Glossary Results for Word "Samson Class 2-4-0 Locomotive Class"

Samson Class 2-4-0 Locomotive Class

A class of 90 2-4-0 engines with 6ft 0in driving wheels built for secondary duties under Ramsbottom and Webb from 1863 to 1879. Reputedly the first passenger engines with coupled wheels. It has the usual Ramsbottom features: the fancy chimney top, safety valves, horizontal smoke box door, slotted splashers, no brakes on the engine and no cab. The coupling rods are of the early Ramsbottom type, with forked ends having wedge adjustment and cottered fastenings. 80 replaced by ‘Small Jumbos’ in 1890’s, the others continuing for 20 years in engineer department use.