Class "9" 2-10-0 heavy freight locomotives, slightly modified to accommodate new boiler arrangement; in Franco-Crosti system normal chimney on front smokebox is closed, and gases pass through bank of tubes in secondary drum, before being ejected from final chimney; secondary drum preheats feedwater; heat is also extracted from exhaust steam. (See also Ry Gaz v 103 n 2 July 8 1955 p 41-4; Engineering v 179 n 4664 June 17 1955 p 766-8)
British railways locomotives with Franco-Crosti boilers
Engineer
Engineer ; 199 , n 5186
1955
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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British railways locomotives with Franco-Crosti boilers
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