Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways (1800) (14757340641)

Identifier: sciencerailways01kirk (find matches)
Title: Revised and enlarged ed. of the science of railways
Year: 1800 (1800s)
Authors: Kirkman, Marshall Monroe, 1842-1921
Subjects: Transportation Railroads
Publisher: New York : The World railway publishing co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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829Delaware A Hudson Canal Railroad. Allen was the engineer. Other locomotives w^ereconstructed and placed insuccessful operation in England during the periodI have named; thus, one (in 1829) for the ShuttEnd Railway, at Kingswinford. It was at this time—September 15th, 1830—that the event wliich so impressed the worldoccurred, namely, the opening of the Liverpool& Manchester Railway. So late as 1829 the own-ers of that property were still in doubt as towhether to use liorses, or locomotives, or station-ary engines with endless chains. To solve theirdoubts they determined to have a competitive EVOL urn)X of locomoti \k. 29 trial of locomotives. It occurred near Manches-ter in the latter part of the year 1829. Thereward was twenty-five hundred dollars for thelocomotive which should prove to be the mostsuccessful. Three machines competed, amongthem Stephensons Rocket, which deservedlyreceived the preference. These experiments con-vinced those interested of the value of the loco-
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Stephensons • Rocket. 1830. This engine hauled the first train at the open-ing of the Liverpool Sc Manchester Railway. motive, and they accordingly gave Stephensonorders for seven other machines, all of whichtook part in the great procession that attendedthe opening of the Liverpool & Manchester road,on the 15th of September, 1830. The North-umbrian, which had a speed of thirty-six milesan hour, headed the procession as being in allrespects the best of its type. 30 RAILWAY EQUIPMENT. George Stephenson and his son Robert attainedgreat influence in connection with railway sub-jects because of their ingenuit)^ and talents. The)^are said to have improved the steam blast, whichenabled the Rocket to make sufficient steamto haul a passenger train at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour.* The w^heels of this locomo-tive had little side play and on this account itwas necessary that the track should not varygreatly from a straight line. This necessityadded greatly to the cost of the road