edcayton Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Saw a loco at Expo EM yesterday with a very convincing frame on the tender to support a weathersheet. It occured to me that I can't recall seeing this modelled, nor can I find many photo's of it on the prototype. It would seem to me to be a good idea on a model to hide the lack of action in the cab.My question really is for our ex-footplate crew on here, and is really how popular was it with crew? In other words was the tarp left up except in good weather, or was it only erected when conditions made it essential? Ed PS any photo's of models and prototypes would be appreciated. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesome_whistle Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Great Western engines with Churchward style cabs certainly seemed to have the tarpaulin in place during inclement weather. For example, there are quite a few photographs of 43XX 2-6-0s with the tarpaulin up due to the lack of protection given by their cabs. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold gwrrob Posted May 21, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2012 Heres a nice prototype photo,I'm not sure which preserved line it was taken on though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold The Stationmaster Posted May 21, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted May 21, 2012 That pic looks like the Severn Valley. I remember years ago (and long before I worked on the railway) the men on the Down Pilot at Reading moaning like stink about the weather sheet - no doubt at all that it made the footplate a much hotter place to work and could apparently be a right nuisance when shunting plus a claim from one Driver that the sheet never stayed taut and was a nuisance (I think he used a word I didn't understand back then to describe what sort of nuisance, but that might have been someone else years later talking about the wartime blackout sheets which seem to have been universally hated). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cary hill Posted May 21, 2012 Share Posted May 21, 2012 Rood Aston Hall with tarpaulin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 Don't know if this picture counts, a Whelley line banker dropping back to Bamfurlong with a wagon tarpaulin usued to keep the cross winds out when running tender first. Tom Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan76 Posted May 22, 2012 Share Posted May 22, 2012 On the North Yorkshire Moors Railway we currently have in service an S15 which has an open cab and low tender which offers no protection at all when running tender first. Despite this few crew bother to rig the weather sheet. Unless it's raining heavily it's seen as too much trouble and too much of a nuisance in the way it restricts visibility and elbow room on the footplate. Last week I left Pickering in a hailstorm. I was happy with my peacoat and a baseball cap! Alan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Siberian Snooper Posted May 22, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 22, 2012 On the North Yorkshire Moors Railway we currently have in service an S15 which has an open cab and low tender which offers no protection at all when running tender first. Despite this few crew bother to rig the weather sheet. Unless it's raining heavily it's seen as too much trouble and too much of a nuisance in the way it restricts visibility and elbow room on the footplate. Last week I left Pickering in a hailstorm. I was happy with my peacoat and a baseball cap! Alan It Rains in Yorkshire???? And I thought that side of the country were under drought restrictions!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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