Tornado Recent Failure

I am sure most members of this forum will know of the failure of the Ebor Flyer on 14th April. Unless I am missing something I am surprised there has been no comment on here.

May I ask posters to not glory in the failure of this the first steam loco built from scratch since the end of BR steam.

I suppose we are not all into locos, did not know of it myself.

As a commuter, I spent 41 miserable years travelling by train daily.

As a result, and having now retired, I for one do not have much interest in full sized trains, steam or not!

Breakdown mentioned briefly last month on the radio. Didn't shake my world. Anyone want to hear my boring story about blowing a head-gasket? I thought it was exciting, no one else does!

Tornado's a fine engine, but like any other machine, things can and do go wrong. Might be interesting if they can't fix it. Bet they do though!

Just looked at Website, they hope to be back and running by the 10th July.

What actually went wrong with it then ?

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Hard to believe a valve seizure might not have been exacerbated by the 100mph run, if lubricant flow was compromised?

Neil

Thank you David.

I'm pretty sure this is the "Live Steam Locomotive" forum. I would have thought that everyone reading this forum was interested in live steam locomotives.

I think the story about the failure of the "Tornado" is pretty interesting.

David

Road locomotives, yes. Rail locomotives, not so much...

Edited By Mark Rand on 06/06/2018 01:51:23

Road locomotives, that's a good one! For most folks, locomotive means railroad. As it turns out, there is a forum here just for "road locomotives". You'll find it if you look for " traction engine". There is no forum for road locomotives.

David

A Road Loco is a particular type of traction engine, one primerily used on the road. I would also say that "Railroad" is only used to refer  to a locomotive to people from certain countries.

My comment was based on the whole forum, as the OP said "on here", most people don't look at what topic a post is placed under they just look at latest posts. Quite likely those interested in aircraft may well have seen the heading and clicked on it.

Model engineering is a wide and varied hobby, and even wider if you include the home workshop that is not used for model making. If you want to talk to people who think ME revolves around just trains then there are forums where they gather

J

Edited By JasonB on 06/06/2018 07:33:16

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Technically this is the 'live steam locomotives' sub-topic under the 'model engineering' topic.

Perhaps full size railways should be in the 'Tea Room' with 'Aircraft General Discussion'?

Curiously, given how much it's talked about, we don't have a topic/sub-topic for full size engineering!

The correct terms are 'railway locomotives' and 'road locomotives'

Traction engines are a very specific type of road locomotive, the steam equivalent of a tractor unit (which are those things you see pulling semi-trailers around our motorways.

Oh! Joy of Pedantry

... or perhaps we can all fret a bit less about exactly which topic something is posted under, join the threads that interest us and pass over those that don't and leave them for the folks they do.

Neil

Been a long time coming but YESSSS!

Indeed!!

David

Back to our previous program:- I had assumed that the piston valves would have rings. Does seizure imply insufficient clearance for the valve pistons themselves or possibly insufficient ring gaps. I'd a thunk that a lubrication failure would result in excess wear rather than seizure. Oh well, It'll be interesting to see what the report says.

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Live steam locomotive subforum

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Edited By Mark Rand on 06/06/2018 11:05:44

https://www.a1steam.com/2018/06/05/repair-progess/

Cheers,

Julian