70000 Britannia

I'm sure 70000 had air braking when she ran at the NVR so maybe this is a case of having it re-fitted.

 

It would need doing 'properly' this time though, my understanding is that it was done in a way that allowed it to work with air trains with the ejector / vac system shut down and the air having direct control of the steam brake, or the ejector running with the air system shut down. The vacuum side would need slaving to air for the AWS etc requirements

 

Pete Waterman has posted some pictures of Britannia's boiler
http://pete.railnuts.com/

 

Ive split out the two posts discussing Pete Waterman's blog, relating to Apprenticeships into a new Topic in General Railway Chat

viewtopic.php?f=106&t=19998&start=0

 

I'm going to be over in the UK in early August and I was hoping to see Britannia - is it viewable to the public, and if so where exactly?
Thanks
Jim

 

Britannia is currently at the L&NWR Heritage Ltd. works adjacent to the Crewe Heritage Centre. The only components that can be seen are the tender, the old cab and a nameplate mounted on the wall of the shed where the chassis is housed:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=53.093517,-2.436004&spn=0.001155,0.003433&t=h&z=19

The boiler is being worked on in the main building.

Regards,

Dan

 

Its at Crewe Heritage Centre http://www.crewewheritagecentre.co.uk

It is viewable to the public, but its currently a rolling chassis with its unfinished boiler dropped on the frames.