The MNLPS website has a piece on how it was done for Clan Line. Basically, big old Westinghouse air brake valve in the cab (quite noticeable)...
The P2s and 35020 may have slipped your memory. Those were design faults really, but there are designs which are inherently poor and those for...
Should be noted that for the class 26 rebuild (The Red Devil) Wardale took the drifting valve off, the design intent being to coast in mid-gear....
Peter Townend wrote that one Scottish ex-LNER shedmaster referred to the drivers of a neighbouring ex-LMS depot as 'the hydraulic gang' due to...
That gives me an opportunity to link to this excellent piece by Bert Hooker, describing a run on an unfitted coal train with a Urie Arthur....
From memory (I'm away from my books at the moment), they were another aspect of the original Bulleids that had to be treated in a non-standard...
I do like that story (pedant alert: it was actually Ford UK making Merlins for the UK at that stage, I think - Packard did the Merlins for the...
Funnily enough, a lot of conventional 0-4-4T designs weren't necessarily very flexible - the bogie throw needed gets quite significant because of...
Since everyone else is taking this far too seriously, I'd just like to comment that I didn't understand your praise for the looks of the Johnson...
Thanks Don, it's good to hear this sort of thing from eyewitnesses. As I said in my original post, the general belief that MNs don't like being...
Well, in some ways the owner's viewpoint is understandable, after all when listing classes that don't steam the Bulleids would hardly be high on...
As I've commented before, I can only assume that it worked if properly maintained, because the SR considered it worthwhile replacing all of the...
More volume yes, but in eight beats of size closer to the WC/BB. The boiler is probably a closer match in size too.
FWIW, several of the MNs did over 100000 miles straight out of rebuilding, on generally shorter runs than ECML duties. 35008 for instance did...
While that's reasonably widely accepted, I've always found it slightly strange. I mean, there are no obvious reasons why an MN shouldn't like...
Seems to have been this one.
On a slightly less unconventional note than the 4-2-4T, the Brighton Baltics had 6'9" drivers, so larger even if not largest. Of course, they...
Of course!
Worth remembering that as far as I can tell any steam loco moved over the national network, regardless of being mainline certified in its own...
Really? I don't recall hearing of any such case of copying/borrowing, what did you have in mind?
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