Locomotive, supplied by Swiss Locomotive and Machine Works, Winterthur, for railway in South India, is 0-8-2 type, 4-cylinder compound, with low-pressure cylinders which operate rack drive situated above high-pressure cylinders, which are connected to adhesion axles.


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    Title :

    Rack-adhesion locomotive for the Nilgiri railway


    Additional title:

    Engineering


    Published in:

    Engineering ; 120 , n 3110


    Publication date :

    1925


    Size :

    2 pages


    Remarks:

    11 Figs. partly on supp. plate


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    The Nilgiri rack railway

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1898


    The Nilgiri Railway

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1926


    The Nilgiri railway

    Wall, Benson P. | Engineering Index Backfile | 1898


    Nilgiri Mountain Railway

    Bhandari, R. R. | IuD Bahn | 2005


    The Nilgiri mountain railway

    Engineering Index Backfile | 1899