Tornado

Everytime I look into Tornado I learn something of interest, the kind of bearings used on the tender being the latest example. Lets hope Mr Elliot's good news makes the copy deadline for the Beano...

 

Further update from the Trust: https://www.a1steam.com/2018/08/11/repair-update-10th-august/
Progress!

Cheers!
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There we go - the good news David Elliott alluded to earlier this week

 

And the next hare starts running!

 

Not me, I`m hibernate

 

But you've now missed Summer, ok you didn't miss much # steam ban
Now onto Tornado , All parts made have been to what ever modern spec material is a direct replacement to what was originally specified , and as such I would say is beyond anyone's control , if x spec isn't available, but the modern equivalent is, and on paper and under test performs to the same parameters then surely you would use it, what happened was unforeseen but now we are where we are, the question though is, had the drop link not failed like it did, how much worse would the damage had been? see some parts may be designed to fail in that way to prevent more severe damage to the rest of the motion ?

 

Do you mean the combination lever?

 

What do you see to that effect in this latest report? They had already mentioned finding something wrong (cracking?) in one of the bits of the outside valve gear, hence needing to replace that as well, but there is no connection between that and the seizing of the inside valve.

 

yes mental block , yes combination lever but when you look at any valve gear / motion, there are always parts that will in the extent of an major failure of the moving parts will deflect or fail before the engine tears its self to bits, not withstanding rods deciding to dig into the ballast and pole-vault the loco into the station canopy

 

Aren't you forgetting that heavy maintenance work was carried out on the loco between the 100 mph event and April?

 

If any organisation is going to give a full uncensored report, I would put A1ST at the head of the list.

They have nothing to hide, they will learn from it, and build back towards the goal of 90mph running, I am sure.

I can imagine its a complicated series of events that have transpired to cause the failure, and we should await the official report.

 

Be nice for the NVR if shes running-in 2nd/3rd September (Their pacifics event), nicer still if its the week before as im passing to drop in, but that's a bit hopeful...

 

It'd make up for the absence of 61306...

 

242 pages, so this may have been asked and answered before.
Why is it necessary to achieve 90 mph? Is 80 mph. not a reasonable speed?

 

Probably not worth the extra paperwork for just 5mph over the current max. Though you could argue if an extra 15mph is!

 

What a daft question, it was clearly just to show off! There is no substantive reason whatsoever to run the loco at 90, it’s all just for vanity points!

 

Makes it easier to find paths for her on the busy UK Mainline, particularly the ECML.

 

Pathing in an increasingly faster and busier railway.

Ah - post crossed with @D1002

The ECML is now so busy they had to upgrade the Lincoln line to Peterborough to get the freight off the ECML after years of the Lincoln line being just a six-day, sixteen hour railway.