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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    The National Archives.
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 13, 2026 at 4:58 PM in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    The extant ones are not ex-BR but I remain very sceptical that the BR ones were modified.
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 13, 2026 at 11:33 AM in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    The 2-8-0s had copper fireboxes, not steel. What is your source for that? This comment is from Roland Bond in the discussion following the...
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 12, 2026 at 4:58 PM in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    https://www.locomotives.com.pl/Freight%20Steam%20Locomotives/Tr202.htm...
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 8, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    If you go into BRDatabase - the Complete British Railways Locomotive Database 1948-1997, and in the second box on the left click "Classes" then...
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 5, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    The WD 2-8-0 was actually tested along with a WD 2-10-0 in an official BR Report (Bulletin No 7 in 1953). Like a number of locos tested, the...
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 5, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    The Princess may have had more clearance as they did not have the GWR's idée fixe about horizontal cylinders (which caused the latter to adopt a...
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 5, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    1. The attached crop is of a Baldwin Midland Railway 2-6-0 from the wikipedia page (Baldwin 16631). There appears to be a swing link frame and no...
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 5, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    O1 [ATTACH]
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 5, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    ？The WD had a swing link truck.
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 4, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    I would not disagree.
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 4, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    Drawings from the 1948 Interchange Trials report. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 4, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Austerity 2-8-0 query

    I am not sure a simple (based on", "derived from" etc) is answerable as those are subjective terms. The obvious differences are (referring to the...
    Post by: huochemi, Jan 4, 2026 in forum: Steam Traction