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Nene Valley Railway

Discussion in 'Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK' started by Luke McMahon, Apr 19, 2016.

  1. Jamessquared

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    1 kg / cm^2 is approximately 14.25psi. So the first red line is at about 150psi; the second line is at 170psi; the yellow line is at 213psi or thereabouts.

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    Well, I am yet to have a trip behind 5485 but 656 is a must :). I shall of course boycott the Pacer in favour of Helga and Hagar.

    I'm not sure if I have any issues of Nene Steam that show 656 when she was last running?
     
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    Cheers Tom. I generally 'do' lbs/in sq for steam boilers, but as I don't tend to get off the planet too often, 'bar' for pretty much all else.
     
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    Pretty much, 1 bar = 1 kg / cm2 (not quite, but pretty close).

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    On it's own, at sea level, with a warm following wind! ;)
     
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    The norm in the UK is to only have one red line. It might lead to some confusion but, I guess if the second one is the swp any confusion would be erring on the safe side
    656’s smaller cousin (385) has only the one red line at a swp of 10 men.
     
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    It may be that the extra two lines on the gauge were added sometime after 656 was built, perhaps after it finished service with the Danish State Railways (DSB).

    I also suspect that the gauge on 656 was a replacement, back in its DSB days. The photo shows the original (discarded) gauge from sister loco 657 at Danish heritage railway SFvJ. Different dial, and only one line.
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    Apologies for drifting from national preservation. My excuse is that DSB's class F was developed from tender engines supplied to Denmark by R & W Hawthorn in 1873. :Happy:
     
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    NVR Wagon Group are running one of their popular Freight Driving Experience days next Friday, 14th October, hauled by Class 45 'Peak' Diesel 45041

    £165 a person for a half day with refreshments on arrival followed by two round trips hauling the demonstration freight rake, with a chance to drive for part of each round trip.

    Afternoon nearly sold out (one place left at time of writing), but places still on the morning session.

    https://nvr.org.uk/product.php/354/diesel-freight-driver-experience-2022/

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    Good to see an LNWR engine on a LNWR line! I shall try and get there.
     
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    A pity it's leaving but it has been languishing in the shed for years - better that it is repatriated and finally returned to steam. Then something else can have shelter.

    Certainly some interesting machinery in that shed.
     
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    The answer to that is "yes": https://www.svrwiki.com/DRG_64_305

    However, whilst trying to look that up on UKPRSL I saw the following notice regarding that site: I'm sure that there's a better place for it than here though.

     
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    Hopefully it's sale will release some funds to progress other projects, and as you say, it's been sat for a long time with little prospect of returning to steam here, so fingers crossed it has a better future in Germany.

    It would be lovely to see the NVR build a more resilient home fleet of operational steam.

    Is there currently only the big Romanian tank and Tinkerbell operable- I'm sure I read 34081 was requiring repairs?

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    It’s a Polish tank. :)
    The Dane isn’t quite ready for traffic.
    34081 has a niggling problem with the thermic syphons. Repairs have been initiated.
     
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    I'm sure it will. I'd like to see any funds go towards expediting 73050's return or better still, that of the Gate Guardian :)

    Mind you, there are also other things needed by the NVR that aren't haulage related that could be useful: lighting in the workshop for one.
     
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    What is the gate guardian there these days?
     
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    Think it's the B.

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