Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:53 pmThe tanks hold the waste from the toilets - The tanks are taken to Shields depot for disposal of the effluent
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Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:53 pmRe: One for the railway heads
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:26 amI heard that the loco left a lot of smoke in Argyle Street Station!
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:02 pmNice pic Helen
Alycidon, I expect you of all people being a railway enthusiast of some experience and having the nomiker you do must be aware of the Deltics propensity to create vast smoke screens.
Especially if after sitting a while. Being a 2 stroke a certain amount of oil will be ejected and as I understand this pools in the exhaust where it burns off under load with a hot exhaust.
I believe quite a few of them have caught fire in the past
John
Alycidon, I expect you of all people being a railway enthusiast of some experience and having the nomiker you do must be aware of the Deltics propensity to create vast smoke screens.
Especially if after sitting a while. Being a 2 stroke a certain amount of oil will be ejected and as I understand this pools in the exhaust where it burns off under load with a hot exhaust.
I believe quite a few of them have caught fire in the past
John
Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 5:30 pmold jock wrote:Nice pic Helen
Alycidon, I expect you of all people being a railway enthusiast of some experience and having the nomiker you do must be aware of the Deltics propensity to create vast smoke screens.
Especially if after sitting a while. Being a 2 stroke a certain amount of oil will be ejected and as I understand this pools in the exhaust where it burns off under load with a hot exhaust.
I believe quite a few of them have caught fire in the past
John
That said, drivers of diesel locomotives using the Central Low Level have instructions to coast as much as possible through the stations, as a drive of a charter "playing to the gallery" opened up a Deltic through Argyle St and casued an evacuation as the alarms were all set off!!
Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 6:56 pmUnderstood Alycidon
If anybody is curious about inside the cab and what it's like to sit in the driver's seat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cptQEYepy44&feature=share&list=UUD7EaaJL7q8HQkhKd-aAYtg
Taken on a Deltic experience day.
Bloody expensive but lots of fun & glad I did it
John
If anybody is curious about inside the cab and what it's like to sit in the driver's seat
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cptQEYepy44&feature=share&list=UUD7EaaJL7q8HQkhKd-aAYtg
Taken on a Deltic experience day.
Bloody expensive but lots of fun & glad I did it
John
Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 9:53 pm
Evidence of smoke
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 10:26 pmAh, the unnatural blue air that I remember from my youth 
Two stroke though? So effectively they're titanic petrol lawnmowers? Excellent!
Two stroke though? So effectively they're titanic petrol lawnmowers? Excellent!
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:17 amLP
Yup 2 Stroke Diesel and not your average engine either. No cylinder heads port timing and compression is controlled by opposing pistons, so the engine has 3 crankshafts.
Link if you are interested on a pretty unique engine manufactured by Napier. The original concept was developed by Junkers and used in aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
Loco has 2x 18 cylinder engines each powering a generator, of a little over a MW each, these in turn provide the elek-trickery to the traction motors in the bogies.
I'll get ma anorak
John
Yup 2 Stroke Diesel and not your average engine either. No cylinder heads port timing and compression is controlled by opposing pistons, so the engine has 3 crankshafts.
Link if you are interested on a pretty unique engine manufactured by Napier. The original concept was developed by Junkers and used in aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
Loco has 2x 18 cylinder engines each powering a generator, of a little over a MW each, these in turn provide the elek-trickery to the traction motors in the bogies.
I'll get ma anorak
John
Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 9:43 amTELT. 
Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:43 pmold jock wrote:LP
Yup 2 Stroke Diesel and not your average engine either. No cylinder heads port timing and compression is controlled by opposing pistons, so the engine has 3 crankshafts.
Link if you are interested on a pretty unique engine manufactured by Napier. The original concept was developed by Junkers and used in aircraft.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napier_Deltic
Loco has 2x 18 cylinder engines each powering a generator, of a little over a MW each, these in turn provide the elek-trickery to the traction motors in the bogies.
I'll get ma anorak
In fairness, the guy who designed an engine of this complexity must have been King Anorak himself. Anyone with a talent like this should have been out impressing women rather than playing with a trainset.
John
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Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:10 pmmind a few years ago I was on a class 40 hauled railtour and for some reason we got held at argyle street for 30 minutes with the loco idling away. to say there was a smokescreen was an understatement. then of course when we pulled away with load 9 the clag was spectacular cue alarms going off at argyle st, central ll and anderston. and on the way home the driver played to the gallery and made some noise and clag to wind up the saturday night normals, we thought it was funny but it was a aletour that drank morrisons in fort bill dry and empties it of munchies
Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 3:30 pmNot sure how many on here would be interested in this railcard, launched nationwide yesterday
http://www.twotogether-railcard.co.uk/
Its for 2 people who travel regularly together, gives you a third off rail travel.
The photocard contains both your pics and is only valid when both named people are travelling, valid on all standard, off peak and advance fares....however its not valid during peak hours (before 0900 mon-fri in strathclyde, 0915 network services)
Cost is £30 per year, it was originally being trialed in the West Midlands and seemingly was successful
http://www.twotogether-railcard.co.uk/
Its for 2 people who travel regularly together, gives you a third off rail travel.
The photocard contains both your pics and is only valid when both named people are travelling, valid on all standard, off peak and advance fares....however its not valid during peak hours (before 0900 mon-fri in strathclyde, 0915 network services)
Cost is £30 per year, it was originally being trialed in the West Midlands and seemingly was successful
Re: One for the railway heads
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:01 pm