26D_Ms letzte Aktivitäten
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26D_M antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Which is a deception by omission.
28 Juli 2026 um 19:35 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 17:29 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 17:11 -
26D_M gefällt andrewtopliss Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 16:55 -
26D_M gefällt 21Bs Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 16:00 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 15:59 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 13:35 -
26D_M gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 13:04 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 12:40 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 11:04 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema 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 Juli 2026 um 09:46 -
26D_M gefällt LMS2968s Beitrag in dem Thema Oil Firing..
They certainly weren't fitted in Britain.
28 Juli 2026 um 09:30 -
26D_M antwortete auf das Thema East Lancashire Railway.
First visit to ELR since August 1993? Although 499 was at Bury for quite while in the 90s IIRC.
28 Juli 2026 um 09:30
