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Minimum Gauge Railways - bart. Sir Arthur Percival Heywood
Arthur Percival Sir bart. Heywood
Minimum Gauge Railways
Published by Good Press, 2022
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Table of Contents
Preface to Second Edition.
Preface to Third Edition.
I. INTRODUCTION.
II. OBJECTS OF THE 15 IN. GAUGE.
III. CONSTRUCTION OF THE DUFFIELD BANK LINE.
IV. DETAILS OF THE EATON HALL LINE.
V. LOCOMOTIVES.
VI. WAGONS AND CARS
VII. THE DUFFIELD BANK WORKSHOPS.
VIII. SCIENTIFIC CONSIDERATIONS.
IX. REMARKS ON NARROW GAUGE RAILWAYS.
X. APPENDIX
A
B.
C.
D.
PLATES.
Tennis Ground station, Duffield Bank Railway.
Tennis Ground station, Duffield Bank Railway.
Viaduct, Duffield Bank Railway.
Curve, 25 feet radius, Duffield Bank Railway.
Engine No 2 and Goods Train, Duffield Bank Railway.
Engine No 1 and Passenger Train, Duffield Bank Railway.
Balderton Junction—Engine and Waggon Sheds, Eaton Railway.
Engine No 4 and Train, Eaton Railway.
Eaton Terminus—Coal Store and Carriage Shed, Eaton Railway.
Estate Works Sidings, Eaton Railway.
Belgrave Engine Shed, Eaton Railway.
Engine No 1, Duffield Bank Railway, 1874.
Engine No 2, Duffield Bank Railway, 1881.
Engine No 3, Duffield Bank Railway, 1894.
Engine No 4, Eaton Railway, 1896.
Dining Car (to seat eight) , Duffield Bank Railway.
Parcel Van, Duffield Bank Railway.
Arrangement drawing of Dining Carriage to seat eight.
Arrangement drawing of Sleeping Carriage with four berths.
Side elevation of Passenger Carriage to seat sixteen.
Arrangement of Radiating Wheels on six-coupled engine No. 2.
Plan and Section of Eaton Railway
Cross Sections of Eaton Railway
Preface to Second Edition.
Table of Contents
In
the year 1881, when the Royal Agricultural Society held their show in Derby, it was represented to me that, as many of the members were interested in the cheap transport offered by narrow gauge railways, it would be appreciated if I opened my experimental line at Duffield to inspection during the week.
In order to facilitate the comprehension of the objects of this little railway, the late Secretary of the Society suggested that I should draw up a short descriptive pamphlet to place in the hands of visitors. This was done with success and much saving of verbal explanation.
Thirteen years later, having added considerably to the rolling stock and improved many of the details, I decided to give a three days exhibition, and to issue a general invitation to all interested in the promotion of such lines, at the same time taking the opportunity to revise and amplify the first edition of this pamphlet.
A. P. H.
August, 1894.
Preface to Third Edition.
Table of Contents
Some
four years have elapsed since the second edition of this pamphlet was exhausted. During this period I have constructed and equipped at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, a line which has been in regular use since May, 1896, exactly similar to my own at Duffield. This railway having been made wholly for practical purposes and on strictly economic principles, I am in a position to present more reliable data, both in regard to cost and working, than I could obtain from my own experimental line, which has been continually altered and only irregularly worked.
I desire to take this opportunity of expressing my thanks to the Duke of Westminster for the free hand accorded me in regard to the arrangement of all details of the Eaton Railway; a liberty which has resulted in a symmetrical and entirely successful carrying out of the work.
What I am now able to advance will, I trust, amply demonstrate the really solid advantages which, under suitable conditions, may be reaped from the installation of little railways of the kind described.
A. P. H.
July, 1898.
I.
INTRODUCTION.
Table of Contents
At
the outset I must offer an apology for making use, throughout this pamphlet, of the first person. I do so partly for convenience of expression, and partly because almost all that I have to advance is derived from my own experience. In doing so I am far from desiring to undervalue the work of others in the same direction. I have, however, little hesitation in saying that, with the exception of the late Mr. Charles Spooner, the able Engineer of the Festiniog Railway, most of those, so far as I know, who are responsible for the design of plant for these small lines have been manufacturers whose productions, though often of fair workmanship, are clearly indicative of a failure to grasp many of the leading principles involved. This shortcoming is the natural result of a want of sufficient time for the consideration of details, and a consequent tendency to imitate established customs in regard to railway work which by no means apply with equal advantage to very narrow gauges, where the conditions involved are wholly different. This is especially true of small locomotive building, the specimens of which evidence in their design not only ignorance on important points, but also a deplorable absence of the sense of well-balanced proportion.
I venture to think that, in the twenty-five years during which I have devoted much of my time to the subject, I have succeeded in bringing to considerable perfection both permanent way and rolling stock suitable for these diminutive lines, and more especially the locomotives, which are probably, for their weight, the most powerful and flexible ever built to work by simple adhesion. Whether this conceit be well founded or no I leave to the judgment of those who may be at the pains to acquaint themselves with the details and result of my work, which has been undertaken wholly as a labour of love with the sole desire to promote improvement in what I believe to be an entirely special branch of engineering. I have never wasted my money on patents, and, so long as my designs are not imitated in a bungling manner, I am glad to see them made use of by anyone to whom they may be of service.
It must be understood that I do not here attempt to enter upon the comparative merits of narrow gauge railways generally, but merely to give particulars of what has come within my own experience. To facilitate a comprehension of the conditions under which I have worked, it will be well to explain that I make no pretension to be considered a professional engineer, and that I speak rather as a self-taught mechanic and surveyor.
My father possessed a beautiful Holtzappfel lathe, with elaborate tools for ornamental turning in wood and metal. As a boy of seven or eight I can recall watching him as he worked. At ten years old I was promoted to stand on a box and turn candlesticks, but, a year or two later, a few lessons—the only direct practical instruction I ever had—from an old fishing-rod maker in chasing metal screw-threads begot in me an ardent desire to construct machinery, particularly anything pertaining to railways, for which from my childhood I had an absorbing craze.
By my father’s kindness I, by-and-bye, fitted up a workshop in which the tools were driven by a half-horse steam engine; and at eighteen had completed my first locomotive, weighing 56 lbs., which, with a dozen or so of small wagons, made a fine show on some 40 yards of brass-railed permanent way of 4 in. gauge. Locomotive driving was my hobby