9351 on the West Somerset Railway blasts out of Blue Anchor bound for Bishops Lydeard with the 16:00 from Minehead. The engine was pulling 8 coaches and a friend tells me that with the tender it is equivalent to 9 coaches with the weight of it!
The engine + tender is around 105 tons... but we don't know for sure because it's a design of it own. I guess that from a manor being 109 tons ic tender.
btw, i'm no annorak, but I had to somthing after reading that!!!
thats not really "blasting" you'd know if she was being worked hard and she wasn't being worked there.
MrCreid1990 7 months ago
I think your friend got that wrong!
9 coaches @ 34 tons = 306 tons!
The engine + tender is around 105 tons... but we don't know for sure because it's a design of it own. I guess that from a manor being 109 tons ic tender.
btw, i'm no annorak, but I had to somthing after reading that!!!
wsr9351 4 years ago
nice one mate, you can hear the valve heads expanding just as he sets off!!!
Bigaid 4 years ago