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BR Standard class - practice and performance

Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by sir gilbert claughton, Jul 21, 2018.

  1. LesterBrown

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    They were repainted by the GWR (perhaps at Machynlleth) but in what appeared to be carriage brown.
     
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    Not sure. The SG goods yard at Mach stayed open of course (BR lorries handled remaining goods in the Dulas Valley after NG services succumbed) and from photographic evidence, several of the remaining staff were getting quite long in the tooth by closure in 1948. A few rail operations by the slate companies north of Aberllefenni continued, using a tractor straddling running lines, until the early 1970's. The Corris mainline was lifted within a couple of years of closure. The bridge rail of the Upper Corris branch (moribund since the only significant customer, Braichgoch quarry, began using it's own lorries following an increase in GW carriage rates in 1927) vanished in a scrap drive during WWII.
     
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    I can't suggest what a 2' gauge one would look like, but there is a proposal for a loco on line that gives a good idea what a 15" gauge Standard would look like:

    http://www.steam-loco-design.co.uk/zb_article_6.html

    John
     
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    class8mikado Part of the furniture

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    2-6-2 or 2-8-2 would be more in keeping with a standard. But if it's turntabled at both ends of the line...
     
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    The page linked to above says "the absence of trailing non-coupled wheels avoids the transfer of weight from the driving wheels that occurs when pulling hard thus ensuring that the locomotive is less likely to slip." That makes sense only when the loco runs chimney first, so presumably that is the intention.
     
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