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The Pennine Moors Christmas Cracker 18/12/21.

Discussion in 'What's Going On' started by sgthompson, Nov 29, 2021.

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  1. Sheff

    Sheff Resident of Nat Pres

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    I’m still wondering what befell her too.


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    Well a continuous stream of water running out of an injector drain when there is no obvious reason why water should be going anywhere does suggest - at a guess - that an injector feed water valve has failed but that is quite unusual. That said, if there is no means to maintain the right level of water in the boiler it's little wonder that the fire had to go or you would also lose a plug or two.
     
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    I’d only see a still pic, so wasn’t aware of duration of said issue.


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    I think in this instance the feed from the tender has been inadvertantly left on so not an injector failure

    Whilst I appreciate we are interested to know what caused the failure , until there is word from the owners we may need to be patient and not engage in too much speculation
     
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    Leaving the feed from the tender on 'inadvertently' is a strange thing to do, is it not unless for some reason you want to keep the injector cool? But anyway, a sad incident.
     
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    Anyone who’s ever operated a steam engine will have done that at some point, nothing strange about it at all it’s easily done. I had to tell someone firing to shut the water valve twice the other day as they’d forgotten.

    Not for one moment suggesting that’s what’s happened with 6100.
     
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