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  1. 26D_M replied to the thread Oil Firing.

    Sometimes driven by parties with a vested interest and no accountability .....

    Jul 30, 2026 at 2:33 PM

  2. 26D_M replied to the thread Oil Firing.

    Weren't some B1s given steel boxes?

    Jul 30, 2026 at 1:05 PM

  3. 26D_M liked TonyW's post in the thread Oil Firing.

    At the Festiniog we used to just "turn them off", and that would be it. So, presumably, the answer to your question is "Yes". The loco would then be cleaned and inspected on an outdoors pit then driven - gently - back in to the shed usually...

    Jul 30, 2026 at 12:24 PM

  4. 26D_M liked torgormaig's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I had a memorable run to Battersby one glorious spring evening firing to Fletch (the late John Fletcher) on Tornado. We only went from Grosmont, not Whitby, and as you say it was a short lived experiement but what a lovely evening turn it was - a...

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  5. 26D_M liked Leviathan's post in the thread Oil Firing.

    Bob Meanley’s magnum opus on Swindon in the steam age, Wiltshire Wisdom, includes a section on the short-lived post-war oil firing scheme. The GWR conversions used heavy fuel oil (Bunker C) which due to its viscosity presented some challenges,...

    Jul 30, 2026 at 11:02 AM

  6. 26D_M liked Nigel Day's post in the thread Oil Firing.

    Below is a file which will tell you you the answers to most of the questions on this thread

    Jul 30, 2026 at 9:16 AM

  7. 26D_M replied to the thread Oil Firing.

    Considering disposal at the end of a shift, with a conventional coal fired loco it would be typical to break the fire up but leave it in the firebox to gradually burn down, thus slowing the cooling and contraction process down. Is there an...

    Jul 30, 2026 at 8:43 AM

  8. 26D_M liked LMS2968's post in the thread Oil Firing.

    No. Steel boxes were a rarity on Britain anyway and going to oil fuel was made on standard copper boxes. As I've pointed out previously, the copper boxes in the Middle East 8Fs weren't worried by oil firing. I don't know if the GWR ever used...

    Jul 29, 2026 at 9:22 PM

  9. 26D_M replied to the thread Oil Firing.

    Did the oil burning Halls and 28xx have steel boxes back in the day?

    Jul 29, 2026 at 7:48 PM

  10. 26D_M replied to the thread Oil Firing.

    So possibility of using 2873's boiler as an oil fire conversion if it has no planned usage? I don't know how much work there would be adapting 4965's boiler nor how easy to revert to coal fired. Then there's the tender fuel bunker to adapt. 4965...

    Jul 29, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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