Kingstown and Dalkey Railway
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1.75 miles in length
The first commercial atmospheric railway; the line ran from Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) to Dalkey in Ireland.
William Fairbairn and Sons built a stationary steam engine at Dalkey for this line; it had a huge flywheel, 36 ft dia, and developed 110 HP at 24 rpm with a steam pressure of 40 psi. Steam was supplied by three Cornish boilers. [1]
1844 March 29th. Line opened and viewed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Daniel Gooch and the idea taken by them to apply to the South Devon Railway
1844 Mr W. P. Marshall and Mr. George Berkley carried out a series of experiments upon the Dublin and Kingston (sic) Atmospheric Railway for Mr. Stephenson's report to the Chester and Holyhead Railway Co.
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Sources of Information
- ↑ 'Atmospheric Railways: A Victorian Venture in Silent Speed' by Charles Hadfield, David & Charles, 1967