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CIÉ 2600 Class
The Irish AEC railcars were Associated Equipment Company (AEC)–engined diesel multiple units (normally termed railcars in Ireland) that operated InterCity and suburban services on the Irish railway system between 1950 and 1975. Many CIÉ examples were later converted for Push-pull train, push–pull operation with diesel locomotives, finally being withdrawn when displaced by the electric Dublin Area Rapid Transit service in the mid-1980s. Background The first single-unit diesel railcars in Ireland were introduced on the narrow-gauge County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, County Donegal and Clogher Valley Railway, Clogher Valley railways in the early 1930s. The Great Northern Railway (Ireland), Great Northern Railway and Northern Counties Committee followed shortly thereafter. However, early railcar trains did not exceed two cars in length. Early in 1948, the GNR(I) ordered a fleet of 20 railcars to cut costs, capable of operating in pairs with one or two intermediate trai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Associated Equipment Company
Associated Equipment Company (AEC) was a British vehicle manufacturer that built buses, motorcoaches and trucks from 1912 until 1979. The name Associated Equipment Company was hardly ever used; instead, it traded under the AEC and ACLO brands. During World War One, AEC was the most prolific British lorry manufacturer, after building London's buses before the war. History Inception The London General Omnibus Company (LGOC) was founded in 1855 to amalgamate and regulate the horse-drawn Coach (carriage), omnibus services then operating in London. The company began producing motor omnibuses for its own use in 1909 with the LGOC X-type, X-type designed by its chief motor engineer, Frank Searle (businessman), Frank Searle, at works in Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow. The X-type was followed by Searle's LGOC B-type, B-type design, considered to be one of the first mass-produced commercial vehicles. In 1912, LGOC was taken over by the Underground Electric Railways Company of London, Unde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clogher Valley Railway
The Clogher Valley Railway was a , narrow gauge railway in County Tyrone and County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It opened in May 1887 and closed on 1 January 1942 (with the last trains running the previous day). Route The railway was mainly situated in rural parts of County Tyrone, which hindered the company's potential profitability. The western terminus was Maguiresbridge, County Fermanagh, where the line shared Maguiresbridge railway station with the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) on the Clones to Enniskillen line. It then proceeded in a north-easterly direction through stations at Brookeborough, Colebrooke, Fivemiletown, Clogher and Augher until reaching Ballygawley station, at which point the line turned in a south-easterly direction to Aughnacloy, Caledon and the eastern terminus at Tynan, County Armagh (where the Great Northern Railway was again met, this time on the Clones to Portadown line) Aughnacloy was the line's principal station and the location of the com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardan Shaft
Cardan may refer to: * Gerolamo Cardano or Jerome Cardan (1501–1576), Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer, and gambler * Cornelius Castoriadis (1922–1997), Greek-French philosopher who used the pseudonym Paul Cardan * Cardan, Gironde, a commune of the Gironde ''département'', in France See also * Cardan angle, a type of angle used to describe the orientation of a rigid body with respect to a fixed coordinate system * Cardan grille, a method of writing secret messages using a grid * Cardan joint, or universal joint, a joint in a rigid rod that allows the rod to "bend" in any direction * Cardan shaft, or drive shaft, a vehicle component for transmitting mechanical power and torque and rotation * Cardan suspension or gimbal, a pivoted support that allows the rotation of an object about a single axis * Carden (other) {{disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Self-Changing Gears
Self-Changing Gears was a British company, set up and owned equally by Walter Gordon Wilson and John Davenport Siddeley, to develop and exploit the Wilson or pre-selector gearbox. Self-Changing Gears designed, built and licensed transmissions for various applications including light and heavy road vehicles, military, marine, and rail vehicles as well as motor racing cars. Ownership changes Following the death of Walter Wilson in 1957, his son A Gordon Wilson took over the running of the company until his retirement in 1965. The original company Improved Gears Ltd was incorporated on 28 December 1928, and this later became Self-Changing Gears (SCG). The company moved a number of times in the early years, and in 1938 settled in premises at Lythalls Lane, Coventry. During World War II, additional premises were used at Burbage, Leicestershire. In 1935, Siddeley sold his interests in Armstrong Siddeley (including Self-Changing Gears) to Hawker Aircraft forming Hawker Siddeley. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fluid Flywheel
A fluid coupling or hydraulic coupling is a hydrodynamic or 'hydrokinetic' device used to transmit rotating mechanical power.Fluid coupling ''encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com'' It has been used in s as an alternative to a mechanical . It also has widespread application in marine and industrial machine drives, where variable speed operation and controlled start-up without [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waterford And Tramore Railway
The Waterford and Tramore Railway (W&TR) was a railway in County Waterford, Ireland, that linked the city of Waterford and the seaside town of Tramore, a distance of . The railway officially opened on 5 September 1853 and opened for normal business on 7 September 1853. The line had no intermediate stations, only the two termini, and was to remain completely isolated from the rest of the Irish railway network throughout its life. It closed on 31 December 1960. History Construction began on 10 February 1853, the Waterford business community meeting the £77,000 cost. William Dargan's construction company completed the single track line by 2 September 1853, less than seven months. This was a considerable achievement as a section of line outside Waterford ran over deep bog covered with bulrushes. Each terminus included a turntable. The Company offered a number of concessions and travel offers, some of which were related to the expansion of the resort of Tramore. A combined Hot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Driving Trailers
