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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    You've half said it. As you couldn't use Gresley gear, a third set of full valve gear is needed, which is a full set of valve gear more than a...
    Post by: clinker, Sep 26, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    just a guess, but I'd reckon that using a 90/180 degree layout, which isn't the best, but most common arrangement four cylinders the design can...
    Post by: clinker, Sep 25, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Fort Paull Disposal Auction

    Roughly forty years ago the aircraft museum at Southend sold up, there was a Beverley in the sale that was eventually broken up, I believe that...
    Post by: clinker, Sep 21, 2020 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Liveries!

    I've read 'Somewhere' about Drivers (possibly inexperienced) being 'Pranked' by greasing the rails under the H.P. wheels, thus causing wheelspin,...
    Post by: clinker, Aug 11, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Meet the Steampunk Model Railway Enthusiast

    I wonder, would Roland Emmett qualify as a pioneer of Steampunk?
    Post by: clinker, Aug 7, 2020 in forum: Model Railways
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    NRM J17 at Bressingham

    Depending on how things pan out in the future, 'New' GE locomotives COULD be built. If we look at the projects 'in the offing', Despite the rather...
    Post by: clinker, Aug 7, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    AEC

    My old Dad said something like that about a Standard Sentinel Steam Waggon, before the end of that particular rally season it appeared with a...
    Post by: clinker, Aug 4, 2020 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Boilers & Accidents

    There's a similar story in 'Stratford, A Loco Man Remembers' where the inspector Walter lee looped a rope around the water glass, So the fireman...
    Post by: clinker, Aug 1, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    NRM J17 at Bressingham

    This is a hard one to know either one way or the other, I am under the impression that the J17 was saved because it was (possibly) the last with a...
    Post by: clinker, Aug 1, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boilers & Accidents

    Some time back I restored a Traction engine that had unpacked taper plug cocks on the water glass, they were murder to try and keep working and...
    Post by: clinker, Jul 25, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Finnish TK3 1151 at Southend on Sea

    I remember this rather silly comment from many years ago, BUT I can assure You that the 'Offset tyres' comment did not come from the same man, It...
    Post by: clinker, Jul 24, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boilers & Accidents

    Thanks for those, Mr Moore was very 'Matter of Fact' in his reporting and does make the same point that I have regarding the 'Visibility' of plug...
    Post by: clinker, Jul 24, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Finnish TK3 1151 at Southend on Sea

    I don't know how 'Accurate' it was, but I was told that it would be possible to re-gauge the Finnish locomotives to standard gauge by 'Simply'...
    Post by: clinker, Jul 24, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boilers & Accidents

    Thanks for this lot, particularly the fusible plug matter, I was under the impression that they had none. However, I'm still playing 'Spot the...
    Post by: clinker, Jul 24, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boilers & Accidents

    I think that the S160's had a 'remote' water column, which was connected to the boiler via copper tubes, the 'Steam' tube being curved, thus...
    Post by: clinker, Jul 22, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction