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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 3 (July 1, 1932)

The Locomotive Stock

The Locomotive Stock.

The locomotives (which all bear appropriate names) of the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway, number eight. Two are of the eight-coupled class, with leading bogie, very similar in appearance to the X class engines in use on sections of the Main Trunk Line. A small four-wheeled engine of German origin and used for shunting duties, is known as “The Bug.” The balance are six-coupled outside cylinder locomotives, resembling in miniature very closely our well-known Ab class engines, except that they do not have a tender with circular water tank. Two of the six-coupled class engines have three cylinders, No. 7 “Typhoon” and No. page 47 8 “Hurricane.” All the engines, from the illustrations published in various overseas magazines, appear to have full Walschaert valve gear. Some of them have air pumps and brake gear, and a simplified air brake is installed on the passenger rolling stock.

A large proportion of the passenger rolling stock is four-wheeled. They are roofed, but open at the sides. Entirely closed-in vehicles are used in the winter months. The engines take loads of twenty to twenty-two cars, fully loaded, and reach a speed of about 30 m.p.h. on level straight sections of the road.