Crampton locomotive
Locomotora Crampton
- Date
- 1846 · confidence medium
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Credited to
- Thomas Russell Crampton (1846)
- Field
- Movement
What it is
Steam locomotive with a single large-diameter driving axle placed behind the firebox, allowing very large driving wheels and a low center of gravity without requiring a broad-gauge track, for high-speed running.
What it led to
- 19th-century European high-speed locomotives
- licensed construction in France and Germany
- influence on later single-driving-axle designs
- railway speed records of the era