"Chiming" D16/3s
Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2014 8:40 am
Quote from First Edition, Part 3C , page 52 of the green books
"No longer would one hear the characteristic chime from the coupling rods as a Claude made its way home to shed"
Now I was about twelve years old the last time I saw/heard a D16/3 at Cromer Top station, but can remember the "ching, ching, ching" sound reasonably well. In later years I became a volunteer footplateman, so became rather familiar with loco sights and sounds.
The sounds I had heard from the D16/3 I put down to the snifting (anti-vacuum) valves bouncing on their seats - typical of a superheated loco fitted with such valves coasting with regulator closed or near-closed.
So the above quote puzzles me. Did the sound really emanate from the coupling rods ? Has anyone any comment to make ?
"No longer would one hear the characteristic chime from the coupling rods as a Claude made its way home to shed"
Now I was about twelve years old the last time I saw/heard a D16/3 at Cromer Top station, but can remember the "ching, ching, ching" sound reasonably well. In later years I became a volunteer footplateman, so became rather familiar with loco sights and sounds.
The sounds I had heard from the D16/3 I put down to the snifting (anti-vacuum) valves bouncing on their seats - typical of a superheated loco fitted with such valves coasting with regulator closed or near-closed.
So the above quote puzzles me. Did the sound really emanate from the coupling rods ? Has anyone any comment to make ?