To my knowledge Poppet valves on steam engines are held shut by the steam chest pressure and only need an action to open them...
Colours are spot on !
Thanks Fred , the decrease i understand and the fall off in mileage corresponds, but how do explain the increase... is it because scheduled...
seems to demand some insight as to why availability increased and then decreased post 1943...
Surely new and refurbished are not the same thing
Going so well that i am inclined to the Trivial, happened upon a model in LBSCR ' Umber' and thought 'wow'.:Drool: is there scope for beachy to...
Did that ever get as far as a general arrangement or even a proposal ?
Given all industry seems to have capacity issues one imagines work on them has stopped in favour of the original Tornado boiler overhaul, post...
With fake jets, a nose cone and a bit of yellow paint an 03 would look a bit more like thunderbird 4
Think this was inspired by an off the cuff musing by Riddles himself, interviewed on the occasion of a visit to Loughborough to see the Duke...
Cant remember where i got this, but its Powells Heavy fleshed out, the guessed driver spacing is no longer accurate for a 17ft between...
Sorry what is RIS-4472-RST, 3 Cylinder 2-8-2 , 48ft grate, 5ft 8 drivers.... ha who needs a P2
Ditto.
Indeed it is fortuitous that for the test runs on 60163 on the GCR, 70013 - a bona-fide 'grandfather' was used as a comparison and so a set of...
The End of BR steam was a few Black 5's and a Brit. ?
Thats the rub, one hopes that by being able to demonstrate that a substitute component behaves in an altogether similar or even preferable way...
Not much call for these locos on the big railway, the standard 4 Tender locos tend to get the whitby turns at NYMR...
May have to be corrected by Std tank but Class 3 is a design that evolved from Ivatt 2 and no doubt borrowed heavily existing designs of...
i always wondered about the sleeves on those overalls...
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