels and the rail.

A six-wheeled locomotive was built for the Kilmarnock and Troon Railway in 1817 but it was soon withdrawn from service because of damage to the cast iron rails.

A further locomotive was supplied to Scott's Pit railroad at Llansamlet, near Swansea in 1819 but it too was soon withdrawn, apparently because it was under-boilered and also because of damage to the track.

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.

It was the first time passenger traffic had been run on a steam locomotive railway.

Stephenson had ascertained by experiments at Killingworth that half of the power of the locomotive was consumed by a gradient as little as 1 in 260.

The inquiry into the accident found that the primary cause of the crash was " the very unsatisfactory condition of the permanent way ", being the poor fastening of the track, causing the track to spread and allowing the left front wheel of the locomotive to come off the rail.

It was also used in single-bank locomotive engines, and is still used for marine propulsion engines and marine auxiliary generators.

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

Karl Benz was born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, in Karlsruhe, Baden, which is part of modern Germany, to Josephine Vaillant and a locomotive driver, Johann George Benz, whom she married a few months later.

Although the locomotive hauled a train of 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers in five wagons over nine miles ( 14 km ), it was too heavy for the cast iron rails used at the time.

The locomotive only ran three trips before it was abandoned.

The first commercially successful steam locomotive was Matthew Murray's rack locomotive, Salamanca, built for the narrow gauge Middleton Railway in 1812.

This was followed in 1813 by the Puffing Billy built by Christopher Blackett and William Hedley for the Wylam Colliery Railway, the first successful locomotive running by adhesion only.

Though the Rocket was not the first steam locomotive, it was the first to bring together several innovations to produce the most advanced locomotive of its day.

In 1830, Robert designed Planet, a much more advanced locomotive than Rocket.

There are no more Conrail-painted SD80MACs remaining on CSX or NS This engine type is also known as the Conrail Cadillac as they were Conrail's final and most advanced locomotive.

With services on the Brill – Quainton Road route now drawn by the more advanced Bagnall locomotive ( the Kingswood branch generally remained worked by horses, and occasionally by the Aveling and Porter engines ), traffic levels soon rose.

The Kylchap was not the only advanced steam locomotive exhaust: another design, the Lemaître, had some success in France and England ; noted Argentinian engineer Livio Dante Porta designed several, the Kylpor, Lempor and Lemprex designs ; and several U. S. railroads including the Norfolk & Western used a concentric nozzle known as the waffle iron exhaust.

The company is best known for producing the Shay geared logging steam locomotive, and for being the home of William E. Woodard's " Super Power " advanced steam locomotive concept – exemplified by the prototype 2-8-4 Berkshire, Lima demonstrator A-1.

The C62 has achieved a level of fame due in part to the Manga / anime series Galaxy Express 999, in which the Express is pulled by an advanced Space locomotive that is built to replicate a C62.

A more advanced safety device was available, the Reset Safety Control ( RSC ), required crew members to take an action such as pushing a button at regular intervals, or else automatic braking would occur, but neither lead locomotive was equipped with this safety feature.

The advanced design of the locomotive led to the GWR introducing the GWR 6000 Class in order to regain the title lost by their GWR Castle class locomotives when the Lord Nelsons were constructed.

There are replicas of one broad-gauge 2-2-2 locomotive ( De Arend ) and three carriages in the Dutch Railway Museum in Utrecht.

' LNWR 2-2-2 3020 Cornwall | 3020 Cornwall ', an early LNWR express locomotive ( circa 1860 )

The LB & SCR achieved early fame as the first railway to make use of the Jenny Lind 2-2-2 locomotive in 1847, designed by David Joy, the Chief Draughtsman of the E. B. Wilson and Company of Leeds, which was later widely used by other railways.

* Electra, a Great Western Railway Firefly class 2-2-2 locomotive

In England, it had developed from the 2-2-2 design of Stephenson's first Long Boiler locomotive, around 1840, which he had altered to place two pairs of wheels at the front with the outside cylinders between them to improve stability.

Armstrong developed the 2-2-2 as his preferred express locomotive, producing 30 of the Sir Daniel class from 1866 and 21 of the Queen class from 1873.

The first steam locomotive made by Borsig of Berlin in 1841, the Borsig No 1, was an 4-2-2, but the company quickly reverted to the more common 2-2-2 configuration.

The London & North Western Railway Cornwall locomotive was designed at Crewe Works as a 4-2-2 by Francis Trevithick in 1847, but was rebuilt as a 2-2-2 in 1858.

* CP 1-D Luiz I, a 2-2-2 locomotive, built by Beyer-Peacock in 1862 for the Portuguese Royal Train.

The prototype locomotive, Great Western, was built as a 2-2-2 locomotive in April 1846, but was soon converted to a 4-2-2 arrangement, with the leading wheels set rigidly within the sandwich framing, rather than in a separate bogie.

It was rebuilt as a 2-2-2 tender locomotive in 1884.

During 1846-7 Alexander Allan of the newly created London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) created the ' Crewe type ' of locomotive, with 2-2-2 for passenger classes and 2-4-0 for freight.

David Joy, the Chief Draughtsman of E. B. Wilson and Company, was asked to visit Brighton railway works to make tracings of the drawings of a 2-2-2 locomotive designed by John Gray for the railway so that ten further examples could be built.

Two 2-2-2 engines were built by the railway's engineer James McConnell in 1844, then he obtained the directors ' permission to build a new locomotive for the Lickey Incline.

The first locomotive to be constructed at Brighton was a 2-2-2, No. 14.