On 20-May-22 6:14, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2022 01:48:06 +0100
> Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>
>> On 19/05/2022 22:14, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>
>>> The biggest pennies I ever saw were ones that had been placed on a rail
>>> for one of the coal trains to go over it.
>>> They came out pretty big - but quite thin.
>>
>> Gawd did you do that too?
>
> Didn't everybody ? But it was Deltics pulling passenger trains that
> squished our pennies.
>

Coal trains for us. Very slow moving, since they were pulling out of
the pit yard & hauling a full load up the gradient.
Steam engines, but I haven't a clue what type.

--
Sam Plusnet

In article <O2ShK.235237$sMg.58210@fx06.ams1>, Sam Plusnet
<not@home.com> on Fri, 20 May 2022 at 20:34:06 awoke Nicholas from his
slumbers and wrote
>On 20-May-22 6:14, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Fri, 20 May 2022 01:48:06 +0100
>> Tone <tone@email.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 19/05/2022 22:14, Sam Plusnet wrote:
>>>>>
>>>> The biggest pennies I ever saw were ones that had been placed on a rail
>>>> for one of the coal trains to go over it.
>>>> They came out pretty big - but quite thin.
>>>
>>> Gawd did you do that too?
>>
>> Didn't everybody ? But it was Deltics pulling passenger trains that
>> squished our pennies.
>>
>
>Coal trains for us. Very slow moving, since they were pulling out of
>the pit yard & hauling a full load up the gradient.
>Steam engines, but I haven't a clue what type.
>
Probably 0-4-0 saddle tank engines, wartime austerity model tank
engines. The NCB had large numbers of them for shunting round yards,
between yards and to British Railways foe delivery around the nation and
for export. The NCB inherited a quite extensive network of lines at
nationalisation.

Many of them war surplus disposed of by the Royal Engineers. One of
these engines was named WHR after my grandfather. They were both
nicknamed, or so I am told, 'Puffing Billy', possibly because above
ground my grandfather always had a fag in his mouth, at least when he
was above ground. I never road on WHR, my brother and I were once
allowed a trip on the footplate of another called 'Revenge'.
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