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  1. 26D_M odgovara u temi North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Which is a deception by omission.

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 19:35

  2. 26D_M odgovara u temi Fire Risk.

    Agreeing with your point but if that was circa 2008 Alan there wouldn't be anyone with experience of firing the LN within 20+ years and approaching 50 years with ex BR knowledge. It ran for 5 years or so in the early 80s, so maybe 25 firing...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 17:29

  3. 26D_M odgovara u temi Fire Risk.

    I agree with that and it is more straightforward to qualify for firing even though it is arguably the more skilled role [emoji6] Your situation with the Atlantic mirrors our experience when the B12 visited and I imagine if it vists Bluebell in...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 17:11

  4. 26D_M liked andrewtoplis's post in the thread Fire Risk.

    It's probably worth remembering that there aren't an infinite supply of different classes of loco...and they aren't infinitely different. Within driver or fireman training, you would expect building up the core skills to take place over time and...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 16:55

  5. 26D_M liked 21B's post in the thread Fire Risk.

    The differences in faults and failures is the main reason. If you don’t know where the distributor release is on a class 20, you won’t find it and knowing where it is on a 47/4 isn’t much help either.

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 16:00

  6. 26D_M odgovara u temi Fire Risk.

    I suppose I'm saying the principles of assessment and demonstrated compentce I was familiar with weren't that much different for steam relative to diesel but other organisations may have been less granular for steam than diesel. I don't know much...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 15:59

  7. 26D_M odgovara u temi Fire Risk.

    I suppose the answer to that, in part, is how onerous it is to assess and pass someone once they have a ticket for 25, say, for a 33? Plus variants of sub class?! I'm sure its possible to do some serious damage by being unaware of a small but...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 13:35

  8. 26D_M liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Fire Risk.

    I think we are going away from fire risk, so maybe this is worth its own thread, but I suspect - on heritage railways at least, I can't speak for mainline operators - there is an element of "we do it that way because we always have". In BR days,...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 13:04

  9. 26D_M odgovara u temi Fire Risk.

    That's not exactly how it would work because a 57xx has some features which a 28xx doesn't and vice versa so distinct knowledge and competence would need to be demonstrated. As another example 828 and 1300 are both on paper ex LMS 0-6-0 tender...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 12:40

  10. 26D_M odgovara u temi Fire Risk.

    It was true from my time on the footplate [at ELR] that you were signed off for different traction types within the broad steam category. So you might be passed out for LMS/BR std but not GWR, LNER until further competence shown. Then there might...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 11:04

  11. 26D_M odgovara u temi Fire Risk.

    The largest loco I've seen fitted with a 'basket' was an NCB Austerity at Graig Merthyr Colliery. The duty involved taking trains of empties up a steeply graded 2 mile branch in a narrow valley. So I imagine there was significant propensity to...

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 09:46

  12. 26D_M liked LMS2968's post in the thread Oil Firing..

    They certainly weren't fitted in Britain.

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 09:30

  13. 26D_M odgovara u temi East Lancashire Railway.

    First visit to ELR since August 1993? Although 499 was at Bury for quite while in the 90s IIRC.

    28. Srpanj 2026. u 09:30
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