Heavy Metal

by davidtrout

Big end and valve gear connecting rods on Class 5 steam loco No. 5000 at Locomotion Railway Museum, Shildon, Co. Durham.
K30+DA*16-50mm lens.
Uploaded11/03/2021 - 20:05
CategoryTransport
Shutter Speed1/13
Aperturef/5.6
LensN/A
ISO1000
Focal Length26mm
Views/Likes33/5

Flan
Posted 11/03/2021 - 21:23 Link
They must have done some amount of revolutions . Nice monochrome ,rich in texture . Liked as I have a soft spot for engineering , particularly the older era as mechanically, they were built for longevity .
davidwozhere
Posted 11/03/2021 - 23:55 Link
And each time it has been taken off it has had the **** bashed out of it to get it back on!! .... And interestingly, 6187 isn't a black five, but the Scots ended with 6170 so I wonder where that originally came from?
Both the *istDS and the K5 are incurably addicted to old glass

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GIULIO57
Posted 12/03/2021 - 05:37 Link
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davidtrout
Posted 12/03/2021 - 09:26 Link
davidwozhere wrote:
And each time it has been taken off it has had the **** bashed out of it to get it back on!! .... And interestingly, 6187 isn't a black five, but the Scots ended with 6170 so I wonder where that originally came from?

Well spotted David. I've looked closely at a more detailed photo I have of 5000 and the number may in fact say 6167 but has been partly disfigured by some heavy hammer work. That would mean this came from Royal Scot class loco The Hertfordshire Regiment. Components, even as large as boilers were commonly swapped round engines when they went to works like Derby, Crewe, Doncaster etc for major overhauls.
David
Edited by davidtrout: 12/03/2021 - 09:28
leep
Posted 13/03/2021 - 14:44 Link
Good image
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