A control car, cab car (North America), control trailer, or driving trailer (UK, Ireland, Australia and India) is a non-powered rail vehicle from which a train can be operated. As dedicated vehicles or regular passenger cars, they have one or two driver compartments with all the controls and gauges required to remotely operate the locomotive, including exterior locomotive equipment such as train horn, horns, bells, ploughs, and lights. They also have communications and safety systems such as GSM-R or European Train Control System (ETCS). Control cars enable Push–pull train, push-pull operation when located on the end of a train opposite its locomotive by allowing the train to reverse direction at a Train station#Terminus, terminus without moving the locomotive or turning the train around. Control cars can carry passengers, baggage, and mail, and may, when used together with diesel locomotives, contain an engine-generator set to provide head-end power (HEP). They can also be us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buffet Car
A buffet car (British English) or café car (American English) is a passenger railroad car, where food and Drink, beverages can be bought at a counter. p. 333. They provide a lower level of service than a dining car (also known as a restaurant car in some regions) where passengers are served at tables, however, they require fewer employees to staff, reducing operating costs. Sometimes a seating area is provided in the car where passengers may sit while consuming their purchase. Typically, passengers are not allowed to consume food and drinks not purchased onboard the train in these areas. Other trains lack this area and passengers are expected to return to their seats to consume the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterprise (train Service)
Enterprise is the cross-border inter-city train service between in the Republic of Ireland and Belfast Grand Central in Northern Ireland, jointly operated by Iarnród Éireann (IÉ) and NI Railways (NIR). It operates on the Belfast–Dublin railway line. History The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) (GNR(I)) introduced the service as the "Enterprise Express" on Monday 11 August 1947 in an attempt to compete with air and road transport which were challenging the railways. The inaugural service was hauled by GNR (I) Steam Locomotive No.83 "''Eagle.''" This name would later appear on NIR Diesel Electric locomotive No. 101. Billed as a prestige service, this allowed many of the intermediate stops between the two cities to be cut out reducing the journey time from around 3 hours 45 minutes to 2 hours 15 minutes which aided business travel, which even today, remains an important market. Customs checks were limited to the Belfast and Dublin terminals, instead of lengthy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Bulleid
Oliver Vaughan Snell Bulleid Commander of the Order of the British Empire, CBE (19 September 1882 – 25 April 1970) was a British railway and mechanical engineer best known as the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Southern Railway (UK), Southern Railway between 1937 and the 1948 nationalisation, developing many well-known locomotives. Early life and Great Northern Railway He was born in Invercargill, New Zealand, to William Bulleid and his wife Marian Pugh, both British immigrants. On the death of his father in 1889, his mother returned to Llanfyllin, Wales, where the family home had been, with Bulleid. In 1901, after a technical education at Accrington Grammar School, he joined the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain), Great Northern Railway (GNR) at Doncaster at the age of 18, as an apprentice under Henry Ivatt, the Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME). After a four-year apprenticeship, he became the assistant to the Locomotive Running Superintendent, and a year lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chief Mechanical Engineer
Chief mechanical engineer and locomotive superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to the person ultimately responsible to the board of the company for the building and maintaining of the locomotives and rolling stock. In Britain, the post of ''locomotive superintendent'' was introduced in the late 1830s, and ''chief mechanical engineer'' in 1886. Emerging professional roles In the early Victorian era, projected canal or railway schemes were prepared by groups of promoters who hired specialists such as civil engineers, surveyors, architects or contractors to survey a route; and this resulted in the issue of a prospectus setting out their proposals. Provided that adequate capital could be raised from potential investors, agreements obtained from the landowners along the proposed route and, in Britain, an Act of Parliament obtained (different terminology is used in other countries), then construction might begin either by a new c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British United Traction
British United Traction (BUT) was a manufacturer of railway equipment and trolleybuses. It was established in 1946 as a joint venture between Associated Equipment Company, AEC and Leyland Motors, Leyland. History British United Traction was established in 1946 when Associated Equipment Company, AEC and Leyland Motors, Leyland amalgamated their trolleybus interests. Neither had produced trolleybuses since the early years of World War II. With both forecasting that demand would return to pre-war levels as networks began to close, a joint venture was formed. The new company was organised so that AEC would design and produce vehicles for the UK market while Leyland looked after export markets, although there were some exceptions to this. The only noticeable difference between the manufacturers' output was the wheels. Initially vehicles were produced at Leyland's Ham, London factory, with the first vehicles completed in 1947 for Trolleybuses in Johannesburg, Johannesburg. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
