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    Best & Worst Locos to Drive

    I assume that journey didn't involve pinning down brakes on the wagons for the descent, going by the relative weights and your not mentioning it....
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏26 أوت 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    French GWR Loco to id please

    Not in the same way. The problem is the cylinder diameter, a 240P had approx 25.6" diameter inside cylinders, which means that the distance...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏25 أوت 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Best & Worst Locos to Drive

    I take it you're not very keen on 45379 then?
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏2 أوت 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Best & Worst Locos to Drive

    I'll risk his legion of copyright lawyers, on behalf of forum members who may not have a copy just lying about: "I liked the arrangement for...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏1 أوت 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Best & Worst Locos to Drive

    The odd thing about the Drummond/Stirling reverser question is that Holcroft, who could be expected to be familiar with the SECR pattern, was very...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏1 أوت 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Surviving nineteenth century standard gauge locomotives

    I'm not convinced an increase in boiler pressure is required to make more modern ancillaries work. I've followed Andy Chapman's blog regarding...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏29 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Surviving nineteenth century standard gauge locomotives

    Indeed, which leads to the question of how much you worry about exact authenticity in the internal detail. For Beachy Head there are some (one?)...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏29 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Surviving nineteenth century standard gauge locomotives

    Something like this, perhaps? I know that availability of information on the internet is by no means indicative of how much is in the archives...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏29 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    MHR Restorations and Overhauls

    This reply shouldn't be treated as coming from any authority, because I'm not, but whenever I've seen it out the MHR demonstration freight has...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏25 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    35018 British India Line

    I suggest Rail Blue as per the the Vale of Rheidol tanks in the '70s, with a double arrow on the tender. The rebuilds were originally projected...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏21 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Best & Worst Locos to Drive

    I agree that story doesn't really ring true, since from the GA of the D15 what they would actually have seen was the S-bend in the exhaust...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏6 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Best & Worst Locos to Drive

    Ah, somebody else remembers the Goss story. I also recall that Bulleid was slightly surprised to find that the results he got from the Goss...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏5 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Best & Worst Locos to Drive

    Funnily enough, I'd have cited the King Arthur as the prime example of Maunsell not being too proud to take ideas from elsewhere. The SR needed...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏3 جويلية 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman Speed

    Can somebody with knowledge of the log clarify, when Rous-Martens refers to five successive quarter miles, does that mean over 1.25 miles total...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏27 جوان 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    As usual, @Steve covers it succinctly and I'm going to waffle on. Steel is a lovely forgiving material, that if well protected and moderately...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏14 جوان 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Locomotive Front End Designs

    I believe when the rebuilt Bulleids first emerged there was some concern that the very long smokebox would make it awkward to shovel out ash, but...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏10 جوان 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    LSWR T1 new build ?

    I don't have the time right now to find out how to do either of the latter, but I can give you an idea of the weights. D.L. Bradley is your...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏8 جوان 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Edward Thompson: Wartime C.M.E. Discussion

    Oh, I wouldn't deny it could be done (although I'm imagining the exhaust beat from your hypothetical design there and I think it might be...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏8 جوان 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Edward Thompson: Wartime C.M.E. Discussion

    There certainly are valid engineering reasons why you might choose not to design a 3 cylinder engine with a larger middle cylinder; if you get the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏7 جوان 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Locomotive Front End Designs

    Depends how you raise the power output, I would argue. While I haven't run numbers, I think the higher boiler pressure (and in preservation main...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 8126, ‏7 جوان 2016 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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