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...
There is a similar situation between the Horwich and Stanier Crabs. The operators wanted more 2-6-0s so Stanier modified George Hughes' design to...
Could be. Could very well be!
No-one starts with an entirely blank paper. You start with Stephenson's 'Rocket' (or more likely 'Northumbrian') plus the modifications various...
This is a really interesting discussion and and draws attention to the terms 'inspired by' as opposed to 'derived from'. The 8F / WD scenario was...
I'd suggest that 6223 is at Crewe North shed rather than the Works. I don't know when it began but all the Pacifics were eventually sent to Crewe...
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