Bob Davis
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Steam Locos
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norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
Further to the love video showing the 'run by' of steam engines at Tyseley #111, this is the condition that Earl of Mount Edgcume was in when it arrived at Tyseley.
My photographs are dated August 1983.
Also shown is what was thought to be Hall class loco Albert Hall, but later it was discovered to be Witherslack Hall. Also the condition of Thornbury Castle when it arrived at Tyseley.
The renovation work that is carried out by Tyseley is the best in the business. It is worth pointing out that the wonderful streamlining now adorning Duchess of Hamilton, was also carried out at Tyseley.
Edde
My photographs are dated August 1983.
Also shown is what was thought to be Hall class loco Albert Hall, but later it was discovered to be Witherslack Hall. Also the condition of Thornbury Castle when it arrived at Tyseley.
The renovation work that is carried out by Tyseley is the best in the business. It is worth pointing out that the wonderful streamlining now adorning Duchess of Hamilton, was also carried out at Tyseley.
Edde
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adap2it
master brummie
That's a great shot! It says 1972, didn't take long for us to miss steam!
Dave A
adap2it
master brummie
A little story here Eddie...I was returning my rental vehicle at Gatwick airport before returning to Canada and I met a couple of guys just arriving from Canada. Don't recall how we got on the subject, but they were ex pats that as machinists, were spending a couple of months of their retirement working on the refurbishment of steam engines at the Bluebell Railway. This really appealed to me and I told my wife that this is what I wanted to do after retirement. However, the fact that I didn't retire until I was 75+, made that just wishful thinking.
Dave A
46233 was in action today from Glasgow to Oxenholme and 46100 is out and about on Saturday, both involved with a mammoth
countrywide railtour which starts and finishes in Devon and takes folk as far north as the Highlands.
This will be the tenth consecutive year of running this tour 'The Great Britain'.
Still plenty of main line steam workings around if you know when and where.
countrywide railtour which starts and finishes in Devon and takes folk as far north as the Highlands.
This will be the tenth consecutive year of running this tour 'The Great Britain'.
Still plenty of main line steam workings around if you know when and where.
adap2it
master brummie
It's great to see such great enthusiasm for steam. The locomotives are great to look at, beautifully engineered. Unlike North American steam loco's that looked like a boiler on wheels and totally without character. This is what is available to me if I want the steam experience. https://www.southsimcoerailway.ca/
Dave A
farmerdave
master brummie
Not my area of expertise as I am more Carriage Maintenance/Restoration but, with a Tank engine, probably not much, except in terms of a [maximum] speed limit.
As for Tender engines. Definately differences as to maximum speed limts and also visibility, particularly with the larger Merchant Navy class.
Additionally, running 'tender first', in the rain, means the crews get wet. Many [in Preservation] are provided with the fitment for 'rain covers' but, as to how effective these are...................?
As for Tender engines. Definately differences as to maximum speed limts and also visibility, particularly with the larger Merchant Navy class.
Additionally, running 'tender first', in the rain, means the crews get wet. Many [in Preservation] are provided with the fitment for 'rain covers' but, as to how effective these are...................?
Lloyd
master brummie
Not really, the operation of the mechanical units is as good as identical in either direction. Tank engines like this would have quite often operated 'backwards', and the cab is designed to offer as much protection to the crew as going forwards. Tender engines, unless they had 'cabbed tenders', would be operating into the weather if running backwards - not very nice in a heavy downpour! Here is a model of an LMS heavy goods loco with a tender cab:
farmerdave
master brummie
Mention was made in the Daily Mail today of the "Birmingham Dribbler". It was a steam engine but only a Victorian toy. A description and photo of the Birmingham Dribbler is given in the link below: Dave.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Dribbler
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Dribbler
norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
Just guessing, but I would think it is a Southern Region photograph, as opposed to a Western Region scene. Initially thought it may be a re=built Bullied, but maybe a BR build.
I am sure that someone will have the answer.
Eddie
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
The colour of the gentleman's sign would indicate Midland Region, Devon signs were Western Brown or occasionally Southern green. There will be someone on the forum who will be able to classify the engine and then say...they were allocated to the following sheds..... or someone who will know the station that had no buildings on one platform. Could of course be a Somerset and Dorset still carrying London Midland signs although now split between Western and Southern Region after 1947.
Bob
norfolk brummie
gone but not forgotten
Absolutely correct Bob. Red signs......, London Midland Region. I missed that !.
Bob Davis
Bob Davis
This reduces the number of Stations that it could be, as this is after the date of the Beeching cull, however steam locos were also becoming rarer on BR, the last one running in 1968 in regular mainline service. Looking beyond the engine it looks like goods wagons and also the photo is taken from the bottom of the platform ramp, which could suggest a level crossing. Big BR build engines like this usually worked out of the Northern yards, Kingsmoor at Carlisle was a favourite for them..... and when you've guessed the correct location, make sure we have the engine drivers name
Bob
farmerdave
master brummie
Visited a part of the UK last weekend that I had not been to before. The visit included a ride on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, not far from Leeds, between Keighley and Haworth and back. Pulled on the return by an American steam engine, number 5820 of the United States of America Transportation Corp. There is a link below giving more details of the steam engine, together with two photos that I took. Dave.
https://kwvr.co.uk/steam-train/steam-train-2/
https://kwvr.co.uk/steam-train/steam-train-2/
adap2it
master brummie
As I wrote in post #128, american steam locomotives look like a boiler on wheels and are ugly!
Dave A
Radiorails
master brummie
But the working mechanisms of American locomotives are much more easily reached and serviced ask any one who has to crawl beneath and into the workings of former GWR locomotives.
Later next year one of this type of USATC engines should be working on the Paignton to Kingswear (Dartmouth) line.
Later next year one of this type of USATC engines should be working on the Paignton to Kingswear (Dartmouth) line.
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adap2it
master brummie
I can see that...accessibility regardless of appearance, not unlike the North American approach to electric power supply.
Dave A
Morturn
But what was it doing in Lichfield. As I read it from site https://www.railalbum.co.uk/steam-locomotives/usatc-s160-1.htm below, it was a brake pump
But what was it doing in Lichfield. As I read it from site https://www.railalbum.co.uk/steam-locomotives/usatc-s160-1.htm below, it was a brake pump