35028, "Clan Line"

Nice shot Don thanks, and no worries about being in my video, when I go to a station someone always is, it's unavoidable. It's not like I'm making TV programmes!

And in turn, I was in 73096std5's video too.

[video=youtube;hrwM840hNfU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrwM840hNfU[/video]


You would have been as well except I was blocking his view of you :wave:

 

Care to expand on that a bit please? It was all very mysterious at the time - repeated injector failures with no apparent cause IIRC?

 

Yes quite. Do they shoot you if you divulge what the magazine actually ​said?

 

Another case of beating about the bush, if people aren't prepared to expand fully, then don't bother at all. Too much winding up on here. It's only steam locos, not a national secret endangering the country.

 

No cloak and dagger stuff here, basically the injector body was worn out. A small amount of steam was leaking past the sealing faces and thus the injector was becoming hot with use so would not pick up. This is why the injectors worked during FTR but troublesome out on the runs. A temporary repair was made that got the loco to (nearly) Crewe before becoming faulty again. A new injector body has been cast and machined. Reading the society mag. there was a huge amount of co-operation between locomotive owning groups, volunteers, heritage railways and commercial engineering companies. It is this co-operation that should be applauded and we should not making up reasons to criticise the MNLPS for not disclosing info.

 

I wasn't. I was criticising post no 282 for the lack of actual information

 

Excellent news, and something that the owners of the four MNs going into restoration/overhaul can consider for future reference. Sorry to hear about the financial side, but at least the MNLPS can look forward to a future of relatively peaceful operation (hopefully with fingers crossed and touching everything made of wood!).

 

Injectors DO like boiling water. They combine boiling water [under pressure from the boiler] with cold feed water [from the tender/side tanks/etc.] to top-up boiler water levels as necessary.
The points you raised [" ... caused 28 to overcook and prime badly."] would not, of themselves, cause the feed water in the tender to become "boiling" and stop injectors from working.
As has been written before - the primary cause was found to be faulty [worn] injector(s).

 

What type of injectors are you talking about? As far as I am aware, injectors use water from a tender or tanks and live steam or exhaust steam. At no time does the use of boiling water come into the equation.

 

For those interested, the issue of the society magazine (referred to earlier in the thread) containing the report into the injector failure has been added to the society's website. Just go to the homepage and scroll down (PDF file). Home

 

For anyone who is interested, next Saturday's VSOE luncheon special is taking a different route to the usual Surrey Hills according to UK Steam Info. A chance to see Clan Line (running as 35017) running via Maidstone east and Deal. t1203a.htm

 

Sorry everyone - route has reverted back to Surrey Hills. (can't seem to copy the link for some reason). Most intriguing as to why the route was changed and then changed back.

 

If you refer to the What's going on thread more details are given there.

Mike M. (70c )