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Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ould accomplish at its best, withoutmaking it a special racing effort. No. 3408Atbara type (4-6-0), with drivers of 6 feet 8inches, 1818 square feet heating surface, and asteam pressure of 195 lbs., ran to the Welsh Coastin just under 5 hours, or quite 52^ miles an hour—on the return journey the engine improved thetime by five minutes. In 1908 was placed upon the rails the GrreatBear (Plate IV), which was Britains first loco-motive of the Pacific type (4-6-2), and thelargest engine hitherto seen on our railways,although it is smaller than American engines ofthe same type. In 1909 the Company brought into service anew series of 4-6-0 express passenger engineswith four high-pressure cylinders. They werepractically of the same type as the Star andKnight classes (Plate III), with but slightdifferences in detail. There were ten engines inthis new King class, which still are among theheaviest running in this country, weighing 75^tons exclusive of the tender, which weighs 40 tonswhen full.
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A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS 139 No. 4021 King Edward drew the Eoyalfuneral train from Paddington to AVindsor onMay 20, 1910, when the mortal remains ofKing Edward VII. were conveyed to their lastresting-place; and five other engines — KingWilliam, King James, King Charles, KingStephen, and King George —drew the remain-ing trains, which carried the distinguished guestsinvited to take part in the ceremony at St.Georges Chapel. The train bearing the remains of the departedKing and the chief mourners consisted of theviolet-draped funeral saloon which was used ona similar occasion nine years previously, whenQueen Victoria was conveyed to her last resting-place in the mausoleum at Frogmore, ten salooncoaches to accommodate the Eoyal mourners andtheir suites, and a brake van. The engine ap-pointed to haul this train was doubtless chosen forits melancholy appropriateness, No. 4021 KingEdward, and was driven by Mr. W. Butcher.At no time in the previous history of railwayshas any one man with

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