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Building Railway Locomotives on Computers Building railway locomotives on computers Brian Farrimond Ella Pereira Mark Anderson (Edge Hill University) 1 Steam locomotives .. when grandma was a little girl Britain’s Railways https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laKqbSO2r8M&feature=youtu.be Edited from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceR2yUqFJLM Southampton Docks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYGhyxhOlUs 2 Edited from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSMnvA357ds How a steam locomotive works Animation of a steam locomotive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcKPhrsiiLs Edited from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8LrAsL4oH0 3 How a steam locomotive works A car has a petrol/diesel engine that drives the wheels A steam locomotive has a steam engine that drives the wheels In practice locomotive and engine are both used to mean the whole locomotive A glass steam engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73txXT21aZU This is the original as found on YouTube 4 Demo • Locomotive Builder – Demo1 - outside cylinder engine • Scenario Builder – Railway Demo 1 – Showing just the wheels and motion 5 The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway • The LYR • Ormskirk’s railway • Third largest in the country • The LYR Carriage and Wagon works football team became ... • ... Manchester United 6 Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway • Owned ships and trains • Could travel from Ireland to Germany by LYR 7 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Hamburg in Dublin Germany 8 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Sail to Liverpool on LYR ship SS Mellifont 9 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway LYR Train to Goole 10 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Sail to Hamburg in Germany on LYR ship SS Irwell 11 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway • Zooming in 12 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway 13 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication 14 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication 15 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Ormskirk Station - now 16 © Copyright Raymond Knapman and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2417255 Ormskirk Station – 100 years ago 17 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Ormskirk Station – 100 years ago 18 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Ormskirk Station – 100 years ago 19 Edited from Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Society Publication Ormskirk Station – 100 years ago Horses being unloaded from a train at Ormskirk, Lancashire, 11 December 1914 20 • © National Railway Museum and SSPL Steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway • An early engine Jenkins 0-6-0 No.687 Neptune, built in 1866. 21 Source: http://www.lyrs.org.uk/the_railway/locomotives1.html Steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway • An express passenger locomotive Hughes 4-6-0 No.1511 22 Source: http://www.lyrs.org.uk/the_railway/locomotives1.html Steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway • A coal engine Aspinall 0-8-0 Coal Engine 23 http://www.lyrs.org.uk/the_railway/locomotives3.html Steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway • A shunting engine LYR Pug shunting engine 24 http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/48792-tight-curves-in-a-ly-goods-yard/ Steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway • A bigger shunting engine LYR Rapid Shunter 25 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 98 Steam locomotives of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway • Another picture of a rapid shunter 26 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 96 The components Firebox Safety Dome Cab Boiler valve Chimney Coal Smokebox bunker Side tank Running plate Driving wheels Coupling rod Slide Cylinders bar Piston Connecting rod Cross rod head 27 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 96 The components Boiler Safety Dome Firebox valve Chimney Cab Coal bunker Smokebox Side tank Running plate Driving wheels Coupling rod Cylinders Slide Piston Connecting rod bar Cross rod 28 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 98 head The locomotive motion Building a locomotive • cylinders • slide bars • piston rod • cross head • connecting rod • coupling rod • driving wheels http://youtu.be/JGPKsv8ZQ4c Edited from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsYIiUxZeQ 29 The locomotive motion Building a locomotive • cylinders • slide bars • piston rod • cross head http://youtu.be/KKqsBpCJhtI Edited from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRsYIiUxZeQ 30 Storing the water Side water tank 31 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 98 Storing the water Saddle tank 32 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 88 Storing the water Refilling the side tanks on the East Lancs Railway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkmgpVR27k8 