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Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by richard67, Jul 22, 2012.

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  1. Spamcan81

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    It certainly did the business during the Shap time trials back in 1995(?). The thrash was amazing. IIRC the final mile to the summit was full regulator and full cut off.
     
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  2. RalphW

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    Lets hope she goes as well as she looks. It's a long time since I last travelled behind her, round the Cumbrian coast to Carlisle and back the same way.
     
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    A beautiful job. The line of rivets on the tender suggests that the rear of the Lion emblem is a tad higher than at the front, but nobody will notice that when it's on the move and that's what everyone is looking forward to seeing again.
     
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  4. Dan Hill

    Dan Hill Part of the furniture

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    A great atmospheric picture. I missed that run down this way, but I had a cracking run behind it from York to Carlisle over the S&C around this sort of time in 2006. I remember us flying through Keighley as they had some locos in the station.

    With the locos performance during it's previous tickets, I very much looking forward to how the loco performs with further modifications and improvements made it.
     
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    At least it’s a proper BR totem. Wasn’t there some daft idea about having The Duke rather than British Railways on it?
     
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    I have seen it only once, and that was on the ECML. I hope to see it again, and soon.
     
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    I may be horribly wrong but was it not said that this overhaul they have gone back to the original design rather than the GTi XR3i Cosworth etc improvements from the last stint of operation .
     
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    Funny that as I have always disliked them.
     
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    Think they look ok with black wheels.
    Didnt that consist of tweaking the cam profiles and valve materials... ? AFAIK Its gone back closer to as originally restored rather than as originally designed.
    ( Source PBSLocos page - In December 2018 it was reported that a new set of Caprotti inlet and exhaust cams are to be produced for the locomotive to the 1954 original design to reverse a modification made at its previous overhaul.)
    Given its one of the most efficient locos of its size now having a Ten tonne tender with a coal pusher no longer seems appropriate even if part of its history, perhaps when the tender tank is life expired that will get a rethink...
     
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    They're not easy to keep looking good but are now something of a tradition on the Jubilee...
     
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    Thank you, Dan. You may have missed out photographically, but you;vew done better than me as far as haulage is concerned. My only experience of 71000 was a short run on the West Somerset in 1995. All the same, I can still remember it - "Washford Bank? Molehill more likely!" It absolutely flattened the climb (1 in 65 at steepest). I'd love to sample her on the main line this time round.
     
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