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Brilliant, thank you.

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...

"Coal scuttles" - like it!

Thank you, very interesting.

I wouldn’t think that this would be a problem at banking speeds.

I understand that initially they were referred to as "Black 'uns" to distinguish them from the red Jubilees. I suspect that "Black 5" was post war.

Control Specials would also use "spare" crew.

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!

And the engine?

I often wondered about 81A. Thank you.

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.

I think that trains are only allowed to exceed 25mph on non passenger days.

I do recall hearing of a 40 arriving at STJ. The crew were told to have their snap and take it away ASAP!

What would the problem have been? Weren't they designed to run blunt end first when required?

Surely the Caprotti experiment was on the Black 5s? The Standard 5s were more or less "Production". 1699002033 Presumably anthracite would be a higher cost but did it have a higher thermal content to even things up?

Do you mean MML paired by use?

I think that the Second man was to look after the steam heating boiler rather than ETH (amongst other duties).

Did they have to be double-manned to provide traction knowledge?

How did this "translating" work

Because it was end to end steam?