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  1. LMS2968
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    New photos of Pre 1968 Steam Locomotives of the LMS & B.R. London Midland Region

    44/56 is westbound at Kenyon Junction on the old Liverpool & Manchester line.
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 6 Juni 2025 um 08:19 im Forum: Photography
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    Flying Scotsman

    There isn't a training programme for individual steam engines, unlike diesels: if you can drive one you can drive them all. But you're quite right...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 4 Juni 2025 um 13:25 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    GCR Black 5 No 45491

    Yes, I know; it's how I'd do it too. The point being made was that the hydraulic test cannot be done with the cladding sheets in place. Having the...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 3 Juni 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    GCR Black 5 No 45491

    Not cladding until the hydraulic and steam tests are completed. although I notice in the photo that the firebox cladding has been added.
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 3 Juni 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    71000

    No, each side drives both admission and exhaust valves on that side. The middle valves are driven by a cross shaft from one of the outer camshaft...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 30 Mai 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    71000

    The pistons and valves are never in conflict, not like with an internal combustion engine where the valves open into the combustion chamber....
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 29 Mai 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    71000

    I'm struggling a bit with those figures and wonder how they were obtained. Stanier Pacific 6225 in 1955 and 1956, both on the rollers at Rugby and...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 27 Mai 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    71000

    My understanding is that the owners experimented with different cam profiles and those fitted differ from those when the engine was in BR service,...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 24 Mai 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    71000

    Poppet valves tend to open and close much faster than piston or slide valves, effectively giving larger port openings at the beginning and and of...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 24 Mai 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    Locomotives Preserved at Butlins Holiday Camps

    No 6201 was bought directly from BR by the 6210 Princess Elizabeth Society.
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 10 Mai 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    Railways and People

    Real guards don't wear shiny uniforms but a dust coat, carry a shunting pole and ride at the back, well away from megalomaniac drivers!
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 8 Mai 2025 im Forum: Photography
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    Leeds station & Holbeck shed in the 1960's

    I think 31/57 is actually 8295. 8245 never existed at that time; it was the last in the gap 8226-8245. They were built to WD orders in 1940 and...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 14 April 2025 im Forum: Photography
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    6201, her new lease of life.

    A nice idea and I'd certainly love to see it. As you say, certainly not non-stop and possibly over a few days there and back?
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 11 April 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    6201, her new lease of life.

    There are two unbreakable rules on Nat Pres: 1) If the owner wishes to paint his engine in any livery he chooses, no matter how fictitious,...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 10 April 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    Steam Locomotive Proportions, Ratios, and Equations

    That's a pretty long piece of string you're asking about. Generally, there are too many variables, even between locos intended to perform similar...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 28 März 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    46447 Overhaul

    Good to see an old friend making a recovery. Well done, lads!
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 24 März 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    GCR Black 5 No 45491

    I don't know if it's universal but we still have the ability to press out a tubeplate. This is 2968's prior to fitting, taken 3 August 2017 and 6...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 3 März 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    New photos of Pre 1968 Steam Locomotives of the LMS & B.R. London Midland Region

    The locals weren't part of running-in turns but part of a normal diagram. In those days, Crewe North's turntable was only 60ft diameter and too...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 2 März 2025 im Forum: Photography
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    New Saddle Tank for GWR 813

    Yes, it was finished.
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 26 Februar 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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    Front couplings

    The WDs were not suited to passenger duty. They pulled and steamed well enough, but there was no balancing of the reciprocating masses so once...
    Beitrag von: LMS2968, 25 Februar 2025 im Forum: Steam Traction
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