According to my records the train on 3rd May 2003 was assisted from Plymouth to Exeter but 5029 then continued to Bristol unassisted. It has to be...
Atkins records that the boiler lasted five years, doesn't say anything else. As far as I am aware there was no publicity about the fitment at the...
In his book West Coast 4-6-0s at work, C.P. Atkins reports that Claughton No 42 was fitted with a single thermic syphon in 1921, and the inner...
Rogers' book says the manufacturing fault was that the central portion of the stays had been machined to too small a diameter. Riddles was...
Tee photo on the Beamish website referred to above shows that no stays are needed between the inner and outer fireboxes but the backplate being...
Perhaps it is more surprising that the BR team designed a completely new boiler for the Clan (not as far as I am aware based on any earlier...
I don't believe that's correct. As a model, think of a pendulum clock: start the pendulum at one side and it has to complete a swing before...
I think the Lancashire and Yorkshire 2-4-2 tanks were the most numerous class, 330 in all, 1008 is preserved of course. Holcroft describes a ride...
As far as I am aware there was only one Jubilee with a double Kylchap, 5684 Jutland in 1937. It was too much of a good thing and the official...
The story of the Henschel - Wegmann zug is a bit more than that. The locomotive built in 1939 was a streamlined three cylinder 4-6-6 tank. This...
When the German class 01 pacifics were introduced in 1925 the tube length was 5.8 metres (around 19' so the same as Gresley's A1 and A3). It was...
One feature of the GW arrangement is the relatively short link connecting the rocker to the outside valve. As the rocker moves to the back of its...
There must be something wrong here. The prototype N1 was not completed until 1923 and the K1 in 1925, so could not have been discussed at a...
According to Holcroft's autobiography he was still working for the Government at the time of the meeting with Gresley. He reports that Gresley...
The use of conjugated valve gear in Germany has come up before on another thread, in particular it was applied to large numbers of G12 2-10-0s....
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