Looking in Bird, the drawing of the side of 145, from the same class, shows a flat faced smokebox,
not a sloping one, but then it is difficult to know whether or not he had access to works drawings.
Certainly no contemporary Stirling engines have sloped smokeboxes, which was very much an
LNWR/Crewe idea.
Paul
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Re: G.N.R. Stirling 174 class large 0-6-0.
I had temporarily forgotten that drawing in Bird. Basic as it may be, with un-known basis, it does seem to add to the evidence to show that no matter what the intention may have been at some point in 1871, the realization was an upright front to the smokebox.
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