Prototype Pannier Tank on the Severn Valley

Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
On Sunday we visited the SVR to collect Chris's paintings that had been on exhibition at the Kidderminster Railway Museum and closed that day.

While Chris was in GRA council meeting I had a stroll down the platforms. it was a bit of a miserable day and to say it was a bank holiday Sunday there wasn't much happening. I did manage to get a few photos of Kerr Stuart Built Pannier Tank 7714

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There are lots more on my Flickr site.
 

Dave Holt

Western Thunderer
Marvellous photos, Rob, showing lots of interesting detail and potentially very useful. A couple of years ago I built a replacement chassis for a Pendon Museum pannier, using a High Level kit, and access to these types of photos would have been a boon.
Dave.
 
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Rob Pulham

Western Thunderer
Thanks Dave,
I can't really stop myself from looking at everything in modelling terms. So where possible I try to take photos of the less obvious bits.
 

Dave Holt

Western Thunderer
Yes, you're dead right there, Jordan.
I imagine it's that shape to reach the fire bars below the firehole and in the back corners of a fairly deep firebox within the confines of a very small cab. I believe it's a bent dart or pricker. Tender locos also often had such implements, but with more room to manoeuvre they weren't such an extreme shape.
Dave.
 

bogusman

Western Thunderer
The bent fire iron bar is normally known as a chisel bar for breaking up the clinker on the fire bars. The reason it's so long is that the firebox is quite deep on pannier tanks. Normally the fire shape was what was known as saucer shape. Spent many happy days firing and driving this engine on the SVR

pete
 
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