Exe locomotive

The locomotives Yeo, Exe, Taw and Lew the narrow gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L & B) in Devon were tender locomotives with the wheel arrangement 1'C1 '. A fifth locomotive, a replica of Lew named Lyd, was completed in 2010 by the Ffestiniog Railway. All locomotives were named after rivers in Devon. By the manufacturer of the machine past the four series is commonly known as Manning Wardle.

History

With built by Manning Wardle locomotives Yeo, Exe and Taw railway was opened in 1898 (a few months later a fourth, built by Baldwin machine called Lyn ). Yeo and Taw were already used in the final construction phase.

1923 took over the Southern Railway (SR), the route, and the locomotives Yeo, Exe and Taw received the numbers E 759 to E 761 in 1925 procured the SR from Manning Wardle another locomotive that was called Lew and the number E received 188. It differed from the first three only slightly, especially in a different form of the cab.

In 1935, the railway was closed due to inefficiency, and up to Lew, the locomotives were scrapped in December of this year.

The still relatively new lev was used to reduce the range and sold in 1936 for use on a plantation in Brazil. Their tracks were lost in the turmoil of World War II, and it can not be excluded that the locomotive still exists. All previous attempts to clarify this issue are, however, been unsuccessful.

The replica Lyd

The mid-1990s began the Ffestiniog Railway ( FR) in their workshops in Boston Lodge with a replica of Lew. Because it can not be excluded that the model still exists, the new name Lyd was chosen, which comes as the role models of a river in Devon.

Of the four previous locomotives, the Lyd differs by a superheater and a higher boiler pressure. In addition, the design of the roll axis was slightly modified because the FR and FR belonging to the Welsh Highland Railway ( WHR ), is on the run, the machine mainly, closer curve radii and gradients have higher than the L & B. The cab is designed with removable elements on the side walls so that the locomotive can to the clearance profile of FR determined Garnedd tunnel happen appearance being doing as little as possible is to deviate from the model. The Lyd was originally fired with oil, in December 2011 it was converted to coal firing, for which the locomotive was prepared from the beginning.

On August 5, 2010, the first locomotive ran under its own steam. In September she gave guest performances on other tracks, first at the Launceston Steam Railway, then on the first restored section of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway.

Technology

The gauge for this relatively long and wide locomotives are built on an outboard plate frame. The coupled driving rods are mounted on cranks. The synchronized axes with their comparatively large wheels are mounted in Bisselgestellen.

The slides are different from the then prevailing in the UK construction above the cylinder and outside the frame. They are operated by a joy- control, a relatively rare type with a hinged approximately in the middle of the connecting rod control linkage. The Lyd is one of only two operational locomotives with Joy- control in the UK.

The firebox is made much wider than the boiler barrel, and the top edge is higher than that of the long boiler. The boiler of the new locomotive is made in welding technology. The original locomotives, also built in 1925, specimen, still had no superheater; the newly built Lyd is equipped as only one with a. The water tanks are positioned on either side of the elongated vessel; the coal boxes are located between the water tanks and the cab.