Lagos steam tram
| Lagos steam tram | |
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 Articulated locomotive number 101 of the Lagos Government Railway, built in 1901
by Hunslet Engine Co. Ltd in Leeds. It was one of the three locomotives of the first batch with factory numbers 751–753 and LGR numbers 101–103, here without wheel covers | |
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| Route length: | 4.4 km |
| Gauge : | 2 feet 6 inches = 762 mm |
| Minimum radius : | 80 feet = 24.4 m |
| Operating speed: | 7¾ mph = 12.5 km / h |
The steam tram Lagos was a 1902 run to 1933, 4.4 km long narrow gauge railway with a track width of 2 feet 6 inches (762 mm) in Lagos in Nigeria . It was used from 1902 to 1914 for passenger and freight traffic from 1906 to 1933 for the transport of faeces.
Freight and passenger railways
Between 1901 and 1902, public sanitation and mosquito control campaigns led to the construction of an iron bridge over Five Cowrie Creek and marshland reclamation projects in Kokomaiko. When the colonial government completed the railway line from Lagos to Ibadan, it ended at the Iddo terminus across from Lagos, and a system had to be developed to connect Iddo to the port of Lagos and other areas of the island. In 1901, construction began on a single-track line across the Carter Bridge. The tram was inaugurated for public passenger transport in 1902. The passenger trains drove from Kokomaiko on the marina side of Lagos in a northerly direction past the customs quay and then left into Balogun Street and from there over Ereko, Ebute Ero, Idumota and Carter Bridge to the Iddo terminus. The passenger line was one of the earliest public transportation systems in Lagos. It transported travelers, traders and workers from the Iddo train station to Lagos.
The single-track tram route with 7 passing points had a track width of 2 feet 6 inches (762 mm). At the Iddo terminal there was a pull-out track and sidings near the warehouses. The 4.4 km journey from Marina across Carter Bidge took a scheduled 21 minutes at an average speed of 12.5 km / h.
The railroad cars were built by Ashbury Railway Carriage and Iron Company Ltd. There were 10 passenger cars and 20 freight cars.
Faecal railway
From 1906 on, the Kokomaiko sewage railway from Agarawu via Massey Street, Cow Lane, George V Street, Onikan Junction and Five Cowrie Bridge to Dejection Jetty also drove. The tram mainly transported faeces. The word Kokomaiko describes the sound of the locomotives onomatopoeically .
Locomotives
The Lagos steam tram had five 0-4-4 locomotives No. 101-105 operated by Hunslet Engine Co. Ltd. were built in Leeds . Locomotives 101-103 were built in 1910 with serial numbers 751-753, and no. 104-105 were built in 1910 with serial numbers 1016-1017. They had outboard cylinders 6¼ "x 8" (159 x 203 mm) bore x stroke and a wheel diameter of 1 foot 6½ in (470 mm).
The faeces railway owned two 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotives from WG Bagnall Ltd. from Stafford . They had outboard cylinders 7 "x 12" (178 x 305 mm) and a wheel diameter of 1 foot 9½ "(521 mm). The locomotive built in 1906 with the factory number 1779 was called Kokomaiko and the one built in 1911 with the factory number 1944 had no nameplate but was colloquially called New Sanitary .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Nevil Miller: Lagos steam tramway and its unique locomotives . In: The Railway Magazine . 115, 1966, ISSN 0033-8923 , pp. 103-106.
- ↑ Lagos Steam Tramways . 22. July 2013.
- ↑ Akintokunbo A Adejumo: On the History of Nigeria Railways. September 16, 2008. Accessed May 31, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Akintokunbo A Adejumo: Still On Nigeria's Railway History - “Narrow Gauge In Nigeria” . October 17, 2008. Accessed May 31, 2018.
Coordinates: 6 ° 28 ′ 13.37 " N , 3 ° 22 ′ 57.65" E