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Tim Watson wrote: ↑Thu Feb 09, 2023 12:25 am ...whether the reversing gear balance weight (seen above the frames) was visible when the engine was in forward gear.

Have a look at the A2 photographs on https://www.rail-online.co.uk/p658918074

There's one of 2400 at Cowton which may answer your question. Also the one of the same loco at KX with the dynamometer car - looks like it's about to depart, so probably in forward gear.

The weight is not visible in photos of engines at rest.

Many thanks. Well spotted: the Cowton image nails it. The KX image shows it clearly, but one wouldn’t know what the engine was about to do or had just done.

Tim

Anyone any idea where this image of 2400 was taken?

The loco has the ? pyrometer? on the smoke box and it is in NER livery, which was as it ran in the trials against the A1, running into KX in July 1923. The signals look like somersaults. At the back end, someone is hanging onto the outside of the cab and there is some ?piping on the tender front. There also appears to be some sort of cover over much of the cab roof.

Quite an intriguing photo.

Tim

Probably the same period with the Dyno Car in tow. The same set up as in the first photo in the link shown earlier above.

Pyrometer on the Smokebox etc.

Agreed, but where? Maybe taken at KX Top Shed?

Tim