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  1. class8mikado
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Indeed, cant see any thing else coming along without a Lottery winner/ wealthy backer ...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 28, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Locomotive Performance and Tractive Effort Discussion

    Locos dont refuel there anyway... Need to convert a Scarab dustcart/ electric milkfloat type thing into a tanker and run a collection service...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 27, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  4. class8mikado
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    Locomotive Performance and Tractive Effort Discussion

    Used fish & chip shop frying oil perhaps as theres plenty of that going on in Whitby...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 27, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Locomotive Performance and Tractive Effort Discussion

    Fairly sure it was pretty heavy stuff back then ... nowadays i think something like diesel or even recycled cooking oil perhaps ?
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 26, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  6. class8mikado
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    Great Britain XV: 15 - 23/4/23

    ...and all 4-6 -0's ... and( apart from a brief appearance by a Royal Scot ) all class 6 or under.
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 25, 2023 in forum: What's Going On
  7. class8mikado
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    Locomotive Performance and Tractive Effort Discussion

    Precisely the reason that this subject came to mind...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  8. class8mikado
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    Locomotive Performance and Tractive Effort Discussion

    Thats the difference - depends how much oil you are putting in... quite possible ( and possibly problematic) for the loco to be working very hard...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Locomotive Performance and Tractive Effort Discussion

    Suppose one difference is that a bed of coal burns faster / hotter when more air is being drawn through it with a slight lag between increased...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Locomotive Performance and Tractive Effort Discussion

    Q. Oil Firing For a Coal fired loco getting the draughting reasonably correct to give a suitable draw of air over / through the firebed is a key...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    On arrival in the U.K., and following inspection by British Engineering Services, there has been a concern around the quality and installation of...
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  12. class8mikado
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    Great Britain XV: 15 - 23/4/23

    SM ?
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 19, 2023 in forum: What's Going On
  13. class8mikado
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    Another Gresley Thread, middle big end

    Sorry I am getting befuddled; could be in the . Bill Harvey's 60 years in steam. book but may well have been in Dick Hardys Steam in the Blood......
    Post by: class8mikado, Apr 14, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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