Clan Line special duty tour.

Piece of cake, thats less weight than that the champagne and food on the VSOE.

 

Very good, very good indeed.

 

Are we not following standard Bulleid practice here then ? I've yet to see a shot that shows 47760 shoving from the back.

 

Times for todays return now at RTT ...09.18 departure Tinsley....

 

Right. That's it.

You can push a Yeti so far, then something snaps.

All Brass and Copper polishing clothes removed for a month.

Thats told him!

 

No it hasn't.

 

Clearly not lol!

 

Happens to us all at some point!

Surprisingly, they appear to be the only ones from Tinsley on Y T!

 

One of those videos shows steam coming from the back end of the tender. The puffs suggest an air pump, but they seem to be superimposed on a small continuous flow of steam. Does anyone know exactly what's happening there?

 

Often looks like that on the VSOE runs, not been a problem to date.

 

It's so easy for Clan Line to take 450 tons up a 1/90 grade that the puffs were the fireman sitting on a deck chair low down in the tender and having a fag.

 

I never understand the glee that is expressed when people suggest that the Merchant Navy's are more advanced than the Kings, Bulleid would have been a pretty poor engineer if he had designed a loco that wasn't more advanced and possibly better 14 years after the King.

They were apparently so good that it was decided to rebuild them not many years after they were built? I have no idea why that was undertaken but in light of the money saving that railways were always seeking to achieve I assume it wasn't done for the sake of it!

Coincidentally I really like Bulleid's loco's, just gets under my skin occassionally some of the peculiar anti GWR stuff that comes out on here, especially over 60 years after nationalisation.

 

Just as I never understand the glee with which some people point out that if it wasn't built at Swindon it was a piece of junk. As for the rebuild programme, that's been argued to death upmteen times but to say "They were apparently so good that it was decided to rebuild them not many years after they were built" is no different to those who jibe at the Kings. At the end of the day they were all steam locos and we're lucky to have so many different types to choose from when it comes to nominating a favourite.

 

Until now this thread has mainly been a wonderful mix of various regions enthusiasts indulging in a very pleasant and friendly exchange of good old fashioned banter.

 

Clan Line was the first mainline loco to have air-brakes fitted in the preservation era (c. 1993?). The MNLPS engineers decided to fit the air pump in a new recess cut into the rear of the tender, close to the compressed-air reservoirs, a long way from the muck and oil found around the other likely locations (near the smokebox, under the cab floor, etc.) and out of sight. So far, no other loco has followed this pattern, though I'm not aware of any significant problem with Clan Line's installation.

Not to be confused with puffs of steam from the tenders of 71000 Duke Of Gloucester and (I think) 6233 Duchess of Sutherland, which have steam-operated coal-pushers in their bunkers.

 

Trust a Western fan to ruin it!

*Hides*

 

Ratty pants now removed....

I wouldn't say that everything that isn't Swindon built is junk, they built some good stuff at Wolverhampton and Crewe did OK once they got a proper trained CME in.....

Seriously though I think we are agreeing in essence, I never understand the tribal nature of the movement, if there's a steam movement through Lancaster I will try and get out to see it. Whatever it is as to see steam doing what it's designed for into the 21st century is something we should all be grateful for... may even get to see one of those temperamental Bullied things in motion one day!

Therefore - Apologies if I offended you sensitive Southern types...

 

Quite understandable, excessive Brasso fumes are well known to cause a trance like condition called "Copper Goggles" where all things Western seem the greatest.

*also off to hide*

 

Get. Out.

 

I'm an LNER man really but as you say, a steam working on one's patch is worth going out to see no matter what the loco.