NER Steam reverse gear

[Jon4470]

For the B16, the steam reverse was, effectively, behind the Westinghouse pump. It is more visible once the pump had been removed in the first half of the 1930s.

 

Looking through the relevant Yeadons volume it looks like the control rod left the cab at about the level of the bottom of the windows. (On the A2 the rod was within the handrail and thus higher up). The rod was horizontal and, from the valve, a pipe curved around the boiler vertically into the frames. My knowledge of the operation of the steam reverse is limited, so I don’t know what happened between the frames. These two crops from photos should help to explain what I’m saying (I’ll remove them if they cause any copyright issues)

 

 

 

 

There is also a reference to the earlier steam brakes being two handle operation. This was altered to single handle in the early 1930s….I don’t know if this affected the external appearance at all.

 

 

 

Edited September 30, 2023 by Jon4470
Clarification

[micklner]

Jon

 

Thanks very helpful.

[Blandford1969]