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replaced; because the original plug regulator was cracked, a new one was cast and fitted; new boiler fittings, including bourdon-type pressure gauge, gauge glass and try-cocks were fitted. New wash out plugs were also provided. The front buffer beam (not original) was reinforced with channel section. Safety chains were fitted and the tender equipped with air brakes taken from a commercial HGV. The boiler certificate issued by BR was for four years.
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was loaned to the then-Liverpool Museum and presented outright to them in 1970. In 1979–1980 it was removed from display again to be restored by
Rustons Diesels Ltd. for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway 150th Anniversary Celebrations. New boiler tubes were fitted; the original main steam pipe was
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tender, originally built by Sharp, Stewart of
Manchester. Other work included a new chimney, new smokebox doors, wheel splashers, foot plate and cab guard rails, boiler lagging and boiler tubes, the fitting of a mechanical lubricator and new boiler fittings. The cylinders were also probably re-bored.
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and a steam pressure gauge were fitted in order to help control the flow in the boiler. The locomotive was accidentally jolted in the scene where its separated inspection train did not slow down sufficiently when pushed by a banking engine and it forced the tender to strike the footplate, the damage
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was ordered by the LMR in
October 1837 as one of an order of six locomotives from Todd, Kitson & Laird of Leeds. They were built according to the patents of Robert Stephenson for a 6-wheeled locomotive and that of LMR Locomotive Superintendent John Melling, and included several of his patent
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were 0-4-2 'luggage' engines for working goods trains. They had 11 x 20 inch cylinders, 5 ft driving wheels, 3 ft 1 in diameter carrying wheels, and 50 psi boilers that were 7 ft 4 in long and slightly oval in cross section.
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was rebuilt at Edge Hill by the LMR in 1841 with a new boiler 8 ft 6 in long, which necessitated the building of longer frames, new 12 x 18 inch cylinders, new valves and valve chests, and a new valve gear as designed by
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in May 1859 for £400 to work the internal system of the Docks & Harbour Board in
Liverpool. A new boiler (that was probably the present boiler carried by the engine) was fitted by the Harbour Board in 1865.
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16:Liverpool and Manchester Railway steam locomotive
918:Lion: The Story of the Real Titfield Thunderbolt
585:Lion: The Story of the Real Titfield Thunderbolt
946:Bailey, Michael R. (2014). "The Patentee Type:
746:A L Dawson, Early Railways of Leeds, pp. 24–29
516:would often blow off steam between takes, so a
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295:in 1838. It featured in the 1953
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195:2,160 lbf (9.6 kN)
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445:LNWR George the Fifth Class
380:Rediscovery and restoration
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489:Cole Green railway station
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1068:Early steam locomotives
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