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Isn't that a page out of the Build Schedule?

 

Yeah its the "Rebuilds bill of materials"

 

Slightly surprised by that but just shows you shouldn't believe everything you read in books. Maybe I should have said '58. Anyway according to E.S.Beavor, it was 72A with 29 light pacifics and 8 merchants. He was shedmaster at Exmouth Jct from 56 to 58. His view being an LNER/GC man was that some nice V2s would have been just fine for what the light pacifics were tasked with doing.

 

Do I get a prize?

 

Profuse apologies. Yes you get the medal. Or rather you do if you can convince @std tank !

 

January 1960.
34A 19 A4 12 A3 Total 31
52A 8 A4 13 A3 14 A1 4 A2 Total 39
64B 7 A4 15 A3 5 A1 10 A2 Total 37
72A 35 WC/BB 7 MN Total 42

Can we get back to 35011?

 

Just posted an article to our website wrote by Graham Muspratt looking at GSNs mystery hole. An interesting read looking at something I didnt know existed on Bulleids

https://35011gsn.co.uk/Technical and Education Centre/how-it-works/sand-gun.html

 

That's most kind! Would certainly be up for that. Hopefully we can arrange once Covid and Lockdowns are done.

 

Stewarts Lane?

Richard.

 

Don’t forget the next batch of ‘Clans’ too

 

The answer has already been given, it was Exmouth Junction. Stewart’s Land didn’t have that many Pacifics.

 

I remember reading somewhere LMS Coronations were considered to take over Bulleid Pacific’s but there seemed to be a gauging issue with Southampton tunnel.

 

If the intention is to go back to what Bulleid designed, I still think it would be best to go back to the (spur?) gears that Bulleid would have used if he could rather than the chain drive which (as I understand) was a wartime compromise. I don't know whether that would have done anything to avoid the weaknesses that prompted the rebuilding, but maybe someone can enlighten us.

 

I am wondering what a bunch of Southern Clans would have been named? Cenimagni, Regnenses, or maybe more in keeping with their time: Krays, Richardsons...

 

Weren’t Mr Jarvis’s loco’s supposed to take over West Coast services at some point?

 

In all seriousness there is a list in the RCTS book about the Pacific’s, my copy is unfortunately in Worcestershire.

 

I have always been puzzled by the lack of chain adjustment for wear. Would guess that maintenance on the chain and associated problems with the valve gear locked up inside the oil bath was costly and time consuming.
I doubt it was a popular job working on anything in the middle cylinder world.

 

Or even 3D mockups.