Incredibly cool photos of trains

[WelshChris]

mcdjl said:

I want a go, where's the queue?

Unfortunately H&S prevents us from letting the public ride the waggons

[mcdjl]

WelshChris said:

Unfortunately H&S prevents us from letting the public ride the waggons

I'll come volunteer for you... The week of 17 April would be ideal.

[WelshChris]

mcdjl said:

I'll come volunteer for you... The week of 17 April would be ideal.

https://www.festrail.co.uk/volunteering/

[mcdjl]

WelshChris said:

https://www.festrail.co.uk/volunteering/

Cheers, I doubt that me finding another hobby would go down well, especially since we only get over for a week at a time! That and there's a heritage line runs through our village.

[Yertis]

Rumblestripe said:

2007 Gresley P2 locomotive under construction in Darlington.

I wish they’d chosen the less-ugly P2 front-end treatment, althought I guess this one is better for lifting smoke etc up out of the way.

[RichB]

Yertis said:

I wish they’d chosen the less-ugly P2 front-end treatment, although I guess this one is better for lifting smoke etc up out of the way.

I assume the streamlined front end would have required a lot more panel beating and expense?

[Rumblestripe]

RichB said:

Yertis said:

I wish they’d chosen the less-ugly P2 front-end treatment, although I guess this one is better for lifting smoke etc up out of the way.

I assume the streamlined front end would have required a lot more panel beating and expense?

I think that the choice is more to do with not wanting to look like an A4?

I had a chat with the guys building her and if I remember correctly they will receive the new boiler this year and it is interchangeable with the one on Tornado. Which I guess might not be the case if it had to fit in with the streamlined casing?

[RichB]

Rumblestripe said:

RichB said:

Yertis said:

I wish they’d chosen the less-ugly P2 front-end treatment, although I guess this one is better for lifting smoke etc up out of the way.

I assume the streamlined front end would have required a lot more panel beating and expense?

I think that the choice is more to do with not wanting to look like an A4? I had a chat with the guys building her and if I remember correctly they will receive the new boiler this year and it is interchangeable with the one on Tornado. Which I guess might not be the case if it had to fit in with the streamlined casing?

Good point about the A4.

[Flying Phil]

I think it would only be the smokebox needing to be different to get an A4 style front end on the P2. There has been/is? another "New Build" P2 project, at Doncaster I think, which was to have the A4 front.
I also prefer the look of the A4 front, but the existing design is obviously unique and was designed with smoke lifting deflection/ducting in a wind tunnel.
Perhaps the builders may have an alternative front end much later? But they will still have the poppet valves.

[Yertis]

RichB said:

I assume the streamlined front end would have required a lot more panel beating and expense?

That looks bloody fantastic though doesn't it? What a machine. Edward Thompson

Reading around I think it is to do with fluid modelling/getting the exhaust up and away.

[mcdjl]

[WelshChris]

Friday evening train to Boston Lodge?

mcdjl said:

[Rumblestripe]

Had an Easter visit to the Tanfield Railway and went for an "arty" B&W shot of the driver and fireman watering and coaling "Sir Cecil A Cochrane"

[ecsrobin]

WelshChris said:

Steam and F1 in the same photo - who knew?

[mcdjl]

WelshChris said:

Friday evening train to Boston Lodge?

Yes. Thanks to all the volunteers and guides for the evening. We had a great time.

[john_1983]

ecsrobin said:

That's fabulous. Might see if I can get that in a print for the garage wall

[RichB]

john_1983 said:

ecsrobin said:

That's fabulous. Might see if I can get that in a print for the garage wall

Looks like a French railways Class 141 2-8-2 loco. In which case you could get a Gauge 1 live steam model of it which, at 1:32, would be perfect to run with your Scalextric layout in the garden. Build your own model Monaco!

[RichB]

[pingu393]

RichB said:

Were they stripped and ready for action in that Orient Express carriage?

[WelshChris]

mcdjl said:

WelshChris said:

Friday evening train to Boston Lodge?

Yes. Thanks to all the volunteers and guides for the evening. We had a great time.

Glad you enjoyed it.

While you were on the train me and my lot were filming it with six cameras!