William Bouch is famous for the locomotives he designed for the Stockton & Darlington Railway. In 1860, Bouch designed the first British standard gauge locomotives to use a 4-4-0

4-4-0

Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 4-4-0 represents the wheel arrangement of four leading wheels on two axles , four powered and coupled driving wheels on two axles, and no trailing wheels...

 wheel layout which had earlier become popular in the United States.

William was a brother of Sir Thomas Bouch

Thomas Bouch

Sir Thomas Bouch was a British railway engineer in Victorian Britain.He was born in Thursby, near Carlisle, Cumberland, England and lived in Edinburgh. He helped develop the caisson and the roll-on/roll-off train ferry. He worked initially for the North British Railway and helped design parts of...

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One of Bouch's locomotives survives - NER '1001' Class

NER 1001 Class

The North Eastern Railway 1001 Class was a class of "long-boiler" 0-6-0 steam locomotive designed in Britain.-Technical data:A NER 1001 class locomotive weighed about 35 tons, with a wheelbase of and diameter driven wheels. Its diameter boiler produced over 7 tons of tractive effort at 140...

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