Heres a poser.Can you tell me the maker of the First Steam train to run?

Question

Between Baker Street and Uxbridge?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell froma quick search the first engines used there were electric ones.

Let me know if they were steam ones, im curious now

Answer 2

Was it Gary?

Answer 3

Stephenson, up 'ere int norf, cos wer brita up ear!

It ran on the Stockton railway system so look up 'Stockton' and 'it' will no doubt reveal all, puff puff! A.

Answer 4

Hornby?

Answer 5

The Metropolitan Railway opened its Uxbridge branch on 4 July 1904 and steam traction was used from that date until 1 January 1905. This is all the information I have been able to discover concerning the locomotives of the railway at around that time:-

' Three more small classes of tank engine were added to the stud. The four 0-4-4 "C " class were built by Neilson & Company in 1891, and were very much to South Eastern Railway design. These were followed in 1894 by six Sharp Stewart 2-4-0 tanks, known as the" D" class, which owed much to Barry Railway designs. Then, in 1896, the Metropolitan put into service the first of the" E " class 0-4-4s, designed by its own Locomotive Superintendent, T. F. Clark. The first three were built in the Metropolitan works at Neasden, and one of them was given the number 1, replacing the original" A" class locomotive of that number.' (quoted from http://www.steamindex.com/locotype/londl...

I have been unable to discover which of these classes was used for those few months of steam services on the branch.

Answer 6

Baker Street and Uxbridge, if I'm not mistaken, are on the Metropolitan line.  The first locomotive to run on the Metropolitan line was designed by John Fowler (it was nicknamed Fowler's Ghost.)  It was built, I believe, by Robert Stevenson and Co.  

It wasn't a success and so the Metropolitan Railway ended up using locomotives of the GWR built at Swindon for the better part of the 1860s.

Answer 7

THOMAS BAKER

Answer 8

Difficult to find this on the net but it would have been some time around 1900. The locomotives would have been 4-4-0 tank engines fitted with condensers. Maker: Beyer Peacock

The line was electrified in 1905.

Answer 9

The Metropolitan Railway opened its Uxbridge branch on 4 July 1904 and steam traction was used from that date until 1 January 1905. This is all the information I have been able to discover concerning the locomotives of the railway at around that time:-

' Three more small classes of tank engine were added to the stud. The four 0-4-4 "C " class were built by Neilson & Company in 1891, and were very much to South Eastern Railway design. These were followed in 1894 by six Sharp Stewart 2-4-0 tanks, known as the" D" class, which owed much to Barry Railway designs. Then, in 1896, the Metropolitan put into service the first of the" E " class 0-4-4s, designed by its own Locomotive Superintendent, T. F. Clark. The first three were built in the Metropolitan works at Neasden, and one of them was given the number 1, replacing the original" A" class locomotive of that number.'

I have been unable to discover which of these classes was used for those few months of steam services on the branch.