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    Gresley was as conservative as most CMEs of his time; as originally built, his pacifics had 180 p.s.i. boilers and short - travel valves. It took the exchage with the GWR Castle in 1925 to convince him of the advantages of a higher steam pressure, and a great deal of persuasion by Spencer and Bullied for him to adopt long - travel valves. I suppose the good point about the original A1s was that they could be upgraded reasonably easily.
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    Quite common around Ashton, though. Near IKEA?
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    Well, part of Metrolink was closed, again, when someone drove onto the tracks. My understanding is that it was near Altrincham
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    Time for someone to go delving through the records
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    A reservoir near to where I live has had floating solar panels for quite a few years now. On the water turbine generators in rivers and streams, a local impounding res. has had a turbine fitted for a while, as has a tiny stream. These things are beginning to happen.
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    Bit like steam, then!
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    Very happy Christmas to you Dave. Keep 'em coming!
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    Like the company transporting the beam reconnoitering the route for hazards, and informing the relevant authorities of their route and timings, so that they could liaise together? That was one of the recommendations of the Hixon inquiry, and it seems strange that such proceedure aren't implemented elsewhere. Maybe reposition the traffic signals to lessen the chance of such a thing occurring again, as well
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    What's one of them?
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    Remember that old age comes to us all!
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    Luxury!
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    The nearest repair shop was Wolverton.......
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    Yes, the Japanese attack down the Malay peninsula was masterful; their "Hook and infiltrate" tactics unsettled the Empire troops involved. They employed similar tactics in Burma, with the same effect on the troops on the ground, and it took Slim's Battle of the Admin Box in 1943 (IMHO), to show to his troops how they could defeat the Japanese.
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    Oldham and Torquay! Agree with you there
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    He's correct! There was a perception, among the European democracies at least, that the Japanese were all short - sighted, for instance; or that they couldn't fly aircraft as Europeans/Americans did. After Pearl Harbor (bringing the thread back onto the subject) the Americans saw their war in the Pacific as a moral crusade against inferior orientals who needed to be wiped from the face of the earth.
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    National League, the old Vauxhall Conference. Sadly!
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    The RCTS "green book"* says that when the LNER were looking at a more powerful design for the GE section than the B12s, they considered a tank engine, but the Sevenoaks derailment dealt the idea of express passenger tank engines a mortal blow * RCTS Locomotives of the LNER Part 2B: Tender engines classes B1 to B19, in the part about class B17
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    You're correct; for the design department had axle load informing every decision (Nominally, it was designed by S.D. Holden of course, but it was the drawing office that was entirely responsible). The GE needed a loco more powerful than the Claud, as they were becoming overloaded on the hardest turns. After the modifications in the 1930s (slightly larger boiler, long - travel valves) they became quite good locos, not that they weren't before. BR put them in class 4P3F
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    Really wouldn't want to be the fireman with a firebox that long, even with the special longer - handled shovels supplied for this class. Make the wheels 6 foot, or even 5 foot 8 (a G.E. mixed traffic 4-4-0 with that size wheels reached the G.A. stage - it was reproduced in Backtrack many years ago); shortens the firebox and/or boiler.
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    Is that the Stalybridge Pullman? I think that was about the only thing using that bay by that time.
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    Oh, yes! Up the beach off Lagos in 1975! Looking at a damaged prop in Stockholm in 1972. Ship trimmed heavily by the bow to get it clear, with a Storno to engine room to get them to turn the engine.
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    I never did any of that! I was on several ships where the lifeboat was used (never for the purpose it was installed for, thank the lord!)
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    Apart from mentioning that your dad took some superb photos that deserve a wider audience, black and white
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    Surprised to see that! What engine is it?
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    S69 (LNER B12): bigger boiler, bigger cylinders, smaller driving wheels, big piston valves instead of slide valves. Superheated from the off Not really a development, but completely new design, with, in late LNER days a lower RA. I think the firebox was over the middle coupled axle. The firebox being in the postion it was led to the long cab.
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