Hello all,
I've been away that long that I can't remember if you like photos on here. Well just in case you do I thought that I'd post a few, all are copyright and are only posted for information purposes. Now where to start?
I'm thinking information about the loco could be a good starting point.
This one has the dates of building and other information like the fitting of double chimneys and such.
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These two are for Queen Elizabeth (the late queen mum).
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Now to get on to the details of the loco and some of her sisters. These photo show the shroud around the cylinder drain cocks. Note also that there's no vent in front of the cylinders. Also the small hatch to the side of the single chimney.
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One of the red ones showing how the front end changed in the second batch of streamliners. It also look like the handrails on the front end had changed shape a bit.
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Back to the blue ones, a nice high angle shot of 6220 departing Euston on the nearly fatal high speed test run.
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Now onto some of the details first the speedometer drive.
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The drivers side live steam injector. This loco is still with her old streamlined tender you can tell this by how high up the top of the door opening is on the tender.
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A couple of photos showing the exhaust steam injector. How about the good! paintwork on the tender. It also goes to show how the elements got to the original colour, I would have loved to see this photo in colour.
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A photo showing a non-streamlined one showing the cab door opening look at how much lower the doorway cut out goes.
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The sort of photo that we (most) of us like, the cab shot.
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If you want more information about the paint work I should be able to dig some out. This shows how the lining was laid out on the blue ones and the red ones. Along with the buffer beam and the experimental blue livery.
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Hope this helps a bit.
ATB
OzzyO.