Well early 80s the Ravenglass and Eskdale had a serious experiment with a gas producer firebox - Prof. Sharpe of Queen Mary College - and among...
Would like to demur disinictly from the comments above on the Hankow Canton 4-8-4 and the Japanese Bullet train. Both on the grounds of what ought...
Regrettable indeed but understandable. It was the nearest thing then surviving to the major landmark design that Dugald Drummonds Abbotsford of...
This was actually a continued improvement of the Leader - with two people seconded from BR to Inchicore. This time it was one prototype only and...
Couldn't agree more. The nearest to an exception I would make is that a spare boiler is a great thing to have ready to go straight on. The...
Certainly done with quite a few recent DMUs for the railways in Ireland. It doesn't seem to be readily possible to make the carriage bodies wider...
I had been going to suggest that "Was this as simple as that there were no drawings that showed what in the present building was original & when...
Build more of Maunsell's three cylinder 0-8-0 Zs - quietly very effective & reliable with the even torque enhancing the total adhesion. However...
Weight is the big consideration we have not talked about. It bedevilled designs. A lot of excellent locomotives gave trouble overtly originally...
Outside admission does give an advantage for the exhaust passage from the valve chest - which can be effectively larger and straighter to the...
Nigel, I wonder if you could enlarge a little on your highest back pressures and where your lowest smokebox vacuums were. What might have been...
Rocket combined two major advances, the one which is always remembered was what was the mutitubular boiler - an absolute first. The other was...
It sounds a right fiddly job and I would wonder about the plates springing back after straightening and not staying quite true. Have new frames...
Thank you very much for the details. I had been wondering if that extraordinary press run behind Silver Link - then very new and as it was unique...
I may have been too terse in my previous comment. There was a speed limit through Grantham and to go really fast down Stoke depended on seriously...
You are quite right about the need about the need for good water treatment with a steel box - in N Wales you need to ensure some alkalinity in the...
Very interested. Knew twenty or thirty years ago how surprisingly accurate a flame cutter could readily be - accurate enough to cut the teeth...
This does lead to interesting conjecture: what voltage do they generate? A 100 volts DC, I presume originally, but did it creep up? And if so...
In 1921 three white discs as on 444 would have meant either to Bournemouth West via Sway fromWaterloo or to Windsor via the "loop line". Given...
The 15xx was intended for Newport Docks, unfortunately it turned out to be too wide to be usable there, so they ended up the Eastern end of the...
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