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  1. 242A1
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    You have a time machine and you can go back to the 50s/60s and save one Engine. Which would it be ?

    Why only a cosmetic effort? If you are going to dream then dream on a grand scale. Go back to the original but finish the design modifications...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏25 ديسمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    You have a time machine and you can go back to the 50s/60s and save one Engine. Which would it be ?

    As 240P15 has already made what for me would be the obvious choice I would have to go for Chapelon's other great experiment 160A1. Maybe the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏22 ديسمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    NRM's J17

    That is good to know. But where did the rumour of wooden mock-up fittings come from?
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏18 ديسمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    4468 Vs 05 002

    Mallard? Crank? Try middle big end bearing getting hot. Wouldn't have happened if the regulator had not been fully closed so robbing the cylinder...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏14 ديسمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
  6. 242A1
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    What Ifs, and Locos that never were.

    Have a look at the through cylinder cross section of 242A1. The inside, high pressure cylinder, has the valves underneath it. We are used to...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏6 ديسمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
  7. 242A1
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    231E41 Restoration Can Start in Earnest

    The restoration continues steadily away, the locomotive and tender being slowly dismantled, with some components already being restored to...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏25 نوفمبر 2017 في منتدى: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  8. 242A1
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    In the 1850s the GNR considered driving wheels slightly in excess of 8' in diameter to be necessary for express passenger work. By 1898 6' 8" in...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏10 نوفمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Thank you. Clears things up nicely. Challenging is the word.
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏9 نوفمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Advanced steam tech for narrow gauge locos

    I think that the experimental 160A1 will remain the best example of the application of compounding to steam locomotives for some time yet. The...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏8 نوفمبر 2017 في منتدى: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Flying Scotsman

    Gradients not much of an issue, the engine did very well on Cowan bank which is 1 in 40 or 1 in 37 depending on which source you read. The...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏5 نوفمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Not quite sure what you are asking here but I assume that you are wondering if the locomotive has been gauged for acceptance over the full route...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏5 نوفمبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Ian Riley posted on The Works forum that the locomotive was re-wheeled today. The plan is for it to be run in and taken to London ready for...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏30 اكتوبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Advanced steam tech for narrow gauge locos

    I appreciate that 15" gauge is an area for debate, some see it as miniature and others narrow but development continues on this gauge. Nigel Day...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏28 اكتوبر 2017 في منتدى: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Porta's locomotive.......

    It is very much like any other country. The ordinary people that you meet are very much one thing however those with political positions or...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏10 اكتوبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Porta's locomotive.......

    Neither did Martyn Bane. But that is another story. The drawbar horsepower produced by this machine was 2120. And it was a metre gauge...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏10 اكتوبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Porta's locomotive.......

    Worse than tragic. But the knowledge that brought about this magnificent engine is available to all who wish to use it. Whether people desire to...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏9 اكتوبر 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    On the subject of unified vs divided drive people involved in the design and building of locomotives are very much in favour of the former. Though...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏28 أوت 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    The original trust proposal was the next engine to be built to the Peppercorn A1 design, and this was achieved. Some modifications were inevitable...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏22 أوت 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Green Arrow

    I don't believe that the NRM will ever take on another major overhaul themselves. If one is ever to be carried out it will be outsourced. They...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏20 أوت 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Download the document. It has unified drive and the author states his case quite plainly. His view was that if you're going to build a new engine...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏20 أوت 2017 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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