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  1. clinker antwortete auf das Thema Oil Firing.

    Stratford wasn't running exclusively on oil fired locomotives, so coal storage/distribution infrastructure wasn't a problem.

    2 August 2026 um 12:38

  2. clinker gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Oil Firing.

    The SECR system (which Holcroftvsaid was based on the Derby system) had the same, the reason given by Holcroft being to maintain a more even temperature in the back corners of the box when the oil supply was shut off. Tom

    2 August 2026 um 09:19

  3. clinker gefällt Spamcan81s Beitrag in dem Thema Oil Firing.

    Or possibly not. The GER had oil fired T19 locos around 1900.

    2 August 2026 um 09:18

  4. clinker antwortete auf das Thema Oil Firing.

    From what I've read Stratford were, once again, streets ahead of the others, having a 'small' coal fired grate which was lit with the 'rag on a stick' and kept burning, thus being a form of pilot light.

    1 August 2026 um 11:55
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