The Fell Locomotive Museum is a railway museum in Featherston, New Zealand, which exhibits the only remaining steam-powered Fell railway locomotive in the world. From 1877, locomotive H 199 climbed 265 metres (869 ft) up the 4.8-kilometre (3.0 mi)...
The Fell system was a third-rail system for railways that were too steep to be worked by adhesion on the running rails alone. It used a raised centre rail between the two running rails to provide extra traction and braking, or braking alone. Trains...
British Railways 10100 was an unusual experimental diesel locomotive known informally as the Fell diesel locomotive, after Lt Col L. F. R. Fell who was one of the designers. It was the joint production of Davey Paxman & Co, Shell Refining &...
The Dorrigo Steam Railway and Museum in Dorrigo, New South Wales, Australia is a large, privately owned collection of railway vehicles and equipment from the railways of New South Wales, covering both Government and private railways. The collection...
The NZR H class steam locomotive is a unique class of Fell locomotive used by New Zealand Railways (NZR) on the Rimutaka Incline, the 3-mile (4.8 km) section of 1 in 15 (6.67 %) gradient between Cross Creek and Summit, over the Rimutaka Ranges.
Beginning in 1917, steam locomotives, which consume large amounts of fuel (wood, coal, and later oil) and even more water, were gradually retired and replaced by diesel from the 1920s. Railway electrification started in the 1880s onwards, which...
John Bull is a historic British-built steam locomotive that operated in the United States. It was operated for the first time on September 15, 1831, and became the oldest operable steam locomotive in the world when the Smithsonian Institution ran it...
The Nuremberg Transport Museum (Verkehrsmuseum Nürnberg) in Nuremberg, Germany, consists of Deutsche Bahn's DB Museum and the Museum of Communications (Museum für Kommunikation). It also has two satellite museums at Koblenz-Lützel (DB Museum...
A fell is a mountain or upland area in northern England and other parts of Europe.
Locomotives of New Zealand is a complete list of all locomotive classes that operate or have operated in New Zealand's railway network. It does not include locomotives used on bush tramways. All New Zealand's main-line locomotives run on a narrow...