A BR Standard Class 4 Tender Engine PART 8

Continued from p.720 M.E.4756 November 15 We will now concentrate on the wheels and axles(figs 27 to 29). These are the same on all BR Standards except that wheels on the Britannias, Clans, Class 5s and Duke of Gloucester are on roller bearings. However, some of the Britannias were on plain bearings. Now one of the things I can't fathom, is why on earth the driving wheels on the 76000s are different from the 82000s when they are the same diameter? The tank engines were built at Swindon and the tender locos were built at Doncaster, Derby and Horwich. I can't help but feel that there must have been a bit of pettiness going on here. The tender engines have sixteen spokes, and the tank engines have seventeen just to…

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