Gaston du Bousquet (1839–1910) was a French

engineer Engineers, as practitioners of engineering, are professionals who invent, design, analyze, build and test machines, complex systems, structures, gadgets and materials to fulfill functional objectives and requirements while considering the l ...

who was Chief of Motive Power () of the

Chemin de Fer du Nord The Chemins de fer du Nord''French locomotive built in 1846''

, designer of locomotives and professor at

École centrale de Lille Located in the campus of Science and Technology (Cité Scientifique) of the University of Lille in Villeneuve-d'Ascq ( European Metropolis of Lille - Hauts-de-France); École Centrale de Lille is a renowned graduate engineering school, with roots ...

Steam locomotive designer

Gaston du Bousquet taught mechanical engineering at the Institut industriel du Nord de la France (

École Centrale de Lille Located in the campus of Science and Technology (Cité Scientifique) of the University of Lille in Villeneuve-d'Ascq ( European Metropolis of Lille - Hauts-de-France); École Centrale de Lille is a renowned graduate engineering school, with roots ...

) from 1872. He was appointed chief engineer to the

Chemins de Fer du Nord The Chemins de fer du Nord''French locomotive built in 1846''

in 1890. He won a gold medal at the Universal Exhibition of 1894. He collaborated successfully with

Alfred de Glehn Alfred George de Glehn (15 September 1848 – 8 June 1936) was a notable English-born French designer of steam locomotives and an engineer with the Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (SACM). His steam engines of the 1890s combined el ...

and Edward Beugniot, both working for the

Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques The Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques (the Alsatian Corporation of Mechanical Engineering), or SACM, is an engineering company with its headquarters in Mulhouse, Alsace, which produced railway locomotives, textile and printing machi ...

(SACM). He was president of the Society of Civil Engineers of France in 1894.

Four-cylinder compound locomotives

He introduced compound (double expansion) steam locomotives to the industrial network with the help of

, engineer to SACM. ;

du Bousquet locomotive The du Bousquet locomotive was an unusual design of articulated steam locomotive invented by French locomotive designer Gaston du Bousquet. The design was a tank locomotive, carrying all its fuel and water on board the locomotive proper, and a co ...

s * Nord 6.121 to 6.168, 28 loaned to the Ceinture, later SNCF 1-031+130.TA.1 to 47 * Ceinture 6.001 to 6.038, later SNCF 3-031+130.TA.1 to 36 He designed among other locomotives: * Nord 2.121 to 2.180 “Chocolat”

4-4-0 4-4-0 is a locomotive type with a classification that uses the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement and represents the arrangement: four leading wheels on two axles (usually in a leading bogie), four po ...

s of 1891–1898 * Nord 2.231 to 2.305 “Revolver” 4-4-4Ts of 1901–1906; later SNCF 2-222.TA * Nord 2.311 to 2.380 “Ravachol” 4-4-0Ts of 1892–1895; later SNCF 2-220.TA * Nord 2.641 to 2.675 Atlantics ( 4-4-2) of 1900–1902, later SNCF 2-221.A * Nord 2.741 Prototype Atlantic of 1907; rebuilt as 4-4-4, rebuilt as

4-6-0 A 4-6-0 steam locomotive, under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, has four leading wheels on two axles in a leading bogie and six powered and coupled driving wheels on three axles with the abse ...

No. 3.999 * Nord 3.081 to 3.302

s of 1897–1910; later SNCF 2-230.A * Nord 3.121 to 3.122 “Metropolitan” 0-6-4Ts of 1892–1893 * Nord 3.513 to 3.537

s of 1908–1910; later SNCF 2-230.D.1 to 149 * Nord 3.801 to 3.860 “Bleriot” 4-6-4Ts of 1909–1910; later SNCF 2-232.TA * Nord 3.1101 and 3.1102 Prototype Baltics (

4-6-4 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of locomotives, represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels, six powered and coupled driving wheels and four trailing wheels. In France where the type was first used, it is known as t ...

of 1911; the death of the designer prevented development.

External links

Nord Atlantic 2.670 - 1904 (in French)

Nord Baltic 3.1102 - 1911 (in French)

''Histoire de l'exploitation d'un grand réseau — La Compagnie du chemin de fer du Nord — 1846-1937''. Par François Caron ; publié par Mouton, 1973.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Du Bousquet, Gaston French engineers 1839 births 1910 deaths Locomotive builders and designers Chemins de Fer du Nord