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
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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
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