Re: Were locos too heavy for coal drops?
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2021 8:26 pm
A class 31 was definitely too heavy for the drops at Driffield, as was spectacularly proven one day in in the early 1980s 
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Re: Were locos too heavy for coal drops?
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:55 pm
Managed to Google the above and entertainment +++, all started by errant brake van
Re: Were locos too heavy for coal drops?
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 1:54 pm
Here is an exception I believe. Presumably the construction of the drops determined what was allowable. This is at Barnard Castle Goods. I'm uncertain what happened after the demise of the J24 & J25 but the goods yard was often shunted by an Ivatt 2MT.
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Re: Were locos too heavy for coal drops?
Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2021 9:28 pm
RA 3 in BR days.