The braking effort achievable was limited, and an early development was the application of a steam brake to locomotives, where boiler pressure could be applied to brake blocks on the locomotive wheels.
A terracotta memorial entitled 'Appledore station', on a background of locomotive wheels and gearing, commemorates the old station.
This system is similar to the propulsion on a locomotive wheel except it doesn't spin completely.
The rolling locomotive wheels turn the motor armatures, and if the motor fields are now excited, the motors will act as generators.
An alarm system consisting of a locomotive wheel and hammer was also set up at this site.
Cases had arisen of locomotives being too heavy and breaking the cast iron rails that they had to run on; and locomotive wheels breaking and/or falling off.
Tradition says that an anchor hanging inside the rim of a locomotive wheel at the center of town was taken by Goslee from his ship, the Matamora.
A large watercolor celebrating the anatomy and the movement of a locomotive wheel by Suzanne McWhinnie is a reminder of Precisionism, the art movement that celebrated industry and technology.
Just at the moment however, that the locomotive wheels began to move, cries of "Stop!
The first alarm system consisted of two large locomotive wheels.