Steam Memories

Sunday, 3 August 2014

Riddles Standard Class 2 78022

It will be lovely to her back in steam when workshop

time allows

Hard working little engines

For me they always looked like 'real' locos as they

had a tender

Hope 78022 can soon be put back into steam

Friday, 25 July 2014

Movements at Bridgenorth Severn Valley Railway

Visiting midweek means there are ften several

engineering movements

Always lots to see.

Hope you enjoy these.

USA S160 Heavy train awaiting the road

Ready for the return journey to Keighley via Howarth

Oakworth and Ingrow

She has the road. Superb sight and sound

http://www.kwvr.co.uk/

N7 Tank engine of Alfred John Hill at Cheddleton

The GER Class L77, LNER Class N7, is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotives. They were designed by Alfred John Hill of the Great Eastern Railway and introduced in 1915. The design was perpetuated by Nigel Gresley of the LNER after the 1923 grouping. 134 were built; only one of them is preserved.

Also at Cheddleton on the Churnet Valley Railway

The N7s had superheaters and piston valves. They were unusual (for inside-cylinder locomotives) in having Walschaerts valve gear. They were, as London suburban locomotives, fitted with Westinghouse air brakes.
Some were fitted with condensing apparatus for working on the Metropolitan Line and the East London Line but the condensing apparatus was removed between 1935 and 1938.

Many thanks to Wikepedia

United States Army Transportation Corps S100 Class 0-6-0T

I was tempted to take another look at the USA S100

after my visit to the Churnet Valley Railway and

there are many similarities

These Yugoslav-built examples differ in minor details,

but principally the use of plate frames instead of

bar frames, resulting in a higher boiler pitch.

Undoubtedly there are many similarities in all three

Here the Polish engine

'Badger' Kirklees Light Railway

15 inch narrow gauge.

Badger was built by Brian Taylor in 1991 final finishing was completed in the Clayton West workshop.

Badger is a 0-6-4 Saddle Tank Locomotive. That is loosely based on a famous design of contractors’ locomotive which were built in large numbers and exported all over the world.

Badger is one of the Railways hardest working engines and is popular with staff (the General Manager) and visitors alike and can be seen pulling passenger trains and on driver experience courses.