Full Steam Ahead ....... hopefully

[Nick Armstrong]

For plutocrats only, I fear. Still there's a lot of them about; when I last looked, it was almost fully booked.

We can press our grubby noses to the window here ... even see what they be a-noshing of

[mangerton]

We can press our grubby noses to the window here ... even see what they be a-noshing of

I hope they're getting Brown Windsor Soup. It used to be staple fare in restaurant cars. I remember Rumpole waxed eloquent on the subject in one of his tales.

[Nick Armstrong]

Did anyone see the pre-departure footage from King's Cross? In the moment or two before departure, an enormous column of steam shot out forwards from underneath the front of the train... Was this just for show? Not sure I've ever seen a steam loco do that before.

[Serial_Apologist]

Did anyone see the pre-departure footage from King's Cross? In the moment or two before departure, an enormous column of steam shot out forwards from underneath the front of the train... Was this just for show? Not sure I've ever seen a steam loco do that before.

It used to happen often with steam trains coming into stations - waiting passengers would be enveloped: used to scare the witsit out of me as a nipper!

[Serial_Apologist]

Did anyone see the pre-departure footage from King's Cross? In the moment or two before departure, an enormous column of steam shot out forwards from underneath the front of the train... Was this just for show? Not sure I've ever seen a steam loco do that before.

It used to happen often with steam trains coming into stations - waiting passengers would be enveloped: used to scare the witsit out of me as a nipper!

(The posting system seems very sclerotic on here today - anyone know what's going on?)

[Nick Armstrong]

It used to happen often with steam trains coming into stations - waiting passengers would be enveloped: used to scare the witsit out of me as a nipper!

(The posting system seems very sclerotic on here today - anyone know what's going on?)

Ah my ignorance then.

And yes - the site is v sluggish here too (Trespassers on the line near St Neots, doubtless)

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Doesn't Iain Cuthbertson emerge from just such an enveloping at the end of The Railway Children- causing Jenny Agutter to call out "Daddy! My Daddy!" and everybody else to blub? (Just like I'm doing now at the very memory, soppy specimen that I am.)


(Or, thirty years later, Michael Kitchen and Jemima Rooper.)

[HighlandDougie]

It used to happen often with steam trains coming into stations - waiting passengers would be enveloped: used to scare the wits out of me as a nipper!

At the risk of being branded as a "trainspotter" (not far from the truth, although I don't have an anorak - yet), here is a simple explanation of the fright experienced by SA (and many others over the years):

"The steam you see coming out from the cylinders is actually controlled by the [crew on the footplate], via what are called the "cylinder cocks". These are ports in the cylinder that can be opened to allow steam and/or water to escape, and the reason you would want to provide them is simple. When starting, a locomotive's cylinders are relatively cool compared to the incoming steam, and water, liquid water, will condense out in the cylinders. These cylinder cocks allow the liquid water, along with some steam of course, to escape, preventing the cylinder heads from damage or being blown off, as liquid water does not compress".

[alycidon]

At the risk of being branded as a "trainspotter" (not far from the truth, although I don't have an anorak - yet), here is a simple explanation of the fright experienced by SA (and many others over the years):

"The steam you see coming out from the cylinders is actually controlled by the [crew on the footplate], via what are called the "cylinder cocks". These are ports in the cylinder that can be opened to allow steam and/or water to escape, and the reason you would want to provide them is simple. When starting, a locomotive's cylinders are relatively cool compared to the incoming steam, and water, liquid water, will condense out in the cylinders. These cylinder cocks allow the liquid water, along with some steam of course, to escape, preventing the cylinder heads from damage or being blown off, as liquid water does not compress".

Och, man! You got there before me!

[alycidon]

At the risk of being branded as a "trainspotter" (not far from the truth, although I don't have an anorak - yet), here is a simple explanation of the fright experienced by SA (and many others over the years):

"The steam you see coming out from the cylinders is actually controlled by the [crew on the footplate], via what are called the "cylinder cocks". These are ports in the cylinder that can be opened to allow steam and/or water to escape, and the reason you would want to provide them is simple. When starting, a locomotive's cylinders are relatively cool compared to the incoming steam, and water, liquid water, will condense out in the cylinders. These cylinder cocks allow the liquid water, along with some steam of course, to escape, preventing the cylinder heads from damage or being blown off, as liquid water does not compress".

Och, man! You got there before me!

[mangerton]

Och, man! You got there before me!

Yes, and me. I don't mind being branded as a trainspotter, and I have my trusty Berghaus!

[Barbirollians]

Some people apparently whinging that it isn't really the Flying Scotsman at all as only 3% of the original remains - no doubt they also think York Minster should have been left without a roof after the fire !

[vinteuil]

Some people apparently whinging that it isn't really the Flying Scotsman at all as only 3% of the original remains - no doubt they also think York Minster should have been left without a roof after the fire !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE

[Nick Armstrong]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUl6PooveJE

Enjoyed the Del-Boy-like reference in that link:

BUl6PooveJE

[MrGongGong]

Some people apparently whinging that it isn't really the Flying Scotsman at all as only 3% of the original remains - no doubt they also think York Minster should have been left without a roof after the fire !

I heard the chap on R4 this morning saying how they had replaced more or less everything to restore it
SO the broom handle and head springs to mind
but nowt wrong with a bit of steam enginarry and i'm sure the folks on the Ned End at Donny were happy today