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30854 · 5 jan 2020

LMS2968 zei: ↑

The plan was, I understand, to use oil firing but oil imports were very much reduced just after WWII. Britain was skint with little in the bank; the emphasis was on exporting rather than importing. Basically, it was home produced coal or nothing. The big plan to convert many engines to oil firing, and for which the oil storage tanks were built t some sheds, fell at the same hurdle.
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With WWII coal shortages still a recent memory in (southern) Ireland, the same rationale drove development OVSB's 'Turf Burner' for the CIÉ.

MellishR · 6 jan 2020

domeyhead zei: ↑

I don't think gradient is the reason for lack of Southern troughs Tom - it's population density. In the north, faster trains could run up to 100 miles or more between major stops - something that never happened in the South because station stops even for expresses were typically closer together. On the south western main lines all express trains stopped at Southampton or Salisbury (70 miles from London) so water replenishment was made then. As you say, a Southern pacific tender could handle the requirement without the need for troughs. Had they been required the stretch between Farnborough and Basingstoke offered plenty of scope for them but no trains ran the distances between stops that would have required them.
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Yes there are several places on that stretch where troughs could have been installed, and one more a bit further on at Oakley. But after that there's only one more level stretch, around 110 miles from Waterloo. So you could keep refilling a small tender for the first 110 miles but with no further refills you wouldn't have nearly enough for all the banks the rest of the way to Exeter.

(Not that this has anything to do with the Leader.)

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