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    Sandringham New Build(s)

    Divided drive on a B17/Sandringham, unified on a D49 and other Gresley 3-cylinder types. Axles cranked in order to give clearance to connecting...
    Post by: 242A1, Jul 24, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    Post by: 242A1, Nov 1, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The Nord 4-6-0 SNCF 240D (we used to have one, it was located at the Nene Valley Railway) was a Du Bousquet engine and certainly not a Chapelon,...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 31, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The original Pacifics were costed at a few hundred pounds each at the time. They were complicated largely due to French drawing office practice....
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 31, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The French started experimenting with railway electrification in the early years of the twentieth century. At First came the phase of addressing...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 31, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    You need to add the 90 GELSA locomotives built for Brazil. So I think that there were 548 but I could be wrong. He produced a range of designs of...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 31, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The 141P class numbered 318 engines and were produced by seven builders. The 4-240A and 5-240P numbered 37 engines in total. So far as Pacifics...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 31, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    A simple posting along the lines of "I passed this on in good faith from etc. etc. -----" might be in order. This, shall we call it malicious...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 30, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    I suspect that we will never see any accountability on the part of those making what were fictitious allegations w.r.t. this matter.
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 30, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    Gresley and Chapelon were very different people. Gresley was born in 1876, attended Marlborough College, served an apprenticeship at Crewe and...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 27, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    However Chapelon was a bit of an outlier - his relationship with some of the railway hierarchy wasn't exactly smooth. Prove people wrong and they...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 25, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    It is difficult enough to obtain car parts in this allegedly post covid world. And the quality of what you do manage to source is open to...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    Inadequate exhaust systems remain a problem on locomotives and people still point the finger at the boiler as being the problem. SSC figures can...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    The two J15s which went to Neasden to be sub-shedded at Aylesbury were transferred in 1957 from Bury St. Edmunds and as the Y14/J15 first appeared...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 19, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    Considering all that has gone on since the Autumn of 2019 and the difficulties created during that period Trust has done pretty well in spite of...
    Post by: 242A1, Oct 18, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction