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Midland Railway Paget locomotive

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cylinders arranged in two groups of four placed between the 1st and 2nd and 2nd and 3rd driving axles, with rotary steam distribution valves placed over each; a bronze sleeve in the valve body was rotated to control cutoff. Two were connected to the forward pair of the six driving wheels. Four were
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steam chest, with leakage in the glands and piston rings. In 1912, one of the rotary valves seized while on a test run, the engine blocking the main line for seven hours. As a result, it was put in store at Derby and was broken up in 1918, while Paget was in France commanding the
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Paget had initially financed it himself but eventually ran out of money, thus the railway made up for the difference. There had been a history on the railway's of a distrust of new ideas and Paget and Deeley were not on good terms, with Lowe suggesting a great hostility to it.
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connected, two each side to the centre pair, with the final two behind the last pair. These drove a jackshaft which operated and reversed the valves, and cut off was controlled by rotary sleeves. The boiler was large and had an unusual integral firebox, lined with
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was Locomotive Superintendent at the time). As the Midland shrouded the locomotive in secrecy, there is only one known official photograph, which was not released until after
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The only known official photograph of the Paget locomotive is this official portrait.
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tender locomotive in Great Britain and would be the only one until the
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74 long tons 10 hundredweight (75.7 t; 83.4 short tons)
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59 long tons 6 hundredweight (60.3 t; 66.4 short tons)
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74 long tons 10 cwt (166,900 lb or 75.7 t)
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59 long tons 6 cwt (132,800 lb or 60.3 t)
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18 in × 12 in (457 mm × 305 mm)
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in 1908 to the design of the General Superintendent
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Cecil Walter Paget
Midland Railway
Derby Works
Whyte
2-6-2
UIC
Leading dia.
Driver
Trailing dia.
Wheelbase
Adhesive weight
Cylinders
Cylinder size
Tractive effort
Midland Railway
United Kingdom
Midland Railway
steam locomotive
Derby Works
Cecil Paget
Richard Deeley
The Grouping
uniflow
firebricks
2-6-2
LNER Class V2
phosphor bronze
cast iron
Royal Engineers

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