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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 25th Aug 2012 8:50pm
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Dougie
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Sat 25th Aug 2012 11:45pm
On 19th Aug 2012 10:25am, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Canley Station came into existence in much the same way as Daimler Halt.
One of my many photo's that were taken in Coventry
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Fri 31st Aug 2012 3:43pm
The 3F looks like this one just leaving Cov goods yard ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 1st Sep 2012 2:57pm
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 1st Sep 2012 5:12pm
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Old Chapelfields |
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Sat 1st Sep 2012 6:14pm
On 1st Sep 2012 2:57pm, PhiliPamInCoventry said:
Hi all
Was there also a difference in power? you will have to excuse my ignorance as unfortunately i was born too late, in 1964, to appreciate the 'real' steam days ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 1st Sep 2012 6:24pm
Hi Andy, & thank you for your comments.
From time to time, both 3 & 4Fs received slightly different size wheels, which might have either increased the turn of speed or the drawbar. I am not an expert & would love any of our members to enlighten us on this. Looking at my old fifties train spot guides, even the 2Fs were similar in power output. |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sat 1st Sep 2012 6:32pm
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Old Chapelfields |
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Sat 1st Sep 2012 7:05pm
When I used to go down to London in the early 80's Kings Cross was the first port of call to see the last of the Deltics, there was an old railway photographer that used to be on the right hand platform up by the Gasworks tunnel that used to sell his old photographs out of an old BR leather bag, I bought one for 25p and that was one he had took of DP2 Deltic prototype 2 pulling out of KX, it still has his stamp on the back, this is now a common image with the drivers head out of the window, I think DP2 was also called the 'Baby Deltic'?
Best not digress too much as I'm getting a long way from Coventry ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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dutchman
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Sat 1st Sep 2012 9:01pm
On 1st Sep 2012 7:05pm, Catshed said:
I think DP2 was also called the 'Baby Deltic'?
Afraid not Catshed. The Class 23 or 'Baby Deltic' had a different body with a shortened nose and single Napier Deltic power plant: LINK
DP2 had a regular Deltic body and 'proper' diesel engine of the type used in the later Class 50: LINK |
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 2nd Sep 2012 8:38am
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Old Chapelfields |
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Sun 2nd Sep 2012 3:58pm
Thanks for the info chaps, I get rusty on these subjects these days, this is my memento of the Deltics, this being one of the many con-rods from 55003 'Meld' (D9003), she was scrapped in 1980 I think and you wouldn't want to drop it on your foot ![]() ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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PhiliPamInCoventry
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Sun 2nd Sep 2012 4:12pm
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Sun 2nd Sep 2012 4:38pm
Thanks Philip, I think the old Triumph would grumble at carrying that let alone it be fitted to it, and would rather have my Triumph engine as those Napiers were (so I'm told) a right old pain in the neck to maintain and needed more specialised tinkering than the normal diesels, I love the sound they make though, it's unique and can still remember them accelerating through the Gasworks tunnels, but I'd much rather have heard a 9F working hard on the old GCR ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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Catshed
Old Chapelfields |
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Tue 4th Sep 2012 9:50am
No I didn't see that one, and I missed another one that came through a few months ago ![]() Triumph - 'The Best Motorcycle in the World'.
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