Buckjumper
Flying Squad
West Mersea
JB's L1 had been running jerkily into the platform at WM all afternoon, and he couldn't explain why. At the end of the day, with just JB, Col, myself and Peter Hunt left, it became clear. Or indeed, clearance. The cylinder was rubbing on some of the platform edging slabs. Someone jokingly suggested glueing some wet & dry to the cylinder until he realised the others were all nodding sagely into their beards...
So, with some w&d taped to the loco, JB ran it up and down a few dozen times and bingo...
JB's L1 had been running jerkily into the platform at WM all afternoon, and he couldn't explain why. At the end of the day, with just JB, Col, myself and Peter Hunt left, it became clear. Or indeed, clearance. The cylinder was rubbing on some of the platform edging slabs. Someone jokingly suggested glueing some wet & dry to the cylinder until he realised the others were all nodding sagely into their beards...
So, with some w&d taped to the loco, JB ran it up and down a few dozen times and bingo...