There's am interesting comment in Peter Townend's book, LNER Pacifics Remembered. In the Chapter written by H. Rowley, he states Manganese liners...
On 72010, manganese steel liners are used on all hornguide faces including the tender. Cox discusses these in his book BR Standard Steam...
Sheff The casting and machining of the driving wheels has been generously sponsored by William Cook Cast Products. We still need all the other...
Big announcement today. William Cook Cast Products are going to cast and machine the 6 driving wheels for 72010. You can read about it here...
Latest news 1. Pony Truck wheels are now on order with Trefoil Steel in Sheffield. The job will involve casting and machining to 3mm over...
There is a great video here that gives a good flavour of the Open Day [MEDIA] Ian
The frames have been moved in the assembly shop today. Anyone know the last time that a set of Pacific locomotive frames were moved by 2 overhead...
We think we're pretty close to hitting a major milestone this week - the completion of the bogie wheelsets. The only drawings we had were the...
There is a list of drawings for BR Standards which you can find at...
The only reference I can find in the Locomotive Standards Sub Committee is the October 1960 minutes which under the heading of "Bogie and Pony...
Lots of progress today - see https://www.theclanproject.org/Clan_News.php We now have 4 bogie wheels on their assembled axleboxes. 61 tons...
Yes, correct. The original proposal was for a Standard Class 5 Pacific. Bond, in his autobiography says that "the new 4-6-2 was going to weigh...
A west Country Pacific 34004 Yeovil had shown what a Class 6 could do on the Highland line - "Allen estimates the net gain on schedule by Yeovil...
Hot off the press! Assembly of the bogie wheelsets has started today at South Devon Railway Engineering. See...
You aren't going to see a lot of change from last year because our prize exhibit (the bogie cannon boxes) will be down in South Devon However, we...
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