Classic Duo
Submitted by Robbie on 19th February 2011
This famous pair are seen heading away northwards from Banbury to be serviced and re-positioned when hauling the Shakespeare Limited specials in the 1980s. This was during the days when tours ran with an Electric Train Heating Locomotive in the rake.E.T.H.E.L.,what a monstrous sight they were.
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Priceless!!
Hello - I too think it priceless. Pity about ' Mallard ' having to wear a BR style named train headboard as it is not in keeping with the LNER ! Phil H. leura. Oz.
Perhaps I could also ask when the large Kylchap funnel was fitted as well! Is that a post LNER feature? I do likr to see her with her skirts on though! Phil H.
Hi Phil
I did a bit of research for you with reference to Mallards Kylchap. According to Wikipedia she was released into traffic on 3rd March 1938 and was the first A4 to fitted with a Kylchap from new. It also told me that during her career she has had 12 boilers and 7 tenders and also lists where they all came from. There is loads more relevant information there if you fancy to take a look.I just entered "4468 Mallards Kylchap" on Google and up it came
Vaughan could probably have told you all this from memory but he's away on holiday spotting "Diesels"!!!
Regards
Robbie.
Wow, 12 boilers sounds like a lot over a 40 year period. Presumably they weren't all new!?
Robbie - thanks for the info on Kylchap chimney fitting to 'Mallard'. Ian - 'Mallard' having had 12 boilers doesn't mean she had twelve 'brand new' just 12 different boilers during her working life. Every time she would have visited the workshops for a 'Heavy General' repair the boiler would have been lifted and sent to the boiler shop for an exam. When the loco was ready for re- assembly she would have been fitted with the next ready to go boiler of the appropriate type. All boilers were of course numbered and that number would have been recorded on the locomotives repair log. The A4's may well have had seven or eight boilers in the spare pool. Hence the recorded 12 different boilers fitted to 'Mallard' [ please note that I am making these comments based on GWR practice with their standard boilers.] Phil H. Leura. Oz.
You are absolutely right Phil. Wikipedia lists all the relevent numbers of the boilers fitted to Mallard and also the names of the loco's they had previously been fitted to,
Very best regards. I would love to get down there one day but the pocket is a bit short of funds and the years are rolling by. My wife has family on the Gold Coast.Maybe I could win the lottery.
Hello Boys! I'm back in circulation!
Hi Robbie - I'm home.
Phil - Sorry, but I must correct you, (I'm being picky now), ships have "Funnels", locomotives have "Chimneys"!
Oh! It's nice to be home!
Regards to all,
Vaughan.
Hi - Vaughan, did you have a nice break? Someone said you went ' Diesel spotting ' Seen any good bent 70's? OK - Chimneys! Maybe I'll use the American term in future - 'Stack' or 'Smoke stack' Either way the chimney funnels up the smoke through the stack! Enough said? Robbie - if you come down here you will get some sun, you might get too much and you might get rain like you've never had, However you will not get anywhere near the steam action you are getting in the UK. I so wish my health and wealth would let me come back just to see the Welsh Highland in action. Can I put in a request for some action shots of the WHR to be posted? I've got some FR and W & L. R photos to post soon. Regards to all, Phil H. Leura. Oz.
Hi Phil,
Yes, I had a good time visiting old friends. A good mate in Bristol, who, like me, will go to see anything that runs on rails. Pity there is no steam around this area at the moment, so we have to go and find locations for when there is steam. But we did see our first 70 (my, are they ugly!).
From Bristol to Barnstaple in Devon, and stayed with a school friend (we have been best mates since 1955). He is not into railways, so we went sight-seeing!
Will try to find some more Welsh Highland pictures, and other narrow gauge.
Regards, Vaughan.
Vaughan - I was hoping a few more of the 70's would get the treartment # 70012 got at Newport docks! Meanwhile did you get a look at the L & B whilst you were down in Lorna Doone country? Regards, Phil H.