Ajax: Austria's Oldest
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- Опубліковано 15 лис 2024
- On display at the Vienna Technical Museum, Ajax is the oldest locomotive in Austria. Built in England, at the Viaduct Foundry of Jones, Turner & Evans in 1841, Ajax is a more technologically advanced cousin of Lion, and indeed the oldest components of which are older than those of Lion!
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That is a mighty fine locomotive, I can't believe the original locomotive survived intact.
That’s a meticulous change log for the locomotive, and still pretty close to the original appearance I imagine.
Thank you for making and sharing !
I still remember having the pleasure of seeing this lovely locomotive in person on my month-long stay in Vienna now 10 years ago (how I long every day to return to my beloved city). I can thoroughly endorse Dr. Dawson's praise of the Technical Museum, an often overlooked gem among the abundance of palaces and art galleries. Also seen in some photos here is the Heizhaus Eisenbahnmuseum in Strasshof, just half an hour outside of Vienna and another place I thoroughly enjoyed, so much so that I visited twice.
Ajax is a beautiful locomotive, brilliant video
Thank you kindly :-)
Great old engine, not messed with in preservation, no ill informed restorations, just running repairs, really nice original, must go and see her some day (and perhaps get some measurements...)
Interesting locomotive - and lovely Taube too!
Many thanks! Vielen dank.
I was just at the technical Museum last summer! Lovely video as always!
Great video Anthony. Glad to hear Austria has preserved the locomotive. Good to see you posting again! Cheers.
So... essentially Ajax is just what lion should have looked like as presented instead of the mess that was it's committee restoration.
Still a great video my friend, Keep up the work!
Basically, yes.
Another interesting video about a locomotive I didn't know about, keep them coming!
Thanks, will do!
I went on holiday to Austria last year 🇦🇹
A big thank you for the great video on your part. I'll do some research and find out if there are still plans in the state archives here in Austria. LG from Vienna
Handsome looking loco.
Another 0-4-2 tender locomotive is the oldest surviving locomotive in Australia. But newer from 1855.
Seems the 0-4-2 type was quite popular around this era but now mainly just thought of as small tank engines.
Not that there is too much of a few connection between Austria and Australia despite what many in certain parts of the world think.
i thik i saw this particular loco in the powerhouse museum in ultimo,sydney
@@wetcardie66 yes that is it. Number one of the New South Wales railways.
Pity the slightly older first locomotives in Australia from Victoria did not survive scrapping.
I think it is response to regulation that went in action (in Austrian Empire) after accident in France in which train headed by two 2-2-0 derailed and completely burned, killing many, after axle of first locomotive broke, train derailed and caught on fire. So for some time it was forbidden to operate any locomotive with only two axles and to have two locomotives on the same train. So 0-4-2 seems like logical response.
Thank you a great video. Interesting to hear the differences to fellow "Large Samson" Lion. Some suggest Ajax is the oldest extant locomotive in Continental Europe.
It's very curious, Anthony, because our first state railway lines were built using two 0-4-2s purchased from London & South Western Railway in 1855 - of which one was named Ajax - and of which the photos often used are of an engine identical to this one!
Tell me more? :-)
@@AnthonyDawsonHistory I wish I could, but information on them is limited to what I summarised. They've not been subjects of great interest to Swedish historians, unfortunately!
EDIT: After consulting the book "Sveriges Järnvägar" by Iwan W. Fischerström, it's clear the image I referenced is of the Austrian Ajax, as the tender of a Gölsdorf engine can be seen off to one side.
A snippet of text beneath the image reads: "For Swedens first railway construction, two English engines were aquired - the 'Ajax' and 'Titan' - which after completing their duties, vanished from Swedish railway history. They were of the same type as displayed above."
So the appearance, lives and fates of the two engines, were most likely not recorded for posterity.
In an opposing gab valve gear do gab openings face each other o do them point to opposite direction?
The current Bayard has relatively long gabs facing opposite directions.
Face each other.
Straith from decommisioning to preservation in the 1870's!
Doesn't this make Ajax the oldest from service to preservation locomotive in the world?
Could do.
I thought you were doing the oldest locomotive in Australia, most surprised it was a locomotive of The Austrian Empire
Great NOT to see the wood lagging varnished.
:)👍
Farbelhaft!