Rather than manufacturing data ( your three points ) why not plot existing data eg ex Rugby records within the NRM, Swindon, BTC Bulletins, 1948...
V2 Boiler pressure. 220 psi Heating area 2431 sq.ft Superheater 680 sq. ft Grate 41.25 sq.ft Cylinders 3 off 18.5” x 26” A1 Boilerpressure 250psi...
I think the fastest existing steam recording Darlington York ( as per the RPS archive ) was made on the 24/6/1958 on the 17.05 Newcastle KX. Loco...
Far be it for me as a life long Southern enthusiat who now spends much of his time on a former GWR branch line to intrude on a LMS/LNER spat but…....
I suspect, but do not know, that the Double chimney on the Jubilee was merely fitted as a direct replacement. I would be happy to be proven wrong...
I thought I had been involved in a discussion wrt the Jubilee double chimney. Please see attached.[ATTACH] Michael Rowe
Tom, three of the examples I quoted were from Messrs Nock, Nelson and Weight who were on the footplate. In the case of Nock and Nelson their...
Perhaps there is no reference to the Jubilee with double chimney because there was only one, fitted very late on during BR and there is no...
Your post has encouraged me to read AJP’s comments ( he travelled on the Thames Forth, apparently losing10 minutes from Edinburgh to Carlisle...
On occasion IMHO perhaps he expresses absolute certainty where others might be more circumspect ! Michael Rowe
I have only just caught up with this discussion. I am slightly confused as to whether the discussion driver is livery or performance, Some...
Thanks. Your post has spurred me on to delve a little. Nock’s first publication of the 46251 log was in the June 1961 Railway Magazine. p.422 He...
Thanks, it is some years since I read the Gooch diaries. I suppose we should give credit to Harrison for endeavouring in the “Hurricane” an#...
Tom, in defence of Brunel ( although he is IMHO praised more than enough ) “Hurricane” and “Thunderer” were built by Hawthorns under a stipulation...
OSNock has given details in three of his books of a log behind 46251 with 13/444/465 tons between Glasgow and Carlisle on the ‘Mid Day Scot’ The...
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