Settle Carlisle RR

[Carl G. Soderstrom]

This is not narrow gauge (I think) but may be interesting to some.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-39020181

Their Home Page

http://www.settle-carlisle.co.uk/about-us/

[Philip Marshall]

Very neat, Carl. Thanks for the link.

Tornado is of course the new-build 4-6-2 completed in 2008 by the A1 Steam Locomotive Trust. She is definitely standard gauge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Peppercorn_Class_A1_60163_Tornado

[Bill Baskerville]

Such neat station names, you can travel to Giggleswick, or Ribblehead, or Langwathby.

[Wayne Laepple]

Here's a link to a YouTube video of Tornado working the Settle & Carlisle route on Feb. 14. There are no turning facilities at Settle, so the engine ran in reverse one way. The black and white film gives viewers a good idea of how desolate and empty this part of England is. Note: Tornado is a three-cylinder engine, so its exhausts make it sound as if it is moving faster than it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH5xzEW-fLw

Correction made, as noted below.

[Bill Piche]

Note: Tornado is a four-cylinder engine, so its exhausts make it sound as if it is moving faster than it is.

Tornado's 3 cylinders offset 120 degrees, which is why she sounds so much faster for her big drivers.

Most 4 cylinder engines (Like the GWR Saints, Castles and Kings) in the UK are paired and offset 90 degrees (180 inside R/L to outside L/R) to balance each other. Those run incredibly smooth and sound like the correct number of beats per revolution as opposed to the 3 cylinder designs.

[Philip Marshall]

Most 4 cylinder engines (Like the GWR Saints, Castles and Kings) in the UK are paired and offset 90 degrees (180 inside R/L to outside L/R) to balance each other. Those run incredibly smooth and sound like the correct number of beats per revolution as opposed to the 3 cylinder designs.

"God's Wonderful Railway" (GWR) did everything in style.

[Bill Piche]

Most 4 cylinder engines (Like the GWR Saints, Castles and Kings) in the UK are paired and offset 90 degrees (180 inside R/L to outside L/R) to balance each other. Those run incredibly smooth and sound like the correct number of beats per revolution as opposed to the 3 cylinder designs.

"God's Wonderful Railway" (GWR) did everything in style.

"Great Way Round" if you ask the guys at the museums over there that specialize in the Southern Railway.

[Steve Smith]

The Southern Railway in England had a class of 4-6-0 locomotives with four cylinders, the angular intervals, in degrees, between its four cranks being 135 – 90 – 45 – 90.

This resulted in eight evenly spaced exhaust beats per revolution of the drivers, resulting in what was called an eight-beat exhaust.

One of the class, No. 850, the Lord Nelson, has been preserved. At about 8:00 in this YouTube video the exhaust beats are distinct enough, and the view of the drivers unobstructed, so that you can clearly hear/observe the eight-beat exhaust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-dB_ub264