Question by Rabbit: What locomotives ran on the London underground in the late 1800s?
Between 1880 and 1900 what type (class) of steam locomotives were used in the London underground
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Answer by Mages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Underground
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West Brompton Underground station in 1876. Image courtesy London Transport Museum (www.ltmuseum.co.uk) © Transport For London
The story began with Charles Pearson, the first in a succession of underground visionaries. It was he who first proposed the notion of ‘trains in drains’ in 1845, when the railway was a relatively new invention (the first steam passenger service only opened in 1830). Pearson, instrumental in the removal of the anti-Catholic inscription on the foot of the Monument, was a progressive and a pioneer – his persistence helped persuade the House of Commons to approve a bill in 1853 to build a subterranean railway between Paddington and Farringdon
Google it, I did.
The Circle Line is the oldest section of the London Underground and it is about to celebrate it’s 150th birthday.
Although many commuters grumble about the daily commute on the London Underground, most would be lost without the system that shuttles them around the capital.
Despite the weekend closures and delays, the London Underground has formed a vital transport skeleton for the city ever since it opened in 1863.
And London Underground organisers have decided to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the of the first ever Tube journey by bringing back the age of steam to the railways.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2222411/London-Underground-150th-anniversary-marked-steam-train.html#ixzz2AbMQe4Zl
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This link as a loco on the Circle Line with a station name tag – Mansion House which is a Circle Line Station in the City of London .
http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=steam+locomotives+of+the+circle+line&num=10&hl=en&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbnid=1J4jzqG83xaI-M:&imgrefurl=http://www.engrailhistory.info/r054.html&docid=ke0keKzMz3DXKM&imgurl=http://www.engrailhistory.info/imfile/r12592.jpg&w=600&h=404&ei=6TiNUNr1GoLQ0QWDhoDABA&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=3&sig=100822557218571192182&page=1&tbnh=150&tbnw=236&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:11,s:0,i:102&tx=135&ty=76&biw=1333&bih=723
I read a story about the building of the very first deep tunnel for the Northern Line – when part of it was open the ran trains up and down all day – people paid a one penny fare (that’s about half of a modern penny in terms of value) by the end of the day the company had collected over 1-million pennies in fares. Obviously Londoners were as daft then as we are now. Probably a bit like going down a mine because the original deep line tube trains had now windows – blimey!
Chas n Dave
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When the underground was first proposed, the requirement was that the engines should ‘Consume their own smoke’. In reality this meant that the engines condensed the steam rather than let it go up the stack, making the plumes we observe with normal steam engines. The smoke from burning the coal still went up the stack.
Tank engines were almost exclusively used. They are easily recognised as they tend to have a large pipe on each side leading to the tanks where the steam was condensed.
One of these engines is preserved in the London Transport Museum. There is another at the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre. The latter is due to form part of a train next year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Metropolitan Railway. The Circle line was not completed until some years later when the Metropolitan District Railway built an extension to Aldgate.