A German steam tram engine from the Cologne-Bonn railway, pulling a train through Brühl marketplace. A tram engine is a steam locomotive specially built, or modified, to run on a street, or roadside, tramway track.

The GER Class C53 was a class of twelve 0-6-0 T steam tram locomotives designed by James Holden for the Great Eastern Railway. They passed to the London and North Eastern Railway at the grouping, and received the LNER classification J70.

The J70 0-6-0 (GER Class C53) Tram Engines T.W. Worsdell designed the four-wheeled Y6 steam trams for for running on or alongside public roads on the Wisbech & Upwell Tramway.

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The GER Class G15 was a class of ten 0-4-0T steam tram locomotives designed by Thomas William Worsdell for the British Great Eastern Railway. Six passed to the London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) at the 1923 grouping, and received the LNER classification Y6.

Tram engines were used throughout Europe and other parts of the world for duty on street railways and for light industrial and rural passenger service. They were also fairly common in the States, where they were called steam dummies.

This is the story of the C53 steam tram engines, which ran the Wisbech and Upwell Tramway, along with the docks at Yarmoth and Ipswich. It provided the inspi...

Oct 15, 1972 · Tramway Engines is the twenty-sixth book of The Railway Series. It is also the final book in the series to be written by Wilbert Awdry.

Its engine used a steam pressure of 100 pound per square inch and it burned about 9 kilograms (20 pounds) of coal for an hour's working. Passengers rode in a non-powered trailer, with no weather protection for those on the upper deck.

Oct 23, 2006 · Both engines were built by Baldwin in 1891 for the Sydney tramways prior to electrification of the main system. After electrification 100 was sold to a private tramway at a beach resort south of Sydney, and then on to a tramway in New Zealand. 103A was transferred to an isolated steam line, replaced by trolleybuses (!), and then sold to a ...