Filmed by Brian Farrimond 33 The components Boiler Safety Dome Firebox valve Chimney Coal bunker Smokebox Side tank Running plate Driving wheels Coupling rod Cylinders Slide Piston Connecting rod bar Cross rod 34 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 98 head The components Cab Water tank Dome (saddle) Can you see the following? •cab •dome •water tank •cylinder •slide bars •connecting rod •coupling rod •driving wheels Driving Connecting Slide Coupling wheels Cylinder rod bars rod 35 Goole Docks geograph-2224416-by-Ben-Brooksbank http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%26YR_Class_21#mediaviewer/File:Goole_Docks_geograph-2224416-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg The components coal Can you see chimney safety bunker the following? valve •coal bunker •firebox smoke box •boiler •safety valve •smoke box •chimney boiler •water tank firebox •running plate running water plate tank 36 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 57 Exercise • Give out the exercise • Fill in the component names 37 The components Boiler Safety Dome Firebox valve Chimney Coal bunker Smokebox Side tank Running plate Driving wheels Coupling rod Cylinders Slide Piston Connecting rod bar Cross rod 38 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 98 head Name the parts boiler dome chimney safety valve firebox side cab tank smoke box coal bunker running plate driving wheels connecting piston rod cylinder coupling rod rod cross head slide bar 39 Building a model of the rapid shunter • Measure the parts - in inches • Put the measurements into Locomotive Builder to build a model of the rapid shunter • Export the model to Scenario Builder • Run the rapid shunter in a scenario 40 Measuring the parts • Get a copy of the rapid shunter drawing • Make the paper ruler 41 Measuring the parts 42 Putting the measurements into Locomotive Builder • Demo putting the measurements into Locomotive Builder • Together we shall build the rapid shunter from the measurement sheet 43 Exporting the model to Scenario Builder 44 Adding a locomotive to a scenario • Running Scenario Builder – demo scenario Railway Scenario 1 45 Adding a locomotive to a scenario • Running Scenario Builder – demo scenario Railway Scenario 1 • Using a scenario in another, new scenario. Use scenario Railway Scenario 1. 46 Adding a locomotive to a scenario Use scenario Railway Scenario 1. Railway: Train train101 consists of AAA, 5 x wagon1. Railway: train101 is initially parked at Mark0 back towards Mark1. Railway: train101 moves to Mark2 facing south at speed 10.0 mph at 6:14 am. 47 Adding a locomotive to a scenario Use scenario Railway Scenario 1. Railway: Train train101 consists of AAA, 5 x wagon1. Railway: train101 is initially parked at Mark0 back towards Mark1. Railway: train101 moves to Mark2 facing south at speed 10.0 mph at 6:14 am. How do we change this so we can see your 48 locomotive instead of AAA? Adding your locomotive to the scenario Use scenario Railway Scenario 1. Railway: Train train101 consists of AAA, 5 x wagon1. Railway: train101 is initially parked at Mark0 back towards Mark1. Railway: train101 moves to Mark2 facing south at speed 10.0 mph at 6:14 am. •Open ScenarioBuilder •Select menu item File | Open Scenario and open Railway AAA in examples folder49 Adding your locomotive to the scenario 50 Tender locomotives • Aspinall ‘A’ class https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyFHvv9b18E 51 Storing the water in the tender Water tank inside tender ImageImage inin LancashireLancashire andand YorkshireYorkshire RailwayRailway MiscellanyMiscellany byby NoelNoel Coates,Coates, 1983.1983. FromFrom thethe Author'sAuthor's collection.collection. 52 Storing the water in the tender Water tank inside tender 53 Barry Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Locomotives, page 105 Inside a tender Water tank inside tender 54 Photo by Brian Farrimond Inside a tender Coal Water Water scoop Image from: http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/basic2.htm 55 Using water troughs to pick up water using the scoop https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXBJnyjgbGw Edited from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQPdRS-9p_I 56 What’s missing on this engine ?? •The cylinders !! 57 Photo by David Ingham from Bury, Lancashire, England http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aspinall_0-6-0_number_1300_at_Buckley_Wells_%281%29.jpg And this one ?? •The cylinders !! 58 Barry Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Locomotives, page 109 A clue •Inside cylinders 59 B.C.Lane Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Locomotives page 62 Demo inside cylinders with Locomotive Builder • Demo2 – inside cylinder engine 60 Building an Aspinall ‘A’ class tender engine with inside cylinders Image in Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Miscellany by Noel Coates, 1983. From the Author's collection. 61 Building an Aspinall ‘A’ class tender engine with inside cylinders 62 Steam locomotives Old Ormskirk 63.
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