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Post by d7666 on Dec 30, 2022 8:35:19 GMT
Well not just 12, all of them.
What is the reason for the double width cab doors on the right hand side in direction of travel ?
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Post by metman on Dec 30, 2022 13:21:43 GMT
If you look at photos of the second batch of 1907 built British Thompson Houston machines they had a similar arrangement.
Some of the Metro Vik locos where rebuilt from the early batches of 1906-1907 locos so might have continued this arrangement. Why that arrangement was the case I don’t know.
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Post by class411 on Dec 30, 2022 13:25:27 GMT
Could it have been so that large parts could be moved in and out?
If you ever wanted to murder a health and safety inspector, you could just take him or her for a tour of the insides of Sarah Siddons.
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Post by d7666 on Dec 30, 2022 22:57:27 GMT
Could it have been so that large parts could be moved in and out? Also, w.r.t. both the "B-W" and "BTH" batches were built new by the same company - Metropolitan Amalgamated - neither Westinghouse or Thomson Houston had any locomotive construction capability; they were the main contractors only, subcontracting actual build. Looking through several images, I see now the centre cab "B-W" batch had double width cab doors - and the box body "BTH" batch double width doors on the LEFT hand side in direction of travel - the rebuilds are in the RIGHT hand side in direction of travel. The rebuilds were by M-V - the sucessors to B-W - which makes it even odder. The District Railway BoBo also had double width doors; ISTR reading one of Mr.Connor's essays on those but I don't recall anything about access for moving large internal kit; these too were actually built by Metropolitan Amalgamated, GE kit (so presumably BTH involved). I can't seem to find an image of GN&CR 21. Moving parts might well be the right answer, but it could equally be something else. Like was conveying small parcels _ be it OCS or commercially _ ever considered ? 120 years ago railways thought in very different ways to today. |
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Post by metman on Dec 31, 2022 11:01:48 GMT
Access to equipment is a good shout! Some of those contractor banks and compressors were sizeable!
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Post by roythebus on Feb 25, 2023 0:13:08 GMT
The double doors were indeed for the carriage of parcels and goods. I remember being told about that on stock training on the Met loco at Ricky in 1973.
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Post by spannerpuller on Mar 3, 2023 15:38:45 GMT
I helped to change a compressor on this loco, by driving a forklift truck, when I worked at the Engineers Train Unit at Ruislip some years ago. And indeed the only way to get the old one out, and the new one in was via these double doors. Which was a tight fit, and the foreman went mad, when I knocked one of the door edges.
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