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Smallest Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives?


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5 minutes ago, Tim V said:

OK, I'm going to bid the Guinness locos that could be dropped into a converter truck to work standard gauge!

http://www.narrowgaugerailwaymuseum.org.uk/collections/industrial-railways/guinness-brewery-railway/

Fair bid, Tim; they meet the OP's requirements of having been built for service in what was then (1885-1921) still a part of the UK, just.  

 

Puffing Billy and Wylam Dilly were pretty small, even by the standards of the 1820s.

 

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54 minutes ago, Wickham Green too said:

Has anyone mentioned "Judy" & "Alfred" by the way ? ........ though I don't think they would win the prize.

This isn't about the prize; it's about the smallest locomotives, plural.

On that line of inquiry, what was the (dimensionally) smallest type or class of standard gauge locomotive built in quantity, i. e. not a "one-off" (2 or more built).

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Cycloped must have been a small “locomotive”...

 

it was basically a horse, on a treadmill, mounted on railway wheels.
 

It must have been exactly 1hp...unquestionably, unless someone short changed them for a pony...

 

Rainhill, 1829

 

 

 

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11 hours ago, adb968008 said:

Cycloped must have been a small “locomotive”...

 

it was basically a horse, on a treadmill, mounted on railway wheels.
 

It must have been exactly 1hp...unquestionably, unless someone short changed them for a pony...

 

Rainhill, 1829

 

 

 

Surely it would be less than 1hp at the rail, as the gearing would have absorbed some of the energy output of the horse?

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