page_title: Steeplecab
section_title: Japan
hierarchical_section_title: Steeplecab / By country / Japan
caption_attribution_description: A North Eastern Railway electric steeplecab locomotive (Class ES1), commissioned in 1902, built in 1903, operational from 1905, built by the British Thomson-Houston company with sub-contractor Brush Electrical Engineering Co. One of a pair of locomotives to work on Tyneside, north-east England, hauling very heavy mineral trains to the docks up and down a very steep gradient. This example, NER No.1, is preserved by the National Railway Museum, and was photographed on 9 April 2008 at the Locomotion museum, Shildon.
context_page_description: In railroad terminology, a steeplecab is a style or design of electric locomotive; the term is rarely if ever used for other forms of power. The name originated in North America and has been used in Britain as well.
  A steeplecab design has a central driving cab area which may include a full-height area in between for electrical equipment. On both ends lower sloping hood contain other equipment, especially noisy equipment such as the air compressor not desired within the cab area. When overhead lines are used for power transmission, the cab roof usually supports the equipment to collect the power, either by pantographs, bow collectors or trolley poles. Although on some early designs such as the North Eastern Railways Electric number 1 a bow collector might be mounted on one of the hoods instead.
context_section_description: Built by Toshiba named Toshiba wartime type Electric locomotives  (Japanese: 東芝戦時型電気機関車).
caption: NER No.1 (later British Rail Class ES1), Locomotion museum, Shildon
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