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Baldwin "Lyn" new build.

Discussie in 'Narrow Gauge Railways' gestart door Meiriongwril, 25 jan 2009.

  1. FearOfManchester

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    I think it looks pretty great too, though the original livery is pretty great, I believe the domes were lined out with that one.
     
  2. Meiriongwril

    Meiriongwril Member

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    Lyn and Lyd double heading, that'll be a treat!!:)
     
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    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Better yet, "Lyn" crossing "Lyd" at Woody Bay, while the arguments over "Yeo's" first livery rage on these pages. Put me down for L&B Holly Green with Indian Red undercarriage!

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    When I first got to know Exmoor, the L&B was firmly on the dead/gone/not-coming-back list..... so Maunsell green livery on a narrow gauge loco is one strangeness which I'm more than relaxed about have to get used to..... in a 'if I had a tail, I'd be wagging it' sort of way!! :)

    Frankly, I could've lived with the lined black and name painted on the cab as per the earliest incarnation.... and.... no, I don't have any issues with the Lempor chimney, or the piston valves, or the superheating, or the boiler pressure, or the safety valves. It's been a fantastic experience to watch "Lyn" go from dream to drawing to reality.... and soon.... to Woody Bay. Happiness overload!!


    (p.s. Don't tell anyone, but I actually thought "Lyd" looked rather fine in BR mixed traffic lined black as 30190.)
     
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  4. SpudUk

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    What's the logic for the two whistles?
     
  5. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    So they can play 'On Ilkley Moor'? :)
     
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    30854 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Not too sure on the L&B, but back in the day, on the Isle of Man, locos on trains approaching Douglas from Port Erin and St.John's lines used different tones to alert the signal box to their approach.
     
  7. Jamessquared

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    Is it a replica of an original feature? Back in the day, some locos had two whistles - one for general warning, the other of a different pitch to give instructions to the guard. I'm not sure if the original L&B locos did that, but certainly some lines did.

    Tom
     
  8. huochemi

    huochemi Part of the furniture

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    The image gallery shows that as built the whistle was the highest point on the loco, on the dome. The (or a) whistle later seems to have been moved to the cab roof. The project managers may have had to find a place for the (larger) Puffing Billy whistle but wanted to keep the one on the roof.
     
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  9. Dag Bonnedal

    Dag Bonnedal New Member

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    Very nice looking valves, as the rest of the loco.
    Custom made or standard product? Made by whom?
     
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  10. SpudUk

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    No not original. One of the whistles is a replica of the 1898 whistles supplied to Lyn's Australian sisters and thus possibly the same whistle that Lyn would have had, not sure of the other whistle nor why a second is needed
     
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  11. Felix Holt

    Felix Holt Guest

    Details of all the parts (who made what and where and when) are available on the 60 different Lynformation online magazines (available at 762club.com) and on Mike Nelson's design pages, referred to a few posts up. The new safety valves that will be used with the boiler at only 200psi are being obtained from a maker in the US, but I haven't seen who that is. You might pm Old Kent Biker if it's a genuine inquiry for a project of your own?
     
  12. paulhitch

    paulhitch Guest

    I did wonder if Penberthy injectors might solve your boiler feed problems but I don't think they are rated for the sort of pressure you envisage running at. Foden and Sentinel steam lorries (particularly the latter) did run at such pressures. Have you had any consultations with the road steam people?

    PH
     
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    Genuine Penberthy injectors were available with high pressure cones (250 psi). However, the injectors fitted to Lyn appear to be cheap cardboard replicas of the original Penberthy.
     
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  16. Felix Holt

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    The background to the Lyn photo certainly looks more Woody Bay than Alan Keef!!?
     
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    It's amazing what can be done with Photoshop... ;)
     
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    Aaaaaaaaaah booo! Got all unnecessarily excited then
     
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    No - 762! :)
     

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