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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)
An Historic Locomotive
An Historic Locomotive
One of the most interesting of the world's early steam railway locomotives has just been placed on permanent exhibition at Lime Street Station, Liverpool, on the L.M. and S. system. This is the “Lion” locomotive, built in 1838 by Todd, Kitson and Laird, of Leeds, for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
The “Lion” has two cylinders of 14 inches diameter by 18in. stroke, and coupled wheels of 5ft. diameter. The locomotive follows the general design of Robert Stephenson's machines generally employed on the Home railways between 1833 and 1845. Noteworthy features are outside sandwich frames of wood between iron plates, and inner frames of wrought iron carrying crank-axle bearings. The original frames, cylinders, valve and driving gear, wheels and axles, still in good order, remain on the engine, and the “Lion” is understood to be the only remaining locomotive in working order carrying the original cab valve motion.
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Inset Ticket Printing Machine
The machine shown above is 45ft. long, and weighs about seven tons. It performs nine different operations successively. On the left, board is fed into the machine, and on the extreme right four tickets, complete with printed inset, are delivered. The output is approximately 50,000 tickets per hour.
When constructed, the “Lion” locomotive was numbered 57. It first served on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, then on the Grand Junction Railway. In 1846 it became “No. 116” of the London and North Western line, and in 1859 the “Lion” was purchased by the Liverpool dock authorities. In 1928 the engine was acquired by the Liverpool Engineering Society, and at the Liverpool and Manchester Centenary celebrations the “Lion” proudly drew an exact replica of a passenger train of 1830 along the exhibition tracks.
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