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  1. Jimc
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    Tornado

    As someone who has spent many an hour attempting to get some kind of rational information from his colleagues in one voluntary group or another I...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏10 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    William Aston, Cambrian Railways

    Don't forget that designing rolling stock was only a small part of a CMEs job, especially on a smallish line like the Cambrian. The CME's primary...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏8 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    I just came across an interesting quote. Its from a discussion on the paper 'The development of L.N.E.R. locomotive design by B. Spencer', for the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏8 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Coal the fuel of the past.

    My concern though is the experience. Coal smoke - or should we say combustion products - for some reason are a lot more acceptable than heavy oil....
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏8 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E.

    But what is influence can be a complicated subject... Would we agree that all subsequent engineers were influenced by Webb not to try divided...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏7 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E.

    I must confess I never saw a need to contact the Great Western Society about my book. Indeed it didn't even occur to me. Clearly its a major...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏6 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    45305, and her ex-Barry Connecting Rods.

    I sometimes wonder if the history of those days needs to be completed by a carefully researched volume of "Who Stole What from Barry".
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏5 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    One might note that it can be argued that there wasn't much real novelty in Churchward's types, and they were much more a synthesis of ideas from...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏4 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    A definitive attack of big chufferitis?
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏2 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    Here's a thought. We know that in the 1950s Sam Ell's design and testing regime at Swindon made major advances in the steaming of various types,...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏2 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    As a relatively small thing its recorded (Durrant, Swindon Steam) that in the 1930s the GWR changed their steam chest design to increase the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏1 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    Well exactly. And there's a case to argue that the A1 is the only example of a new build/renewal project that has the effect of providing an...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏31 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    Well, I shall be interested to see if this "generally supportive/fictitious allegations/malicious mischief" etc policy is extended to the GWS and...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏30 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    I don't think a lack of water for the injectors would be quite as big a worry as having absolutely nothing behind you to stop you falling off the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏28 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Railway History Books: Suggested Reading

    Here are the two Holcroft volumes for the SR list. My copy of Vol 1 doesn't have a publication date that I can see. HOLCROFT, H, Locomotive...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏28 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    Something Stanier brought from Swindon?
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏27 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    As ever I don't believe there was any one loading gauge, but here is the standardised Berne gauge (orange) against the GC loading gauge (cyan) and...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏27 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    And if you upgrade all the structure, bearings and everything else to cope with the extra loads then you are tons over the weight budget, so the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏27 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    And if Gresley had modified his locomotives to give much more horsepower, then wouldn't the result have been appalling reliability due to his...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏27 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    The sentence appears to be talking about tender systems, so would these pistons be part of the braking arrangements on the tender, and not the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Jimc, ‏25 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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