Skirts on Locos ?

[RJS1977]

Wow a narrow gauge cab forward!

 

The GVT tram locos were also designed for cab forward operation.

[Dava]

Aberdeen docks were interesting. The normal dock shunters did not have skirts (see the Aveling & Porter loco top left on the docks) but the Aberdeen Gas Works locos which used the dock lines to gain access to the gas works did. There was 'City of Aberdeen', 'Bon Accord' 'Aberdeen Gas works No 3' and 'Mr Therm' , all preserved, before they were replaced by diesels which did not need skirts.

http://www.srpsmuseum.org.uk/10002.htm

http://www.bon-accord.org.uk/history.html

http://www.bon-accord.org.uk/gallery.html?catid=1

 

Just google 'aberdeen gas works locomotives' for images

 

Dava

Edited April 15, 2014 by Dava

[Matthew Snowden]

Here are a couple of shots of my Tram engine, built from a connoisseur 7mm scale kit.

 

 

Hi! Hav u built this urself, its stunning!!! How easy was it? Im after one, bt nt sure bout building frm a kit?? Is it much different to the Silverfox kit?

[The Lurker]

And don't forget the Thomas the Tank Engine series, where the policeman pulls up Thomas for running on a street side line without skirts and the Fat Controller remembers a tram engine he's seen on holiday.......

[Rob Pulham]

Hi! Hav u built this urself, its stunning!!! How easy was it? Im after one, bt nt sure bout building frm a kit?? Is it much different to the Silverfox kit?

 

Hi Matthew,

 

Yes, you can see details of the build from the build here - http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/53833-connoisseur-lner-y6/

 

Sorry, I can't compare it to the Silverfox kit because I haven't seen one - presumably the Silverfox kit is 4mm scale? This one is 7mm.

[Hando]

Wow a narrow gauge cab forward!

Not the only one, the GVT had to use cab-forward thanks to the nasty Board of Trade.

[Killian keane]

My mamod SL1K has skirts

Sorry I couldn't get a more recent picture of the old girl, she is halfway through an extensive rebuild

And who could forget little Secundus, the last surviving loco built in Birmingham

Edited July 18, 2017 by Killian keane

[rockershovel]

Wasn't there a steam tram at Stony Stratford?

 

Google says yes! In fact, it seems to have had the only known example of that ubiquitous 009 type, the skirted saddle tank, so we get "prototype for everything" into the bargain..

Edited July 18, 2017 by rockershovel

[Nearholmer]

There was.

 

A bit about it in post 158 here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/122841-halts-in-all-their-glory/page-7

 

The depot where the trams used to live is still in existence as a builders yard, and one of the huge cars is in the local museum.

 

Kevin

[eastglosmog]

Curiously, the first five Tralee and Dingle locomotives had skirts fitted to comply with the Tramway Regulations  Seem to have been generally abandoned before 1898 when loco no. 6 was built - they apparently got "lost" because they got in the way too much.  Pictures of them with skirts are pretty rare.  No.4 (an 0-4-2T) which worked the Castlegregory branch had cabs at each end.

[Nearholmer]

Yes, and the Schull and Skib was a tramway too, even to the extent of having weedy little "box" 0-4-0T locos. When you see the terrain of either railway you can see that they are about as unlike an urban street tramway as they could be!