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    Tulyar

    For Victor. [MEDIA]
    Post by: Eightpot, Jan 4, 2025 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
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    Tornado

    https://www.a1steam.com/tornado/news/tornado-details/october-etcs-update Is the 22V referred to in the 3rd paragraph a typo which should be 24V?
    Post by: Eightpot, Dec 3, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    It's gone very quiet about this loco.......
    Post by: Eightpot, Dec 2, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    CAMDEN RUNNING DAY 17-11-24

    I can recall Potters Bar garage receiving its first batch of RTs to replace the LT six-wheelers with open staircase. What still lingers on is the...
    Post by: Eightpot, Nov 28, 2024 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Flying Scotsman

    If the tenderer thinks it can be done cheaper, then if they are so clever, let them have a go at doing the job.
    Post by: Eightpot, Oct 26, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    6024 King Edward 1

    Didn't a similar thing happen with ex LNER B1 61306 when it was at Carnforth many, many, years ago?
    Post by: Eightpot, Oct 18, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    Eh.....?
    Post by: Eightpot, Oct 15, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    I'm glad that I put my money into a different project, vis, 32424 "Beachy Head", (rather than "Tornado"), which from all accounts appears to be...
    Post by: Eightpot, Oct 6, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Gresley Society’s GNR N2 1744

    Hatfield shed (34C) had both N2s and N7s. The N2s pretty well exclusively used south of there for the Kings + inner suburban services and for few...
    Post by: Eightpot, Sep 25, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    New Build Night Owl - 4709 Begins

    Correct.
    Post by: Eightpot, Sep 7, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    New Build Night Owl - 4709 Begins

    May God bless all who sail in you.
    Post by: Eightpot, Sep 7, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    My photo of the original 'Beachy Head' (the only Brighton Atlantic I ever saw) taken at Norwood Junction shed with a cheap Kodak plastic camera...
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 31, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    As the injector was invented by a Frenchman, as far as I am aware the delivery cone size (which governs the feed water capacity or rate) the...
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    I presume that 11X refers to the delivery cone being 11 mm I diameter.
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    According to Richard Metcalfe's book the GWR had a licence to make Davies & Metcalfe live steam injectors dating back to the 1920s at least. Can't...
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    I am thinking of the incident in the RAIB Rail Accident Report 13/2014 of the Locomotive failure near Winchfield on 23 November 2013. This...
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    I note that just after 20 minutes in that 34059 has still got one of those 'dodgy' cross-head pins with the nut securing split pin horizontal...
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 29, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    Thanks, I knew that I'd seen it somewhere.
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 29, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    I recall reading somewhere that when the 9Fs were allocated to 35A New England (Peterborough) that the firemen on them couldn't get used to the...
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 29, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    Its flabbers being ghasted in these parts.
    Post by: Eightpot, Aug 28, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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