A Victorian Trot

[GarethKitchener]

Another one from the Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre:

Canon EOS R7 with RF-S 18-150mm lens.
Processed using Apple Photos.

 

[Asher Kelman]

Gareth!

I guess she’s riding side-saddle, as a chaste lady is won’t to do! How interesting!

Did you get pictures of the steam engines too?

BTW, what breed of horse might that be?

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

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I see it’s located between Northampton, where I was born and Cambridge.

Did you see the parade of seam engines and steam rollers and get to visit the beer garden too? I wish I had been there too, as we visited England just weeks ago!

Asher

 

[GarethKitchener]

Thanks, Asher.
It was a "heavy horses" display - they did tell us what each on was, but I can't remember now: I believe the horses there were Suffolk Punch, Shire, Clydesdale, or Percheron.
I only live about 10-15 minutes drive from where they hold this, so it's an annual event for me.
I've got loads of steam engine photos if you want to see them.
(I did post some here.)

 

[Asher Kelman]

Remind us of the steam engines.

Doug Kerr, our resident engineer knows such a lot about their workings and I am assayed by their power and how they made centers of life and industry across the planet!

Asher

 

[Will Thompson]

Thanks, Asher.
It was a "heavy horses" display - they did tell us what each on was, but I can't remember now: I believe the horses there were Suffolk Punch, Shire, Clydesdale, or Percheron.
I only live about 10-15 minutes drive from where they hold this, so it's an annual event for me.
I've got loads of steam engine photos if you want to see them.
(I did post some here.)

Please post them all one at a time!

 

[GarethKitchener]

 

[GarethKitchener]

 

[GarethKitchener]

 

[Asher Kelman]

Wonderful machines!

They seem of the same manufacture but purposed differently.

Did they have engines that are different and are were made locally to be used locally, as today we think of such machines as being made for transcontinental sale and export!

Asher

 

[Doug Kerr]

Keelling and Sir Gordon both look to have been made by Burrell; VL3465 (not sure of her name) seems to be from a different manufacturer.

Sir Gordon is relatively unique in that she has a crank-connected compound engine. Compound engines use the energy left in the steam after passing through the primary (high pressure) cylinder to drive one or more secondary (low pressure) cylinders (thus extracting more of the energy from the steam, which was hard-earned by burning fuel).

In many compound engines (including most of those used on locomotives) the high-pressure cylinder pistons and the low-pressure cylinder pistons drive the same crosshead, which then had a single connecting rod to the crank shaft (in a locomotive, the "crankshaft" is actually a driving wheel itself).

But in a crank-connected compound engine (such as we have here), the high-pressure cylinder piston and the low-pressure cylinder piston each drive the crankshaft with a separate connecting rod, the cranrkshaft journals for the two being at different phases. This produces a more uniform torque than the classical arrangement (especially when there is only one set of cylinders).

I do not know exactly what kind of engine Keeling has.

Best regards,

Doug

 

[Will Thompson]

Very cool, Now where do I get a table top version to fire up at home?

 

[Will Thompson]

Keelling and Sir Gordon both look to have been made by Burrell; VL3465 (not sure of her name) seems to be from a different manufacturer.

Sir Gordon is relatively unique in that she has a crank-connected compound engine. Compound engines use the energy left in the steam after passing through the primary (high pressure) cylinder to drive one or more secondary (low pressure) cylinders (thus extracting more of the energy from the steam, which was hard-earned by burning fuel).

In many compound engines (including most of those used on locomotives) the high-pressure cylinder pistons and the low-pressure cylinder pistons drive the same crosshead, which then had a single connecting rod to the crank shaft (in a locomotive, the "crankshaft" is actually a driving wheel itself).

But in a crank-connected compound engine (such as we have here), the high-pressure cylinder piston and the low-pressure cylinder piston each drive the crankshaft with a separate connecting rod, the cranrkshaft journals for the two being at different phases. This produces a more uniform torque than the classical arrangement (especially when there is only one set of cylinders).

I do not know exactly what kind of engine Keeling has.

Best regards,

Doug

No need to get cranky!