Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 1:30 pm Post subject: gas lit carriages
how are they filled and what gas is used. town or oil gas
http://wapedia.mobi/en/Quintinshill_rail_crash _________________ if practical people ruled the world we'd still live in caves.
A bit further on into the article it says:
The gas (oil-gas) was stored in reservoirs slung under the underframe. These reservoirs had just been charged and this, plus the lack of available water, kept the resulting fire burning for two days.
How they filled them and exactly what it is, I haven't a clue (my guess is that Pol is on the case! ) _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
From my bookshelf, Red for Danger by L.T.C. Rolt.
"All the Great Central stock of the troop train was gas lit and just before leaving Larbert the gas cylinders had been fully charged to a pressure of from five to six atmosheres."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_lighting
Oil gas appeared in the field as a rival of coal gas. In 1815, John Taylor patented an apparatus for the decomposition of "oil"and other animal substances.
The impact of the railway on society in Britain By Jack Simmons, A. K. B. Evans, John Gough suggests to me that they used Pintch's compressed oil-gas system. http://tinyurl.com/mxtre5
Although the accident inquiries usually blame people for not following safety procedures I suggest the fault lies in not making the systems 'distracted proof' (one accident was caused by a signallman who was distracted by the fact his baby son had just died) and 'idiot proof' (another accident was caused by a signal boy, you could hardly say man, who had a habit of leaning on the point levers as trains were passing over the points. Of course, one day, the points moved and caused a derailment with many killed). _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t184/Poliss_album/
Tom knows I like finding things on the interweb. I wonder if he knew that I've read one or two railway accident books too??? _________________ Get off the line Bobby!
http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t184/Poliss_album/
It must run in the family, what with my granddaughter being a witch. (BTW, she failed last Saturday on the Lottery - I got all 6 numbers but, unfortunately, on 5 different lines!) _________________ OK, so now what do I do?
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