OLD BOILER

broads2 · Post by **broads2** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 7:42 pm

no not the wife
there is a boiler / wheels ect outside London Victoria
can anyone shed some light on it

blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Thu Jul 18, 2002 8:24 pm

Hmn, not an answer i know, but along the same lines (pun not intended) there's what seems to be an LNER tender and it's frames outside Doncaster station, anyone know anything about this?
Spearmint

delticbob · Post by **delticbob** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 6:22 pm

Hi Blackfour, I'm from Doncaster.

Do you mean the old tender (in a scrap yard) visable from the train, about half a mile out of Doncaster (LHS)when heading for Seffield?

I believe it came from a D49 originally & was to be used as the basis for a rebuild of some such kettle or other, but nothing has happened yet.

Bob.

broads2 · Post by **broads2** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 6:39 pm

pun taken
i have not seen the boiler and other bits yet
someone was asking me
it seemed an odd place to keep them
a rail preservation place yes but not outside a main line station
are connex trying to tell us something (like bringing back steam loco's)

blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Fri Jul 19, 2002 7:39 pm

Yep, Delticbob, that's the one! I'm from Mexborough as you nkow, so to get to Donny i travel on the Sheff train, so i see the tender every time, in fact, i keep a look out for it! I thought at first it was a Fowler, but then i realised it looked the same as Green Arrows...a rebuild eh? Only re-build in Donny is the P2 team, and they'll need a 5,000 Gallon tender, not a 3,500er! Know owt about it?
Spearmint

eddief · Post by **eddief** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 2:08 pm

I heard that tender was for a Gresley V4 2-6-2 loco. As for the P2, not much seems to be in the news about that lately, hope it happens cos the P2's are fantastic machines.

MikeM7044T · Post by **MikeM7044T** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:32 pm

delticbob wrote:Hi Blackfour, I'm from Doncaster.

Do you mean the old tender (in a scrap yard) visable from the train, about half a mile out of Doncaster (LHS)when heading for Seffield?

I believe it came from a D49 originally & was to be used as the basis for a rebuild of some such kettle or other, but nothing has happened yet.

Bob.

This is intended to build a V4 for the same people who are building 60163 Tornado & . o' North and Earl Marischal.

blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:39 pm

A V4!!!???? Only one of the best proportioned Locos ever! Now they DID have style! And the P2's are, by all accounts, stunning! Gentlemen, i hope you realise that if these schemes get off the ground we will witness Steams second Golden age! The steam loco will rish, Phoenix-like from the ashes! STEAM RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spearmint

MikeM7044T · Post by **MikeM7044T** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:41 pm

Yeah, but it was in 1998 the tender was found and the idea was brought up, hope they do go ahead with it though.
I think the tender went to Morayshire at Bo'ness in the end.

ForburyLion · Post by **ForburyLion** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 3:58 pm

This thread reminds me, A number of years back I'm convinced there was a deltic cab end in a farm garden on the left hand side of the line between Reading and Didcot, I saw it there on two seperate occasions however I have not seen it there recently. It was a blue cab, Yellow end.

blackfour · Post by **blackfour** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 4:02 pm

Er, Mike? The tenders still there! Seperate from it's chassis, rusted to high heaven and under a few crushed cars! Unless i'm seeing things...
Spearmint

MikeM7044T · Post by **MikeM7044T** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 4:31 pm

ForburyLion wrote:This thread reminds me, A number of years back I'm convinced there was a deltic cab end in a farm garden on the left hand side of the line between Reading and Didcot, I saw it there on two seperate occasions however I have not seen it there recently. It was a blue cab, Yellow end.

There was a guy who had cabs in his garden, it was on the BBC, quite an interesting collection too.
I think a Rat and a Western were there too.

ForburyLion · Post by **ForburyLion** » Sat Jul 20, 2002 7:47 pm

[quote="MikeM7044T]There was a guy who had cabs in his garden, it was on the BBC, quite an interesting collection too.
I think a Rat and a Western were there too.[/quote]

And there was me thinking I may have spotted a long lost Deltic at the bottom of someones garden... Or at least part of one.

Cheers MikeM7044T, That clears up something that has been in the back of my mind for a while, I made a point of looking for the Deltic cab the last time I went from Reading to Didcot and back but couldn't see it. (I was supposed to be going to Theale but got on the wrong train! - At least I got to experience a Voyager on the way back

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