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Post by nickf on Mar 4, 2013 17:18:44 GMT
Basilica Fields website has published this quite well known account of a footplate trip around the District and Metropolitan Railways in 1893. linkHowever this is the first time I have seen Fred T. Jane's illustrations which I think are really interesting, although some (especially the picture of the fireman at work)take a bit of artistic licence. I wonder if this is the same Fred T. Jane who brought out Jane's Fighting Ships, a catalogue of all the fighting ships in the world's navies. |
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Post by grahamhewett on Mar 4, 2013 17:29:47 GMT
A fine mixture of Piranesi and Gothick horror... I see that journey times are not greatly improved over the last 120 years...
GH
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Post by nickf on Mar 4, 2013 19:40:12 GMT
..................... However this is the first time I have seen Fred T. Jane's illustrations which I think are really interesting, although some (especially the picture of the fireman at work)take a bit of artistic licence. I wonder if this is the same Fred T. Jane who brought out Jane's Fighting Ships, a catalogue of all the fighting ships in the world's navies. Given this Wiki reference link it probably is the same Fred T. Jane. Quite a lad! I've got a reprint of his 1898 version of All The World's Fighting Ships and it is illustrated with his drawings: later editions changed over to photographs. |
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Post by stevo on Mar 4, 2013 19:44:40 GMT
I stopped reading at the beginning of the third paragraph when it was claimed "our train rushed into the station". Steam hauled trains do not rush into stations. They tend to slow down first and enter the station at a reduced speed
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Post by nickf on Mar 4, 2013 19:48:55 GMT
One detail that interested me was the author's observation that the water tank was hot - suggesting that the footplate crew were using the condensing mode. I have read elsewhere that some crews were rather negligent in this respect, as it affected the drawing of the fire by diverting the exhaust from the cylinders from the blast pipe into the water tanks.
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Post by mrfs42 on Mar 5, 2013 1:52:49 GMT
I stopped reading at the beginning of the third paragraph when it was claimed "our train rushed into the station". Steam hauled trains do not rush into stations. They tend to slow down first and enter the station at a reduced speed They don't in late Victorian hyperbole; and nor did they in the days of the steam 'jazz' service out of Live. St.. Unfamiliarity suggests a gentler approach than was historically the case. Look at the pictures and see it in a 'ripping yarn' sense; fab find BTW. |
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