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Perusing a One-inch map (Rev 1960-61), Sheet 92 "Pickering", I noticed for the first time (I've been interested in the area for decades) that a mineral railway ran virtually due north from New Bridge for about three miles. I assume that this was to serve quarries but little detail is shown...
Right at the end of steam at Colwick they used to paint "COLK" on the smoke box door rather than use the shedcode (let alone a shedplate). I thought it looked terrible!
Then you oddities such as the LMS "Crab" 2-6-0s being classified as 6P5F for a while. Why they should be "More P" than a Black 5 is beyond me but I did read somewhere that it was to justify their (overloaded) use on summer extras.
Surely the Caprotti experiment was on the Black 5s? The Standard 5s were more or less "Production".
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Presumably anthracite would be a higher cost but did it have a higher thermal content to even things up?