Unfortunately, looking great was the limit of their abilities.
That was the general opinion in BR days too.
It's already had a go at racing 13268 at Ramsbottom! It didn't win, but I'll give ten out of ten for effort! [img]
So why have you decided to prolong this one? This discussion been done to death, there's nothing left to be said. Everyone just give it a rest and...
Smokeboxes do get hot but back in the day were painted gloss. It was quite common to have to repaint the smokebox as the paint burned away and...
Peter Groom wrote an article about wartime 8Fs for the 8F Society's magazine and spread into WD 2-8-0s and 2-10-0s. Apparently, these last went...
It's the speed which does it, and the 'dynamic augment' rises with the square of velocity. In English, it's four times worse at 50 m.p.h. than it...
It would have been interesting to have been a fly on the wall of the Running Foreman's office when the driver arrived to discuss the diagramming...
That's because they were introduced 27 and 20 years before the first Stanier engine emerged from Crewe Works. It wasn't a case that the Stanier...
The LMS policy is worth a look and shows that early withdrawal wasn't confined to the 1960s. I am grateful to Arthur Cook's LMS Locomotive Design...
There is little point looking for valid reasons for the withdrawal of steam engines in the 1960s. Basically, each region, district, and individual...
I'm not sure I followed most of that. The 8Fs were probably cheaper to run than Super Ds, which were good traffic movers but terrible for crews to...
Perhaps the LMS inherited wisdom from the Highland Railway and F.O. Smith's 'River' Class 4-6-0s!
Don't put too much credence on the axle weights shown in the weight diagrams, and certainly not LMS ones. For the 8Fs they were always given as 8T...
A problem with WDs as far as crews were concerned was the fore and aft surging as speed rose, increasing from 25 m.p.h. on to the point where...
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