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- The Locomotive Acts (or Red Flag Acts) were a series of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom regulating the use of mechanically propelled vehicles...21 KB (2,297 words) - 22:06, 8 June 2024
A diesel locomotive is a type of railway locomotive in which the power source is a diesel engine. Several types of diesel locomotives have been developed...91 KB (11,367 words) - 17:00, 9 June 2024- best Jethro Tull song by Rock – Das Gesamtwerk der größten Rock-Acts im Check. "Locomotive Breath" was covered by Rabbitt (starring Trevor Rabin) on their...12 KB (1,343 words) - 19:04, 7 May 2024
Locomotives on Highways Act 1896 (59 & 60 Vict. c. 36) removed the strict rules and UK speed limits that were included in the earlier Locomotive Acts...13 KB (1,548 words) - 18:07, 21 September 2023
manufacturers. Development was hampered by adverse legislation (the UK Locomotive Acts from the 1860s as well as the rapid development of internal combustion...46 KB (6,029 words) - 02:40, 9 June 2024
rollers. In the United Kingdom, sentiment against them led to the Locomotive Acts of 1865. In 1807, Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude created what...98 KB (9,024 words) - 10:10, 12 June 2024
coupled with airtight interconnections. The coach furthest from the locomotive acts as a control car. The number of cars in the train can also be expanded...5 KB (401 words) - 14:49, 10 June 2024
campaigned against the restrictions imposed on motor vehicles by the Locomotive Acts, and became a founder member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain...19 KB (1,697 words) - 00:50, 2 May 2024
speed limits in the United Kingdom were set by a series of restrictive Locomotive Acts (in 1861, 1865 and 1878). The 1861 Act introduced a 10 mph (16 km/h)...57 KB (6,833 words) - 10:10, 3 June 2024
train sets with two locomotives can be run as a pair giving a train of fourteen carriages. The coach furthest from the locomotive acts as a control car....26 KB (2,247 words) - 19:09, 24 March 2024- UK, the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896 replaced the hugely restrictive Locomotive Acts of 1861, 1865 and 1878 (the so-called Red Flag acts) thereby...56 KB (3,621 words) - 19:32, 31 May 2024
- excess of the speed limit. The Locomotive Acts were superseded, after much lobbying and campaigning, by the Locomotives on Highways Act 1896 on 14 November...11 KB (1,370 words) - 00:39, 15 June 2024
HST Trailers. [citation needed] LSL provides locomotives, stock and crews for railtour organisers. LSL acts as train operating company to the following...55 KB (1,839 words) - 08:22, 1 June 2024
The Great Locomotive Chase (also known as Andrews' Raid or the Mitchel Raid) was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during...37 KB (4,165 words) - 12:34, 19 June 2024
speeding in his horse-drawn carriage in Washington, D.C. A series of Locomotive Acts (in 1861, 1865 and 1878) created the first numeric speed limits for...155 KB (17,359 words) - 18:26, 15 June 2024
enforce them. The Locomotive Acts in the UK set speed limits for vehicles, and later codified enforcement methods. The first Locomotive Act, passed in 1861...78 KB (8,993 words) - 11:35, 27 April 2024
development in the UK had been effectively stopped by a series of Locomotive Acts introduced during the 19th century which severely restricted the use...111 KB (10,261 words) - 12:44, 17 June 2024- The Titfield Thunderbolt (category Fictional locomotives)final episode in which the Bishop of Wilchester acts as fireman on the purloined Victorian locomotive. Ealing Studios head Sir Michael Balcon expressed...18 KB (2,199 words) - 01:10, 16 June 2024
NS Class 1200 (category Nederlandse Spoorwegen locomotives)to 1251–1255. ACTS Nederland BV continued to use its five 1200 class locomotives in freight and charter service until 2010. Locomotive 1253 was taken...7 KB (594 words) - 17:51, 17 January 2023- reason was the passing of increasingly restrictive legislation, the Locomotive Acts, in 1861 and 1865 which made the use of steam propelled vehicles on...6 KB (665 words) - 22:44, 24 October 2019
- Compressed-Air Locomotive in St Gothard Tunnel by C. M. Gariel 599527Popular Science Monthly Volume 10 February 1877 — Compressed-Air Locomotive in St Gothard
- to coerce by force of arms another, it always acts, and insists that it acts in self-defense" (Locomotive Engineers Journal, February 1929, p. 109). Arthur
- of the difference, let us consider steam. A steam locomotive would be a steam engine. The locomotive burns coal or wood, and thereby converts the chemical