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35028, "Clan Line"

Rasprava u 'Steam Traction' pokrenuta od KentYeti, 23. Svibanj 2010..

  1. Jon Martin

    Jon Martin New Member

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    have steam trains ever gone downhill before?
     
  2. class8mikado

    class8mikado Part of the furniture

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    Perhaps with all this talk of RSS feeds and instant text messaging the old girls injectors went on strike, fearing that they were destined to become an information superhighway for steamies interested in the Hengist project (Clan-line)...groan...
     
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    Spamcan81 Nat Pres stalwart

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    Possibly not if one poster's theory is to be believed. The gradient in question is just a few yards of 1 in 100 so it's not exactly the steepest gradient 35028 or any other MN has ever encountered. :)
     
  4. martin butler

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    how about the wrong type of water? , just as an insight what water treatment do they use? with 35028 im not saying its a cause or anything, but i remember once we changed water treatment and it was contaminated, the tender ended up looking like a bubble bath, but that was someone deliberatly tampering with it
     
  5. Oakfield

    Oakfield Guest

    The treatment of water depends on the nature of the water being treated. To use an incorrect treatment for the chemical balance of the water can be worse than using none at all.

    With a locomotive on a main line tour, filling up with several different supplies of water throughout the day of an unknown quality, water treatment becomes a nightmare.

    However I feel certain that the NMLPS will have considered these points in their investigations and would once again call for an end to speculation on this thread and await the NMLPS's conclusions.

    The best part of this thread of late has been the humour generated!
     
  6. Jon Martin

    Jon Martin New Member

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    was just wondering if this whole downhill thing was something that has only started happening in preservation, and infact the real reason for the end of steam in the BR days was that all locos were stuck at the top of hills and couldn't get back down
     
  7. GWRman

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    I've heard it all now.... :doh:
     
  8. Steve from GWR

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    Just out of curiosity, how did they cope with water treatment in steam days when there were many long-distance expresses everyday and water troughs, station water towers etc were the norm?
     
  9. martin butler

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    the bit about wrong type of water was in ref to my joke about western water turning to sludge in bulleid boilers !! , the water treatment , was a general question mostly because fire hydrants dont tend to be so well maintained these days
     
  10. Oakfield

    Oakfield Guest

    Sorry for any mis-understanding. Would the wrong type of water come from the wrong type of snow we had earlier in the year?
     
  11. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    So is that why Woodhams had to stop cutting up steam locos as their yard was nearly at sea level? :)
     
  12. richards

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    Never mind sending Southern engines on GWR metals, wasn't Clan Line due to take a railtour up to York? No wonder it got worried. All those stories about engines having their smokeboxes made all pointy. Someone just needs to talk to Clan Line nicely and promise never to go outside of the Southern - then its injectors will probably start working fine again. Either that, or the owners can follow Rev Awdry's idea and brick it up in a tunnel until it stops being stroppy.

    Richard
     
  13. Matt35027

    Matt35027 Well-Known Member

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    She heard what them York lot did to 35029
     
  14. richards

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    Oh yes. Maybe it was a surprise raid to rescue her hacked-up sister and bring her back home again. All very hush-hush, under cover of a public railtour. Nobody would have guessed, although the double-header back south might have looked a bit strange ...

    Richard
     
  15. Steve from GWR

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    I'm sure you're right there, it was immediately before she was due to go where poor old 35029 got done for. No wonder she pulled a sickie.

    I bet she's now back tucked up in the shed saying "it's all right, I'm OK, I feel fine now, let me out to play" and the doctors are all saying "I think you'd best leave us to decide that young lady, you just take it easy in here, we have some more tests we'd like to do"
     
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    Young? She over 60...
     
  17. KentYeti

    KentYeti Guest

    Oi.

    60 is young!
     
  18. RalphW

    RalphW Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Administrator Friend

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    You obviously have no idea how to keep a lady happy, a bit of flattery goes a long way, but you do have to say it with conviction, if she suspects you are just trying it on..:bolt:
     
  19. martin butler

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    ahh yes sussed it, its a combination of things,
    she gets tramourised by having to travel over tracks that can be known to widen without notice,

    then also at the back of her mind she remembers her old sisters, when they said they were going to a retirement home at newport , some where on the WR
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    then they start sending her onto the same regions tracks, she then gets given the wrong water and gets water poisoning,
    and someone tries to put copper and brass on her

    in her mind she remembers the last time someone did something like that, she was so proud of her nice green dress , and it brought back very bad childhood memories then to cap it all a passing 67 told her about what york did to her sister and that was going to be her next destination

    Given such traumatic experiences she should be given time to regain her health and the best place is where she feels safest on the sw main line hauling green coaches and the odd occational pulman
     
  20. Steve

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    Ah! there we have it, Clan Line didn't like being bullied!

    Then again, Perhaps the shortage of water at the injectors was caused by the super acceleration that this loco has causing all the water in the tender to surge to the back. You never know....
     

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