Engineering Wonders of the World
Volume I
Forfatter: Archibald Williams
År: 1945
Serie: Engineering Wonders of the World
Forlag: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Sted: London, Edinburgh, Dublin and New York
Sider: 456
UDK: 600 eng - gl.
Volume I with 520 Illustrations, Maps and Diagrams
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ENGINEERING WONDERS OF
THE WORLD.
OLD BROAD GAUGE ENGINE “ VULCAN.”
railway in full working order
suddenly denuded of all engines,
carriages, and wagons, and some
idea will be ob-
tained of the ap- Clearing
the
pearance of the ( ine
Great Western
lines between Exeter and Truro
on the morning of Saturday,
May 21, 1892. Every siding
and yard was devoid of vehicles ;
not a single shunting engine re-
mained. This in itself was by
no means the least noteworthy
feature of the conversion. Dur-
ing the last few days the broad
gauge lines were in use, every
vehicle that could possibly be
precluding the adoption of the plan followed
in the case of the South Wales Railway, for
instance, which was to close
one of a pair while altering
Woik tobe p-aUpre. The conversion con-
done. 6 & _
templated in the west of Eng-
land therefore necessitated the entire closing
to traffic of a long length of railway, and the
problem was how to alter in two days the
gauge of lines that had taken as many decades
to construct.
spared was moved to Swindon and placed in
the miles of sidings specially provided there,
to await conversion to suit the narrow gauge
—a work so well arranged that upwards of a
dozen coaches were altered in a single morning
__or consignment to the scrap heap. Many
special trains of engines and vehicles travelled
to Swindon—“ the broad gauge mortuary,” as
it was termed—forming a motley procession
of old-world stock of all shapes, sizes, designs,
and origins, relics of early railway times and.
The success of the project
was essentially one of perfect
organization, and the officials
of the Great Western Railway
resolved to leave no detail to
chance. The main features
were—to move all broad gauge
rolling stock from the lines to
be converted; to subdivide
the work and provide sufficient
men to carry out the alteration
of gauge in the time allowed ;
and to equip the line with
narrow gauge engines and roll-
ing stock for future traffic.
Picture some 200 miles of
OLD BROAD GAUGE ENGINE “VICTOR.”