Ooof! That's a lot of grunt! Yes, Sheff, reducing the cylinder diameter might make sense (if only to reduce steam consumption) - I wonder if the...
It has just occurred to me that if the A1SLT use the Diagram 118A boiler on the P2 that will push the boiler pressure up from 220lbs to 250lbs, I...
All this Thmpson/Gresley/Peppercorn debate has moved a long way from the P2 - I just wonder if anyone's asked Dorothy Mather about Thompson......
By God! You're not the only one aiming for Barrow Hill! I think a lot of people are going to bust a gut to get there, not just those of us who...
Unlike the Peppercorn A1's, the P2's drove to a common axle so a different crank arrangement will be needed. With regard to no. 60113's ride, it...
Well, I just banged my donation in, the "Big Give" is up to £15,000 (the doubled total) - I hadn't clocked that with gift aid they'd add 125% to...
Alas the "Big Give" site appears to have crashed this morning, back up again at 10.00am tomorrow (Tuesday) so don't forget to try then! Foxy
The theory was that they had been used on a contractors railway, possibly associated with the Elan Reservoir project and then dumped at Borth. I...
Well, at least that way Virgin Railways would acquire some decent motive power.... Foxy
As noted in the other thread, after NR inflicted an hour's delay at Craven Arms, the total deficit of 70 minutes was halved by the time the train...
I can remember working on a huge landfill site in Brum when I was training as a landscape architect... everything suddenly came to a grinding halt...
Thanks to Network Rail locking the train into the loop at Craven Arms an hour was lost while a man in a van came to clip the points and free the...
I'll be watching this one with interest. Foxy
Good question. I've never seen a weight diagram of 60163 published but someone (Delta Rail?) must have the data. 7cwt for a canon box and the...
That is SUCH good news! Let's hope its recovery will be swift! Foxy
..... Those are the all up weights but what about the individual axle loadings? The *unsprung* weight was much more on the bogie wheels and...
There was a long held suspicion that the roller-bearing fitted A1's were overweight. I believe that weight savings with a welded boiler brought...
OK, suppose Didcot won't send out its mogul, I'd forgotten about the WD 2-10-0's and the 2-8-0 on the Worth Valley, and the USA S160's, several...
Fantastic! Lovely to see the two railways working happily together. Looking forward to seeing Gertrude at Warley! Foxy
Well, you could have the Dean Goods, the 04, The Cavell van, 5322 from Didcot, a couple of USA tanks, a 2' gauge Baldwin, an armoured Simplex........
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