44/56 is westbound at Kenyon Junction on the old Liverpool & Manchester line.
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...
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...
Not cladding until the hydraulic and steam tests are completed. although I notice in the photo that the firebox cladding has been added.
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...
The pistons and valves are never in conflict, not like with an internal combustion engine where the valves open into the combustion chamber....
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...
My understanding is that the owners experimented with different cam profiles and those fitted differ from those when the engine was in BR service,...
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...
No 6201 was bought directly from BR by the 6210 Princess Elizabeth Society.
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!
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...
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?
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,...
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...
Good to see an old friend making a recovery. Well done, lads!
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...
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...
Yes, it was finished.
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...
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