Yes, the new No 4 boilers built for them were used to ugrade Aberdares instead.
Didn't the 5600s have extra frame stiffeners added to the original dsign which get in the way of just about everything?
Other allegations made against the Great Bear are that it was prone to slipping, which even though Pacifics may transfer some weight to the...
Since the renumbering of locomotives allocated to the R&SB was, apparently, solely because only that company's locos and not those of the GWR had...
Are these to be visually of a similar style to the original 4 wheelers they are replacing or just more bogie coaches?
Fascinating presentation.
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James Kennedy who later went into partnership with Edward Bury worked for Stephenson, who later complained that if it hadn't been for the...
Ah, the duplicitous Captain Huish. While he received aglowing obituary from the Institution of Civil Engineers praising his moral and benevolent...
A Dean single alongside Lady of Legend at Didcot would indeed be marvelous. For use on a heritage line a replica 3206 Barnum (second picture from...
The 28xx cylinders don't fit the No 7 boiler. A bodge was proposed as was building it like the prototype 4700 in its original form with a No 1...
Not used in Britain but built by the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co. for transporting prisoners to Siberia in Imperial Russia. The...
If the patent for Walschaert Valve Gear hadn't expired would both Deeley's and Churchwatd's have infringed it?
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If considering unconventional locos then of course there were Churchwatd's own railmotors. British builders had also been using Walschaerts gear...
A number of the multi cylinder classes on other railways admirerd for the accessibility of the outside Walschaerts valve gear had another set...
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that Collett positively discouraged his staff from visiting the works of other railways.
It seems that while Hawksworth hadn't had a post outside the drawing office Collett had a reputation for never visiting the drawing office. Am I...
That is quite a typical amalgamation Act for that period but in most other cases the locomotives were indeed quickly integrated into the stock of...
At the time of the abolition of the broad gauge thre was a proposal to concentrate locomotive building at Wolverhampton with Swindon concentrating...
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