This blog comes with a warring. And that warring is this and my next entry is me banging on about trains. So if you keep reading and think your never get the time back you were warned.
So first things first the National railway museum in Delhi. This is a great place on 10 acers with a vast collection of historical trains and carriages from the colourful history of the Indian railways. There's a lot covering the times British colonial ear. It's nice to walk around a well layered out disused siding with trains sitting on the track looking slightly weathered and the odd scare from there working life. There is also a nice under cover museum. With many items ranging from name plates, signals, railway cups and a Elephant skull.
Many of the trains came from works in England and my first instinct was to write about them but then i found a great example of something which i find interesting. It came in the shape of this little yellow beast 25630.
Its a fireless steam locomotive built in Germany in 1953 working as a Factory loco (works shunter) at Sindri Fertilizers, Sindri. Now as you may are not know a steam engine usually works by a fire in the fire box heating water in the boiler and that becoming steam and that pressure is used to drive the pistons to then move the train. But this has no fire. How this works is there a a fixed boiler plant that produces the steam at a great presser. That presser is feed in to the tank on this train. The problem is that this train has a slow speed and cant go far away from its boiler plant. But this type of train was used in shunt yard and factories like chemical plants and explosive factories were you don't want sparks from the fire flying around. This is a great looking train and very creative way around a problem. This idea was tried out in the early days of the London underground.
Its a fireless steam locomotive built in Germany in 1953 working as a Factory loco (works shunter) at Sindri Fertilizers, Sindri. Now as you may are not know a steam engine usually works by a fire in the fire box heating water in the boiler and that becoming steam and that pressure is used to drive the pistons to then move the train. But this has no fire. How this works is there a a fixed boiler plant that produces the steam at a great presser. That presser is feed in to the tank on this train. The problem is that this train has a slow speed and cant go far away from its boiler plant. But this type of train was used in shunt yard and factories like chemical plants and explosive factories were you don't want sparks from the fire flying around. This is a great looking train and very creative way around a problem. This idea was tried out in the early days of the London underground.
This Elephant skull is from a wild elephant that charged a mail train on September the 28th 1894 on a rail bridge 220 mile from Calcutta. The loco and its 7 carriages was derailed and the Elephant was found 40 feet below. The impact of the collision and the fall the Elephant was dead. The skull is on show in the Delhi Rail museum. One tusk was given to James Bell the engine driver while the other is at the board office in London.All in all the train system is amazing over here from it in city Delhi metro to its long distance rail roads which I will be covering next time.
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