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NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 5:56 pm
by 60800
On steam railway mag's website there is a headline: NRM plans 100mph run for 2013, but that is all the info given.
Does anyone have any info on these plans like loco, location, etc?
Many thanks in advance, JJD
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:40 pm
by Autocar Publicity
I believe that's why it's called a teaser...
Sounds interesting, hope it does go ahead and isn't stopped by the nanny state. Tornado is an obvious candidate, as I believe the Trust is confident a 90 mph speed is achievable and able to be maintained for some time. It would be a 'must-do' railtour for a lot of people.
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 6:49 pm
by Mickey
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Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:11 pm
by Mickey
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Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:16 pm
by S.A.C. Martin
I'm willing to bet it will be a certain Deltic that's been restored for mainline operation. There's no way it will be 100mph for a steam locomotive. (Happy to be proven wrong, but still think it's highly unlikely).
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:28 pm
by Mickey
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Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:33 pm
by 60800
2013 as in the year.
Anyway, I agree that if the run does go ahead, it will probably be with KOYLI. There was quite a few workmen scrambling around her with plenty of hatches open on 25/02/12
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:40 pm
by 65447
Micky wrote:Excuse my ignorance guy's but wot is 2013??.
Add 75 years to 1938 - the year of Mallard's world record - and the answer is...?
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:44 pm
by Mickey
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Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:41 pm
by Autocar Publicity
S.A.C. Martin wrote:I'm willing to bet it will be a certain Deltic that's been restored for mainline operation. There's no way it will be 100mph for a steam locomotive. (Happy to be proven wrong, but still think it's highly unlikely).
That was my first thought, then I saw the story was in
Steam Railway - or am I being too literal (again
)?
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:51 pm
by jukebox
NRM plans 100mph run for 2013
Perhaps not in the UK?
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:52 pm
by Mickey
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Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:32 pm
by 60800
Sorry Micky, but I don't have the faintest idea what you're talking about
A deltic would be the most obvious and most feasible choice for a 100mph run. Even though it was on steam railways website, they are providing a piece of information which is in the planning stage, and the NRM could still be picking a loco to use, wether it will be steam or diesel, we do not know.
Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Wed Feb 29, 2012 10:59 pm
by Mickey
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Re: NRM 2013 100mph run
Posted: Thu Mar 01, 2012 10:37 am
by 65447
S.A.C. Martin wrote:I'm willing to bet it will be a certain Deltic that's been restored for mainline operation. There's no way it will be 100mph for a steam locomotive. (Happy to be proven wrong, but still think it's highly unlikely).
Trouble here is that there is a fundamental difference between 'can do' and 'permitted to do'. 'Tornado' is probably capable of matching, if not exceeding, 'Mallard's' world record but I don't think anyone, at least in the UK, would want to compromise that piece of history. Peppercorn intentionally incorporated all the contemporary elements that would provide for sustained and practical high-speed running, inter alia roller-bearing axleboxes, improved bearings on the motion and alignment/adjustment thereof, steaming capacity and efficient steam passages and so on. The workings have demonstrated that she still has plenty in hand when working fully-loaded specials at the maximum permitted speeds, and the ECML remains a 'race-track' in terms of excellent permanent way alignment and has had many of the kinks and point and crossing work that required checks in LNER and early BR days removed.