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https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100437398 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soke_(legal)

Many years ago on National Preservation I got into a disagreement concerning the number of spokes that the BR3 engines had. Now I understand why. I assumed that the tank and tender engines had the same wheels; not so. I counted the spokes on the tender engine because they were easier to see, hence I was wrong for the new build tank engine. This is weird. Why did Swindon design two wheels with all the expense involved when one must surely have served? Crackers!

The reason was that it was thought that the structure of the locomotive would be too close to the wire. This might cause a flash-over. I think that opinion changed after 1968 and the yellow stripe wasn't actually needed. IIRC maintenance crews on pantographs found that the carbon pickup strip lasted for a lot longer post August 1968.

Was that on the same axle? Did both have the triangular rim?

Yes, but the maps can't show when the track in question was re-laid to tram track

Enlarging the photo shows that the track is the tramway type, which is interesting in itself. The track at the exchange siding with the canal was standard bullhead set into cobbles, but here it's tram track. I wonder when it was re-laid.

I've now had two refills with E10 and fuel economy is definitely less than with E5. But the cost at the pump seems to be the same!

Just come across this thread looking for something else! I have used AGW to convert a Vitrains 37 to P4 with no issues at all. But, the 08 was a different matter! The main issue was that the Bachmann 08 is out of the loading gauge below platform level, although I believe the same is true of the Hornby. This meant that whenever the cranks hit a lineside obstacle the cranks moved and the loco stopped. I tried different methods of fixing the cranks but the result was always the same. The solution was to buy Ultrascale which are fixed securely to the axle so the loco just stalls with no I'll effects on the quartering. I know the timescales for Ultrascale is a little daunting but they're worth it.

Oh dear, sarcasm. Perhaps not a model of 'courtesy and respect' but I do believe in liberalism and being an enemy of those who purvey self serving rubbish on sites such as this. There are too many virtue wavers. I repeat, people who have been twice jabbed are fully able to go about their lawful business without a mote of guilt. This as it should should be but I have my reservations, great reservations, about anti-vaxxers.

Sorry Tony, no. You were engaged in a lengthy conversation with a bloke and, after hanging about, I decided that perhaps some other time. The 78XXXs remain in their boxes in the bottom of the wardrobe because I've lost the mojo. I haven't done anything for six months, but there are signs that the club will be opening up next week so you never know. I don't mind if people don't wear a mask, although I know it exercises some. Personally I prefer to, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the inconvenience gets to me. The wet face and the steamy glasses are a pain, and most adults have been jabbed twice. My mate had been done three times. Lucky him.

Virtue waving. People are perfectly entitled, by law, to wear a mask or not. I choose to wear a mask others don't.

It is a personal choice now. The behaviours in the second paragraph could become matters for the law! As most adults now have the second jab think it's reasonable that it's a personal issue. I attended the South Notts show last Saturday and many visitors were not wearing masks. I was one of those who were, but that's my choice. I didn't feel in any way ill at ease because there were those who chose differently.

Sorry Steven, but the LMS standard compounds were used on the WCML

It was also true that the Midland Compound, nominally a smaller engine, was better than either of them.

http://authority.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-Gov09_07Rail-t1-body-d3.html

The area around Crumpsall Hospital 1932

The sticks are coupling rods I too have difficulties with the conventional way of supplying juice to motors, I find that it is a pretty poor design, and yes I know that millions of railway modellers get on with it just fine, but it seems to me to be a constant hassle. I think the solution is battery powered radio control. Simple!

It wasn't specific to the GWR! The concept was invented in the late 1860s by Joseph Whitworth and its first use in railways was, I think, by Ramsbottom. Other British railways took it up in the early 1870s. Although Dean gets a lot of stick because of his experimental locos, he too was a great exponent of standardised components.

IIRC it is possible to fit an adaptor, but I can't for the life of me remember the details. I'm sure someone else can.

To go back to this. I think that if this was really a black mission then the transponder would be off, so rendering the aeroplane invisible to a SSR (Secondary surveillance radar). The machine would still be visible to a primary radar though.

Sorry

The Britannia class and 71000 were never equipped with mechanical stokers. Putting aside the issues with the Co-Bo class there is every reason to think that a manually fired 9F would have done the job just fine. Particularly the double chimney examples. The Midland used its Compounds on its 'Scotch' fast freights. The locos were of Kentish Town shed and were stopped at Holbeck for an examination and service.

Yep, that one. Pain in the b#llocks

I noticed that it isn't advertised here