A daily examination of each smokebox netting had to be made by a boilermaker. |
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Operation probably isn't possible without a whole new boiler, and the holey smokebox will need heavy patching even if it doesn't get one. |
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Her smokebox door hangs open, with headlight peering sideways through the fog with a wall-eyed Cyclopean stare. |
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No. 1057 represented the final years of steam with a Pyle National headlight centred on the smokebox door and a standard tender. |
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The combustion chamber was linked to the smokebox through a set of very short firetubes. |
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Nos.70043 and 70044 were delivered with Westinghouse airbrakes fitted alongside the smokebox and with no smoke deflectors. |
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It followed the profile of the Belpaire firebox and extended to a curved profile forward of the smokebox front. |
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The cab at the smokebox end of the locomotive suffered from the same excessive heat as did the fireman's cab. |
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Finally, No. E453 King Arthur was fitted with small, rectangular smoke deflectors fitted to the handrails on the smokebox sides. |
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Open the firedoor and smokebox, don boiler suit and crawl in. |
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The smokebox snifting valves applied to the class by Maunsell were removed by his successor Oliver Bulleid, who also fitted U1 class chimneys to improve the draughting. |
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The smokebox had an inherent problem in maintaining a constant vacuum. |
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The first of the production batch emerged from Brighton works in August 1928 and featured a tapered chimney and smokebox snifting valves, both of which were used on the K and N class locomotives. |
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