Tangmere out of action (again)

dinmore · Post by **dinmore** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:38 am

Unfortunately Tangmere failed at Rugby on Thursday during a light engine move to Stewarts Lane, the damage looks very painful

and would appear to be a valve train failure of some sort. Hope the damage isnt as bad as it looks, she is for sure in good hands with Ian Riley and Co. hope it's not too long before this mainline stalwart is back in action

Plenty of pics here http://www.stuart9941.fotopic.net/c955400.html

trainlover123 · Post by **trainlover123** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:46 am

One word for this: OUCH!

Keelar001 · Post by **Keelar001** » Sun May 14, 2006 10:50 am

That's what insurance is for, and you can bet Ian Riley will have her covered - she'll be up and about soon enough.

kirkheath · Post by **kirkheath** » Sun May 14, 2006 6:11 pm

trainlover123 wrote:One word for this: OUCH!

TWO words: Major OUCH!!!

lemberg · Post by **lemberg** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:29 pm

Yes as far as I can gather it's fractured one of the valve gear rocking levers.
Lemberg

Website · Post by **Easilyconfused** » Sun May 14, 2006 7:47 pm

Well I know pretty well nothing about steam engines but as a materials engineer (before I discovered IT for a living) I can see that there have been some fairly extreme forces exerted there in directions that were not intended by the original designer. There are some very interesting fracture faces shown on those photos. Nice work by the photographer

These are the sort of photos us engineers craved when confronted with the bent bits after the fact

I hope such a beautiful piece of engineering can be repaired - I have no idea whether any insurance can cover these sort of events as referred to by an earlier poster.

I do suspect that doing that damage made some serious noise though. We used to break / bend smaller pieces and the noise was impressive.

Kindest regards

John

AlanP46 · Post by **AlanP46** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:28 pm

I wondered what Tangemere was doing in the yard ... I couldn't see from where I was inside the old GEC site though.

jimmyladd · Post by **jimmyladd** » Sun May 14, 2006 9:40 pm

I followed it into Buckley Wells on Saturday, and tried to take a sneeky look in Rileys, but no such luck...word is its suffered a Metaphysical Dychotomy

lemberg · Post by **lemberg** » Mon May 15, 2006 7:10 pm

We had a combination lever fracture at the Grosmont on 45212 a couple of year back, what transpired is that it was one of the wartime forgings made from poor quality material.
Lemberg

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:52 pm

Someone wants to tell those at buckley wells to do a better job on the annual overhaul's of which its just come out of.

1. Excessive wheelslip
2. Bad metal
3. Poor pin point check's (Required before any mainline run)

I know 1's a bit extreme after all the rocker dont rock unless the wheels move.

id say there's atleast 12 month's work there a failure like that would have the RAIB involved

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:06 pm

salopiangrowler wrote:Someone wants to tell those at buckley wells to do a better job on the annual overhaul's of which its just come out of.

Nothing wrong with the overhaul standards, just a mishap. Could happen to anything.

Someone wants to tell you to stop posting duff gen

David

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:10 pm

1. Excessive wheelslip

Its a Bulleid pacific. They do little else. Plus isn't that down to the locos crew?

David

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:11 pm

rwaceyw wrote:
Someone wants to tell you to stop posting duff gen

David

dont do 47's

rwaceyw · Post by **rwaceyw** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:17 pm

Forget it.....

salopiangrowler · Post by **salopiangrowler** » Mon May 15, 2006 9:18 pm

rwaceyw wrote:Forget it.....

i knew what you meant a duff is a 47 also