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  1. torgormaig a plăcut postul lui Steve în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    If you do the sums, 76079 is better suited to the NYMR than a Black 5 and, in terms of tractive effort, it has pretty much the same as a Black 5 in hand on 7 coach trains. Why better suited? A Black 5 weighs more and that extra weight has to be...

    11 Mai 2026 la 21:29

  2. torgormaig a răspuns la subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Sorry to see her go - a capable and user friendly loco and in my opinion well suited to the Moors, especially with the lighter trains that we seem to run theses days. But she does need a lot of money spending on her which it seems that Strathspey...

    11 Mai 2026 la 16:42

  3. torgormaig a plăcut postul lui Steve în subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Not wrong there, Peter. Oil firing can be used on copper boxes but they tend to suffer more as a result as flame temperatures can reach well over 2000degC and even with protective refractory insulation, they will feel it. You don't get blue...

    9 Mai 2026 la 23:24

  4. torgormaig a răspuns la subiectul North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I think that you need to think carefully which locos are suitable (in their current form) for conversion to oil firing. S160s, yes- WD 2-10-0s yes- Bulleid Pacifics yes - but the rest, I'm not so sure. As I understand it, the rapid temperature...

    9 Mai 2026 la 19:34

  5. torgormaig a răspuns la subiectul 6024 King Edward 1.

    Seat? They are for the old codger known as the driver. Those of us at the coal face think the "fireman's seat" is where the footplate passenger goes to be out of the way - but when there are two people to occupy it it doesn't work very well:(....

    9 Mai 2026 la 10:09

  6. torgormaig a răspuns la subiectul 6024 King Edward 1.

    That's all very well for the driver but makes life very difficult for the fireman. The driver stays in one place but the firemans job entails him moving about the cab, needing room to swing his shovel and also keep a good lookout from his side of...

    9 Mai 2026 la 07:56

  7. torgormaig a plăcut postul lui Mike Wylie în subiectul Jacobite 2026.

    Ha ha, true story. Not been the same for a few years. Was great in its day.

    6 Mai 2026 la 20:17

  8. torgormaig a plăcut postul lui Apollo12 în subiectul Jacobite 2026.

    The Grog was dead a year or so ago when they stopped doing curly fries.

    6 Mai 2026 la 13:05
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