The Goose is a new build replica narrow gauge railcar based on a road vehicle. It was inspired by the Galloping Goose railcars which were operated by the Rio Grand Southern Railroad in the mid-20th century. The Statfold Barn Railway based The Goose on a Morris commercial vehicle chassis and a US Motor Corporation diesel engine.
The Goose in action
Information
Number built:
1
Built:
2015
Builder:
Statfold Barn Railway
Motor:
US Motor Corporation diesel
Wheel arrangement:
4-4wDMR
The Goose was publically unveiled in 2015 and has performed at open days on the Statfold Barn Railway since then. It can carry up to eighteen passengers.
It is built to operate on 610mm gauge track.
This is an example of the small narrow gauge (600mm gauge) industrial shunters built by Ruston & Hornsby which used it's 2VTO diesel engine.
201970 at Statfold Barn
Information
Number built:
1
Built:
1940
Builder:
Ruston & Hornsby
Motor:
Ruston & Hornsby 2VTO diesel
Power:
13 hp (9.7 kW
Formation:
4wDM
The locomotive was used by Bierrum & Partners until 1968 when it entered preservation and has had a varied second career for a number of light railways and museums including the Ffestiniog Railway where it was used by the engineers department. It is currently at the Statfold Barn Railway.
Cardiff Corporation Tramways took over operation of trams in the city in 1902 and operated an electric tram service until 1950. Part of the initial fleet of trams were these single deckers which used twin Brill 23E trucks and could carry up to thirty four passengers.
Information
Number built:
14
Built:
1902
Builder:
Dick, Kerr of Preston
Motor:
2 Dick, Kerr series wound motors (550v DC OHLE)
Single decker car [1]
[1] "The Cardiff Corporation Tramways", Street Railway Journal (Vol. XX No. 1 July 5 1903) p. 43
The first of the "Peaks", the Class 44 was the most powerful batch of diesels built in the British Railways Modernisation Plan diesel pilot-scheme, but also the heaviest! [1] Weighing in at 133 tons (and that was with some modifications to reduce weight) the Class 44 were imposing locomotives with their 1Co-Co1 bogie wheel arrangement ,which had extra load bearing wheels (similar to the Class 40 and the Bulleid prototype main line diesels). The Class 44 derived a lot of it's internals from the LMS prototypes 10000/1 and the SR Bulleid locomotives 10201-3.
D4 at Kidderminster Town
Information
Number built:
10
Built:
1959-60
Builder:
BR Derby
Engine:
Sulzer 12LDA28 diesel
Power:
2, 300 hp (1, 715 kW)
Wheel arrangement:
1Co-Co1
Although there were some early issues with the bogies, which could crack or catch fire if maintenance was lax, the Class 44s were a successful design and were followed on by the uprated series production Class 45 and 46. All three classes of locomotives are known as the Peaks, the name due to the Class 44s being named after British mountains.
When they first entered service they were used on express passenger services. They were supplanted by more powerful machines after a few years and spent most of their careers, especially on their final years, on freight duties in the London Midland Region area [2]. Scrapping began in the late 1970s as the Class 44s were surplus to requirements, with the last leaving service in 1980 [3]. Two have been preserved.
D8 at Rowsley South
Another view of D8
D4 arrives at Kidderminster Town
Nose view of D8
D8 stands ready for a new service
[1] Brian Haresnape, Early Prototype & Pilot Scheme Diesel-Electrics (Ian Allan, 1981) p. 77 [2] John Vaughan, Diesels on the London Midland (Ian Allan, 1981) p. 62 [3] John Glover, BR Diary 1978-1985 (Ian Allan, 1985) p. 47
