Thanks, very interesting. There are also some other very interesting images in the reports albeit somewhat small, such as the image of the...
Thanks, that is interesting, I wonder how much that is costing? (There is an update at...
Thanks. That sort of suggests that the monel stays (or perhaps the copper plate around the holes) wears fairly quickly and there was a general...
Thank you, interesting. I noticed the references to copper stays. I thought all Standards had monel stays. Perhaps some were built with copper or...
The coupling rod bushes and knuckle-joint pins had to be replaced on the 1954 tests due to wear. The report states that the original bushes were...
BR testing was done in 1954. Test reports in general were more aimed at operating the locos within likely service parameters rather than...
Interesting discussion. There are certainly plenty of things about Caprotti gear which I do not understand but among rotary cam poppet valves,...
Thank you, that is helpful.
Thank you. What do you think the reason was for excluding the L&B from the grouping was? Were perhaps negotiations with the LSWR well underway?
Can you expand on that rather off the wall comment? The L&BR was dissolved under the Southern Railway Act of 1923 (Clause 60, Clauses 60-67 are...
Thanks Roger. You say the Caledonian was "absorbed" into the LMS. As you may know, the 1921 Act separated the pre-1923 companies subject to the...
Seems a bit of a Hail Mary, hoping for some deus ex-machina to sort things out. The contribution to the local economy/community is alluded to in...
Thanks. I am a bit surprised that 5699 has not had the mods (which involved a new blastpipe top and mods to the chimney). The potential for carbon...
The Locomotive Engineers' Pocket Book (copies are available secondhand) gives advice on various design parameters. If you need a loco to do a...
BR made some effort to improve the Jubilees' steaming in 1956, comparing an improved single chimney and a double chimney and blastpipe mods in...
Is this assertion based on preliminary 2024 results of the Bluebell? The PLC made a loss in 2023 (the last filed accounts) of over £300k (although...
If you read the paper to the ILocoE, there seems to have been considerable scepticism about the validity of some of the testing, missing data and...
The Locomotive, as an industry journal reliant on industry adverts, was inclined to be enthusiastic/uncritical in its descriptions. As to why a...
So am I. The P2 material leaves more questions than answers. A mystery which no-one seems to explain is how the cams worked. I think in Caprotti...
I think the Franklin poppet valve gear on the K4S 5399, the first loco to be fitted, was the so-called "Type A" i.e. oscillating rather than...
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