Tell us something really trivial about your life (vol 24)
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pad58 said:
I had three different types of curry tonight, Fooked if I can remember which one was which, but one had spinage in it.
Spinach would be something saag, lovely 
SWTH thank you
Interesting stuff 
Chumrade, I like
Battert is a chumrade, as well as a staffer. I've watched The Butler this weekend "Ceesiil"
Impasse said:
ChemicalChaos said:
ApOrbital said:
Matt can you cook?
Yes, why?It is also possible to heat tinned soup or beans in the snmokebox, make sure to puncture the tin first or the resulting bang will scare everyone within half a mile out of their skin. It also makes quite a mess of the inside of the chimney...
As for garlic bread... There is a story of an engine owner who put a garlic loaf into the firebox to heat up, then forgot about it and went to move the engine. The resulting draw of the fire sucked the loaf through the heat tubes and blew it out of the chimney like a howitzer. From then on, people refer to baguettes as "tube cleaners" in his presence
SWTH said:
It's a Beyer-Garratt.
The concept was patented in the early 1900's by Herbert William Garratt. The idea was to place the driven axles on separate subframes that pivoted under the boiler cradle. On these subframes the water and coal storage was mounted. This meant a much bigger boiler could be fitted and also give a lower centre of gravity. The concept was to provide a more powerful engine over lines where a conventional locomotive wouldn't fit (usually because of tight curves in mountainous terrain), and to avoid double-heading with the associated crew and maintenance costs.
Beyer Peacock of Manchester took on the concept and built the first one in 1909 - we have that one at the Welsh Highland Railway too - the type became very popular in Africa and Australia. There were even a few built for UK railways. The last ones built by Beyer Peacock were a batch of 2ft gauge machines built for South African Railways in 1958 (though a further batch to the same design were locally assembled in SA in 1968 with boilers built by Hunslet in Leeds). 138 (the red machine in the picture) is one of the 1958 batch, we also have 143 - the last Garratt built by Beyer Peacock. Classified 'NGG16' by South African Railways, they're the most powerful machines in the world on 2ft gauge track - a pair on them generate more tractive effort than a Gresley A3 (Flying Scotsman). They weigh 62.5t in full working order, with 1,400 gallons of water capacity and 4.5t of coal capacity. Boiler pressure is 180lb/sq.in, tractive effort 21,500lbs.
The Welsh Highland Railway imported 3 in the mid '90's, to work between Caernarfon and Porthmadog. It's a very twisty, steeply graded route (over 8 miles of 1 in 40 gradients in both directions) climbing from sea level in Caernarfon to the summit at 670ft near the village of Rhyd Ddu, before dropping down through Beddgelert to sea level, in Porthmadog.
They are huge fun to crew, and get worked hard - unlike most standard gauge stuff that trundles along at 25mph, hardly working, on the WHR the conditions are exactly what they were designed for - heavy loads on long, steep gradients.
I'll sort some pics out in a bit if anyone's interested?
Yes please, i love stuff like this.The concept was patented in the early 1900's by Herbert William Garratt. The idea was to place the driven axles on separate subframes that pivoted under the boiler cradle. On these subframes the water and coal storage was mounted. This meant a much bigger boiler could be fitted and also give a lower centre of gravity. The concept was to provide a more powerful engine over lines where a conventional locomotive wouldn't fit (usually because of tight curves in mountainous terrain), and to avoid double-heading with the associated crew and maintenance costs.
Beyer Peacock of Manchester took on the concept and built the first one in 1909 - we have that one at the Welsh Highland Railway too
- the type became very popular in Africa and Australia. There were even a few built for UK railways. The last ones built by Beyer Peacock were a batch of 2ft gauge machines built for South African Railways in 1958 (though a further batch to the same design were locally assembled in SA in 1968 with boilers built by Hunslet in Leeds). 138 (the red machine in the picture) is one of the 1958 batch, we also have 143 - the last Garratt built by Beyer Peacock. Classified 'NGG16' by South African Railways, they're the most powerful machines in the world on 2ft gauge track - a pair on them generate more tractive effort than a Gresley A3 (Flying Scotsman). They weigh 62.5t in full working order, with 1,400 gallons of water capacity and 4.5t of coal capacity. Boiler pressure is 180lb/sq.in, tractive effort 21,500lbs. The Welsh Highland Railway imported 3 in the mid '90's, to work between Caernarfon and Porthmadog. It's a very twisty, steeply graded route (over 8 miles of 1 in 40 gradients in both directions) climbing from sea level in Caernarfon to the summit at 670ft near the village of Rhyd Ddu, before dropping down through Beddgelert to sea level, in Porthmadog.
