Non - Stop BRISTOLIAN 17/4/2010!

It's got to be condensing tender!

 

Failing that we could always use this instead of 5043.

 

If y'all look on page 73 of this months Steam Railway, Mr Meanley Snr gives a massive hint about how they are going to do it.

Maybe if they can stop the Castle from apparently "furiously blowing off" they can save some water!

(Reference to a different thread!)

 

Mystery Solved!!!!!

 

Or maybe an experimental 8 wheel tender???

 

I think the reason the ticket prices are (allegedly) so high, is because they are going to provide each passenger with a couple of gallons of free beer. This will be consumed during the journey and then nature having done what nature does, disposed of. Meanwhile the Vintage trains carriage fleet is being adapted to provide extra filtered pipework from the toilet outflow to feed the loco tender.

OK so this is taking the proverbial (!), but just out of interest how much water does a carriage normally carry for flushing purposes?

 

Now you really are taking the p.............

 

Bells n Twotones on a Lowmac?

 

I think a Milk Tanker would need internal modification to run with a reducing load of liquid. My understanding is that, unlike locomotive tenders, Milk Tankers didn't have internal baffles and hence were only meant to be conveyed, particularly on Passenger train, either full or empty due to the force of movement of a part load.

Steven

 

I doubt any rigid wheel base wagon would get main line approval (other than a loco tender)?

 

A 6-wheeled ex-milk taker could get approved for mainline use, but limited to 45mph. Good for a Pannier, but not so good for a 75mph Castle...... The non-stop Bristolian might need to be a multi-day excursion at that speed! Anyone got a few sleeper cars?

I do like the idea of the "free" beer though!

 

my bet is on what someone said earlier a full brake, or the pob with additional water tanks inside with a pump drip feeding the tender as the water level goes down that along with careful firing and driving to not waste steam after all how much water gets wasted by having the engine blowing off all the time
i guess that the tender could be refilled by a connection under the tank rather than by putting hoses in the top ,with a suport crew member being told when to turn the pump on or off by phone from the footplate

 

Careful driving.... lets hope not!! The loco Should get driven in true Bristolian style!! And i know just the man for that!!

 

Michael Schumacher? :jaw:

 

The Stig with Clarkson firing :wink::rofl:

Dave B

 

Some say under his suit he's Brunswick Green....

 

and was raised on a staple diet of Welsh coal..............

 

If you had a full-time connection between the tanks and the tender that was connected under the tender tank (where they hook up the hydrant currently), would you need a pump? I think good old Newtonian gravity could be used....as long as the bottom of the tank was the same level or higher than the bottom of the tender.


And we are talking about Brunell's billiard table. It's as flat a run as you can get. Once they get the Castle wound up to a good Bristolian speed, it is fairly economical in the steam department. I bet it can sit at 75+ on flat track and not go into second valve.... (This is a rhetorical question by the way- I know it can!)

And since this trip is in conjunction with FGW, I bet they have the path worked out so there will be limited chances of Yellows....