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GNR Stirling 4-2-2, the Glossary

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4-2-2 locomotives
Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1870

Bassett-Lowke

Bassett-Lowke was an English toy manufacturing company based in Northampton.

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Berkshire

The Royal County of Berkshire, commonly known as simply Berkshire (abbreviated Berks.), is a ceremonial county in South East England.

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Bogie

A bogie (or truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles.

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Brighton Toy and Model Museum

Brighton Toy and Model Museum (sometimes referred to as Brighton Toy Museum) is an independent toy museum situated in Brighton, East Sussex (registered charity no. 1001560).

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British Rail Class 08

The British Rail Class 08 is a class of diesel-electric shunting locomotives built by British Railways (BR).

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Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street

Case Closed: The Phantom of Baker Street, known as in Japan, is the sixth Case Closed feature film, released in Japan on April 20, 2002.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Crowthorne

Crowthorne is a village and civil parish in the Bracknell Forest district of south-eastern Berkshire, England.

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Doncaster Works

Doncaster Railway Works is a railway workshop located in Doncaster, England.

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Driving wheel

On a steam locomotive, a driving wheel is a powered wheel which is driven by the locomotive's pistons (or turbine, in the case of a steam turbine locomotive).

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Easthampstead Park

Easthampstead Park is a Victorian mansion in the civil parish of Bracknell in the English county of Berkshire.

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Engineering (magazine)

Engineering is a monthly British magazine founded in 1865.

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Exmouth

Exmouth is a port town, civil parish and seaside resort situated on the east bank of the mouth of the River Exe, southeast of Exeter.

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An express train is a type of passenger train that makes few or no stops between its origin and destination stations, usually major destinations, providing faster service than local trains that stop at many or all of the stations along their route.

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Fairbourne Railway

The Fairbourne Railway (Rheilffordd y Friog) is a gauge miniature railway running for from the village of Fairbourne on the Mid-Wales coast, alongside the beach to the end of a peninsula at Barmouth Ferry railway station, where there is a connection with the Barmouth Ferry across the Mawddach estuary to the seaside resort of Barmouth (Abermaw).

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Fog machine

A fog machine, fog generator, or smoke machine is a device that emits a dense vapor that appears similar to fog or smoke.

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Glasgow and South Western Railway

The Glasgow and South Western Railway (G&SWR) was a railway company in Scotland.

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GNR Class C1 (small boiler)

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) Small Boiler Class C1 is a class of steam locomotive, the first 4-4-2 or Atlantic type in Great Britain. GNR Stirling 4-2-2 and GNR Class C1 (small boiler) are Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) locomotives, passenger locomotives and standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain.

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Great Eastern Railway

The Great Eastern Railway (GER) was a pre-grouping British railway company, whose main line linked London Liverpool Street to Norwich and which had other lines through East Anglia.

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Great Northern Railway (Great Britain)

The Great Northern Railway (GNR) was a British railway company incorporated in 1846 with the object of building a line from London to York.

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Hamble-le-Rice

Hamble-le-Rice, commonly known as Hamble, is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England.

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Henry Greenly

Henry Greenly (1876–1947) was amongst the foremost miniature railway engineers of the 20th century, remembered as a master of engineering design.

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Henry Ivatt

Henry Alfred Ivatt (16 September 1851, Wentworth, Cambridgeshire – 25 October 1923) was an English railway engineer, and was the Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Northern Railway from 1896 to 1911.

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His Majesty's Railway Inspectorate

Established in 1840, His Majesty's Railway Inspectorate (HMRI) is the organisation responsible for overseeing safety on Britain's railways and tramways.

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Jack the Ripper

Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in 1888.

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Jaywick

Jaywick is a coastal village in the Tendring district of Essex, England, west of Clacton-on-Sea.

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Lincolnshire

Lincolnshire, abbreviated Lincs, is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands and Yorkshire and the Humber regions of England.

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List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection

The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin).

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List of Thomas & Friends characters

This is a list of all characters from the British children's television series Thomas & Friends and the reboot series Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go.

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Little Bytham

Little Bytham is a village and civil parish in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England.

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Locomotive Publishing Company

The Locomotive Publishing Company was an English publishing house, specialising in railway topics.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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London King's Cross railway station

King's Cross railway station, also known as London King's Cross, is a passenger railway terminus in the London Borough of Camden, on the edge of Central London.

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LSWR T3 class

The LSWR T3 class is a class of express passenger 4-4-0 steam locomotives designed for the London and South Western Railway by William Adams. GNR Stirling 4-2-2 and LSWR T3 class are standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain.

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Minimum-gauge railway

Minimum-gauge railways have a gauge of most commonly,,,,, or.

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National Railway Museum

The National Railway Museum (NRM) is a museum in York, England, forming part of the Science Museum Group.

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Nickname

A nickname or nick, also known as a sobriquet, is a substitute for the proper name of a person, place or thing.

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Patrick Stirling (railway engineer)

Patrick Stirling (29 June 1820 – 11 November 1895) was a Scottish railway engineer, and Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway of England.

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Race to the North

The Race to the North was the name given by the press to occasions in two summers of the late 19th century when British passenger trains belonging to different companies would literally race each other from London to Edinburgh over the two principal rail trunk routes connecting the English capital city to Scotland – the West Coast Main Line which runs from London Euston via Crewe and Carlisle and the East Coast Main Line route from London King's Cross via York and Newcastle.

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Railway Correspondence and Travel Society

The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) is a national society founded in Cheltenham, England in 1928 to bring together those interested in rail transport and locomotives.

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Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway

The Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway (RH&DR) is a gauge light railway in Kent, England, operating steam and internal combustion locomotives.

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Steam dome

The steam dome is a vessel fitted to the top of the boiler of a steam engine.

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The Railway Children

The Railway Children is a children's book by Edith Nesbit, originally serialised in The London Magazine during 1905 and published in book form in the same year.

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Thomas & Friends

Thomas & Friends (originally known as Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends until series 7, and later Thomas & Friends: Big World! Big Adventures! from series 22 onwards) is a British children's television series that aired for 24 series and 584 episodes from 9 October 1984 to 20 January 2021.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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TS Mercury

The Training Ship Mercury, or TS Mercury, was a naval training establishment founded as a ship in 1885 and then a shore-based school at Hamble in Hampshire from 1892 until its closure in July 1968.

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University of Westminster

The University of Westminster is a public university based in London, United Kingdom.

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W. G. Bagnall

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Waterloo International railway station

Waterloo International station was the London terminus of the Eurostar international rail service from its opening on 14 November 1994 to its closure on 13 November 2007, when it was replaced by London St Pancras International as the terminal for international rail services following the opening of High Speed 1 (HS1).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNR_Stirling_4-2-2

Also known as Stirling Single.

, York, York Theatre Royal, 1 gauge, 1895 St. Neots rail accident, 2-2-2.

GNR Stirling 4-2-2, the Glossary

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See also

4-2-2 locomotives

Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) locomotives

Railway locomotives introduced in 1870

References