They are huge fun to crew, and get worked hard - unlike most standard gauge stuff that trundles along at 25mph, hardly working, on the WHR the conditions are exactly what they were designed for - heavy loads on long, steep gradients.
I'll sort some pics out in a bit if anyone's interested?
Pics:
The view ahead from the firemans side of 138 at Rhyd Ddu:
143 between Plas-y-Nant and Snowdon Ranger.
87 - a 1936 machine built under licence in Belgium - at Porthmadog. Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie 'Earl of Merioneth' arrives with a train from Blaenau Ffestiniog.
The business end; 143's cab and firebox.
138 at Porthmadog.
138, taken from the back of the train:
K1 - the 1909 prototype arrives at Rhyd Ddu double-heading with 87.
Nice roller by the way CC, drove one years ago - very quickly realised the importance of thinking ahead during manoeuvring!
The view ahead from the firemans side of 138 at Rhyd Ddu:
143 between Plas-y-Nant and Snowdon Ranger.
87 - a 1936 machine built under licence in Belgium - at Porthmadog. Ffestiniog Railway Double Fairlie 'Earl of Merioneth' arrives with a train from Blaenau Ffestiniog.
The business end; 143's cab and firebox.
138 at Porthmadog.
138, taken from the back of the train:
K1 - the 1909 prototype arrives at Rhyd Ddu double-heading with 87.
Nice roller by the way CC, drove one years ago - very quickly realised the importance of thinking ahead during manoeuvring!
iva cosworth said:
Sorry to derail your train fun but more iva technical woes.
Where could a file of pictures have gone ?
Some of them have been posted on PH but I can't find the entire file of pics they came from.
It's disappeared from my pictures file.
I hate this laptop !
How many characters in part of the filename? Where could a file of pictures have gone ?
Some of them have been posted on PH but I can't find the entire file of pics they came from.
It's disappeared from my pictures file.
I hate this laptop !
iva cosworth said:
Sorry to derail your train fun but more iva technical woes.
Where could a file of pictures have gone ?
Some of them have been posted on PH but I can't find the entire file of pics they came from.
It's disappeared from my pictures file.
I hate this laptop !
If you know the filenames of any of the pictures, or the name of the folder, then search for it in the start menuWhere could a file of pictures have gone ?
Some of them have been posted on PH but I can't find the entire file of pics they came from.
It's disappeared from my pictures file.
I hate this laptop !
It's a Double Fairlie. Invented by Robert Fairlie in the 1860's and used by the Festiniog Railway to increase haulage capacity without major infrastructure alterations. Driving wheels are mounted on subframes as per the Garratt, but the water and coal are carried on the boiler frame. The boiler is effectively two boilers back to back, sharing a common water space. The driver and fireman stand either side of the boiler (can't walk across the cab). Space is very restricted - although each side of the footplate is 5ft long, they're only 18in wide. Not much space to swing a shovel!
'Earl of Merioneth' is rather more modern than most realise - built in 1979 at the Festining Railway's Boston Lodge Works. Since then Boston Lodge has turned out a new steam engine roughly every ten years - another Double Fairlie in 1992 ('David Lloyd George'), a Single Fairlie in 1999 ('Taliesin'), and L&B 2-6-2T 'Lyd' in 2009. Alongside this, there have also been several total rebuilds of existing machines, from scrap condition to pristine working order.
'Earl of Merioneth' is rather more modern than most realise - built in 1979 at the Festining Railway's Boston Lodge Works. Since then Boston Lodge has turned out a new steam engine roughly every ten years - another Double Fairlie in 1992 ('David Lloyd George'), a Single Fairlie in 1999 ('Taliesin'), and L&B 2-6-2T 'Lyd' in 2009. Alongside this, there have also been several total rebuilds of existing machines, from scrap condition to pristine working order.
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