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It's not just cars that go for a session on the rollers:
35025 Brocklebank Line, a Merchant Navy 4-6-2 designed by O.V.S Bulleid on the rollers at Swindon in the late 1950s. The rolling road was used for various measurements including drawbar horsepower, coal consumption and maximum evaporation rates. It was also used for testing modifications to understand their effectiveness in a controlled environment. A purpose-built rolling road was also built at Rugby and opened in 1948. They made a few interesting discoveries at Rugby, including when they tested classmate 35022 in original condition a few years previously - the engineers couldn't find the maximum steam evaporation rate for the Bulleid MN boiler even with two firemen feeding the 50sq. ft. grate - in short the boiler was capable of making steam faster than the firemen could feed the fire...
More info and pictures: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/rugby_test...
35025 Brocklebank Line, a Merchant Navy 4-6-2 designed by O.V.S Bulleid on the rollers at Swindon in the late 1950s. The rolling road was used for various measurements including drawbar horsepower, coal consumption and maximum evaporation rates. It was also used for testing modifications to understand their effectiveness in a controlled environment. A purpose-built rolling road was also built at Rugby and opened in 1948. They made a few interesting discoveries at Rugby, including when they tested classmate 35022 in original condition a few years previously - the engineers couldn't find the maximum steam evaporation rate for the Bulleid MN boiler even with two firemen feeding the 50sq. ft. grate - in short the boiler was capable of making steam faster than the firemen could feed the fire...
More info and pictures: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/rugby_test...
Edited by SWTH on Saturday 22 December 22:29
SWTH said:
It's not just cars that go for a session on the rollers:
35025 Brocklebank Line, a Merchant Navy 4-6-2 designed by O.V.S Bulleid on the rollers at Swindon in the late 1950s. The rolling road was used for various measurements including drawbar horsepower, coal consumption and maximum evaporation rates. It was also used for testing modifications to understand their effectiveness in a controlled environment. A purpose-built rolling road was also built at Rugby and opened in 1948. They made a few interesting discoveries at Rugby, including when they tested classmate 35022 in original condition a few years previously - the engineers couldn't find the maximum steam evaporation rate for the Bulleid MN boiler even with two firemen feeding the 50sq. ft. grate - in short the boiler was capable of making steam faster than the firemen could feed the fire...
More info and pictures: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/rugby_test...
Lots of cool photos in there, I never imagined they would put a loco on a rolling road. You can get them for scale model locos, but a full size loco flat out on one of them must have been terrifying to be any where near! 35025 Brocklebank Line, a Merchant Navy 4-6-2 designed by O.V.S Bulleid on the rollers at Swindon in the late 1950s. The rolling road was used for various measurements including drawbar horsepower, coal consumption and maximum evaporation rates. It was also used for testing modifications to understand their effectiveness in a controlled environment. A purpose-built rolling road was also built at Rugby and opened in 1948. They made a few interesting discoveries at Rugby, including when they tested classmate 35022 in original condition a few years previously - the engineers couldn't find the maximum steam evaporation rate for the Bulleid MN boiler even with two firemen feeding the 50sq. ft. grate - in short the boiler was capable of making steam faster than the firemen could feed the fire...
More info and pictures: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/rugby_test...
Edited by SWTH on Saturday 22 December 22:29
SWTH said:
It's not just cars that go for a session on the rollers:
35025 Brocklebank Line, a Merchant Navy 4-6-2 designed by O.V.S Bulleid on the rollers at Swindon in the late 1950s. The rolling road was used for various measurements including drawbar horsepower, coal consumption and maximum evaporation rates. It was also used for testing modifications to understand their effectiveness in a controlled environment. A purpose-built rolling road was also built at Rugby and opened in 1948. They made a few interesting discoveries at Rugby, including when they tested classmate 35022 in original condition a few years previously - the engineers couldn't find the maximum steam evaporation rate for the Bulleid MN boiler even with two firemen feeding the 50sq. ft. grate - in short the boiler was capable of making steam faster than the firemen could feed the fire...
More info and pictures: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/rugby_test...
The testing station at Rugby still intact in August 1983, but nor for much longer...35025 Brocklebank Line, a Merchant Navy 4-6-2 designed by O.V.S Bulleid on the rollers at Swindon in the late 1950s. The rolling road was used for various measurements including drawbar horsepower, coal consumption and maximum evaporation rates. It was also used for testing modifications to understand their effectiveness in a controlled environment. A purpose-built rolling road was also built at Rugby and opened in 1948. They made a few interesting discoveries at Rugby, including when they tested classmate 35022 in original condition a few years previously - the engineers couldn't find the maximum steam evaporation rate for the Bulleid MN boiler even with two firemen feeding the 50sq. ft. grate - in short the boiler was capable of making steam faster than the firemen could feed the fire...
More info and pictures: http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/lms/rugby_test...
Edited by SWTH on Saturday 22 December 22:29
As a kids in the '70s we used to play inside it until we were chased away by crow bar wielding P/Way blokes! My depot's booking on point is in an industrial building which stands about thirty yards from the site of the testing station.
FourWheelDrift said:
ianrb said:
dvs_dave said:
Is that a real pic or a photoshop? If the former, then what’s the story with it. Why would a CN Rail loco be towing a load of class 66’s?
Built in Canada, on their way to the docks for shipment to UK.Clarkson said:
How do they get so little horsepowers from such big engines?
V16 11.6l per cylinder power from 200-904rpm
Edited by Nickyboy on Sunday 23 December 13:29
Edited by Nickyboy on Sunday 23 December 13:30
gazzarose said:
That's fantastic - I never knew such machinery existed.I always marvel at the ingenious, but now totally redundant, technology from such an age. I also can't help thinking that there must have been some real dangers of putting such an enormous steam engine at full pace on a rolling track.
Gareth1974 said:
The driver responsible was a guy called Steadman, based at Saltley depot. He was known as "Stacker Steadman" afterwards
Google "Stacker Steadman" for more details.
rs1952 said:
It is an accident, and a very famous one in railway circles. It happened at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, about 50 years ago.
The driver responsible was a guy called Steadman, based at Saltley depot. He was known as "Stacker Steadman" afterwards
Google "Stacker Steadman" for more details.
Indeed The driver responsible was a guy called Steadman, based at Saltley depot. He was known as "Stacker Steadman" afterwards
Google "Stacker Steadman" for more details.
The story goes that when they demolished the old coaling plant at Saltley about 6 months later, even before the dust had settled some wag chalked ‘Stacker Strikes Again!’ on the rubble....
gazzarose said:
Elf n safety! Thanks for finding that.
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