L&B - Lyn
| L&B - Lyn SR E 762 |
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 Factory recording
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| Number: | 1 + 1 |
| Manufacturer: | Baldwin , Alan Keef Ltd |
| Year of construction (s): | 1898, 2017 |
| Type : | 1'B'1 n2t |
| Gauge : | 597 mm |
| Length over coupling: | 8,395 mm |
| Width: | 2,146 mm |
| Fixed wheelbase: | 1,524 mm |
| Total wheelbase: | 5,359 mm |
| Service mass: | 23.4 t |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 838 mm |
| Impeller diameter: | 559 mm |
| Control type : | Stephenson |
| Cylinder diameter: | 254 mm |
| Piston stroke: | 406 mm |
| Boiler overpressure: | 124 N / cm² |
| Grate area: | 0.72 m² |
| Evaporation heating surface: | 35.23 m² |
| Train brake: | Suction air brake |
The locomotive named Lyn of the narrow-gauge Lynton and Barnstaple Railway (L&B) in Devon was a tank locomotive with a 1'B1 ' wheel arrangement.
To start operations in 1898, the L&B had purchased three 1'C1 'tank locomotives from Manning Wardle , Yeo , Exe and Taw . But even before the opening in May it became clear that three locomotives would not be enough. Because the British locomotive factories could not deliver at short notice due to a strike, the American manufacturer Baldwin received the order. The locomotive was delivered in parts, assembled in the L&B workshops and commissioned in July 1898.
The design had little in common with that of the other locomotives. It was a typical American locomotive with a bar frame, Stephenson controls , reinforcement struts between the front end of the frame and the smoke chamber , two sand domes on the boiler and a closed wooden cab. Although it was a few tons lighter and had one less coupled axle, the Lyn was a little longer and wider than the Manning-Wardle machines.
The name Lyn , like that of the other locomotives, came from a river in the region. Although Lyn was not particularly popular as a "stranger" with the staff, she did her job without major mishaps. In 1907 she received a new boiler in a slightly different design.
After the railway was taken over by the Southern Railway in 1923, the locomotive was given the number E 762, but kept its name.
After the line was closed in 1935, the Lyn was scrapped along with the Yeo , Exe and Taw locomotives in December of that year.
In January 2009, The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust announced a planned replica of the Lyn , which was originally supposed to be completed by 2012, but was not actually completed until 2017. The exterior of the locomotive is based as much as possible on the original, but has some technical improvements, especially superheaters and piston valves . On July 8, 2017, the locomotive, also called Lyn , was first moved under its own steam. It is the second replica of a Lynton and Barnstaple Railway locomotive after the Lyd .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Magazine , Issue 87, Winter 2008/9
- ^ The 762 Club - Lyn Gallery Seven: LYN at work. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
literature
GA Brown, JDCA Prideaux, HG Radcliffe: The Lynton and Barnstaple Railway . 5th expanded edition. Surrey Support Group of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Trust, 2009, ISBN 978-0-9552181-1-8 .
Tony Nicholson: The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway - A Celebration . 1st edition. Crécy Publishing Ltd., Manchester 2017, ISBN 978-0-7110-3873-8 .