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That's my blood pressure c ocked up for the day. I'll take 2,............gift wrapped.

 

Or travelling on RTC excursions?

 

Take care, remember the Sky pundits!

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*pedant mode engaged* Do Polish serving wenches count as BSWs?

 

Who cares? they'll do in an emergency. :madgrin: :nod:

 

A typical comment from an afficionado of a company that added far too much air-conditioning to their footplates, cornered the global market in Brasso and tried to hide the fact that a certain Mr. F. Hawksworth had the inspired belief that 'if a 280psi boiler is good enough for Bulleid, then its good enough for the GWR' ! I laughed so much when I read this that my 'air-smoothed' casing almost fell off...

 

Bullied? Grrrrr.

 

Ahh, but its not streamlining, as it has a flat front, so er-go its casing ! I suppose that could make me either a rebuilt, or an unrebuilt under overhaul at Eastleigh. I prefer the latter!

 

I suppose my user name would be 'Bullied' Pacific (error retained advisedly, Spamcan!) if the GWR chaps had their way...

 

There speaks a man who obviously hasn't suffered from the unpleasantly hot environment of a Bulleid cab in the summer months !

 

[pedant mode on]

They're not unrebuilt, they're original! How do you unrebuild something? ;-)

[pedant mode off]

 

Spoken by a man who has obviously never been in the cab of a Manor going tender first in the winter.

 

Fine though all this witty banter is, does anyone have any information they can share about Tangmere's return to duty? I would expect a mainline test run sometime between now and 12th Feb. Has anything popped up in the local notices or time-table supliments yet? There was a rumour it would be this week, but that rumour clearly had no basis in fact.

IIRC, the "air-smoothed casing" was designed to allow the locos to use the same "car wash" as EMUs and coaching stock. I've never actually seen a Spamcan being cleaned this way, though I did video Tangmere passing through the carriage washer at Littlehampton station a few years ago, to get to the coal lorry!

 

Well at least it means (phew!!) that the thread is now discussing Tangmere and serving wenches and not other side issues

 

Wrong, I have ! No real problem, although I reckon a Dean Goods tender first might be a bit more of a challenge (I never did that !). But generally it is lot easier to keep warm in winter on a GWR engine than cool in summer on a Bullleid pacific - and I'm told that Gresley pacifics can be uncomfortable at times too.