2O Book of Locomotives 



human beings, has given its oldest horse 

 a comfortable light duty that of taking 

 the engineer's saloon about the big system. 

 Having proved unsuitable in her original 

 form, the ' Cornwall >: was soon rebuilt 

 to the usual practice. Since her first 

 rebuilding she has had several new boilers 

 and other working parts, thus the cynic 

 would say there was very little of the 

 original " Cornwall " left. Still, outwardly 

 she is much as she appeared in the 'fifties 

 of the last century with her long chimney, 

 small boiler, and huge driving wheels. 



The next type of locomotive for con- 

 sideration was that produced by the well- 

 known engineer Cramp ton. His locomotives 

 are always spoken of as ' Cramptons ", 

 and they were extremely popular in their 

 day. In some respects they followed the 

 " Cornwall ", as they depended on large 

 driving wheels for their efficiency. They, 

 too, had that curious daschund look, due 

 to their length and their low-pitched boilers. 

 The main features were that the driving 

 wheels were placed at the rear of the fire- 



