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  1. LMS2968
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    Boiler safety issues

    Looks well hauling the Coronation Scot bunker first!
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 16, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    You have to set the gear to suit the direction of travel, The was someone - actually, a crowd - on the footplate.
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 16, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    The nearest I got to this was on the Severn Valley, and the 2-10-0 'Gordon' was being steamed for the first time since it arrived. The fire was...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 16, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    Yep! Unsure of the spelling, I started with Bowden and put it into Google - and it gave a result. Perhaps I should have read further: Bowden...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 16, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
  6. LMS2968
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    Boiler safety issues

    They were Bowden gauges, same as now.
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 14, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    While that is all true, Tom, the question is, how often do you need to change a pressure gauge?
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 14, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    Indeed it was.
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 14, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    Yes. Crewe had a backlog following WWI and sent some engines to outside contractors for overhaul . 'B' Class 0-8-0 Compound No. 134 went to...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 14, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    Buxton, 11 November 1921.
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 13, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
  11. LMS2968
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    Boiler safety issues

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boiler_explosion_1850.jpg
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 13, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boiler safety issues

    [MEDIA]
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 13, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    BR Standard class 6 No. 72010 'Hengist' and Clan Discussion Thread

    The trailing frames extensions are of shallower section to allow the ashpan to fit above them. To retain structural strength they have to be made...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 11, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    Nope, definitely Harold Gasson. As I said, I'd read his books so knew the name, and his previous GWR sentiments. For any GWR man to admit that...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 9, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    Cox tends to be a bit on the unreliable side. From BR Report R13, July 1958 from the tests of 6225, as quoted by John Powell in 'Stanier...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    But they could also make that steam. They had the highest steam rate of any engine in Britain, so high it couldn't be measured as the boiler...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    Actual (measured) Tractive Effort, stating also the speed at which it was delivered. T.E. declines exponentially with speed, which is why Nominal...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    It just seemed a strange thing to write. I'm sure you know that Nominal T.E. has little practical application; the nearest it gets to being of any...
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    We're not back to the Nominal Tractive Effort equals power output fallacy again, are we?
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    It was a magazine article he did for, if memory serves, Steam World. It wasn't a magazine I usually bought, then or now, but I did buy that copy....
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    I don't know, but GWR fireman and later signalman, Harold Gasson, said the 8Fs were the best engines to come out of Swindon works!
    Post by: LMS2968, Jun 8, 2021 in forum: Steam Traction
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