Britannia smokebox

[peterdanastas]

Would any kind soul have photographs of inside the smoke boxes of Britannia or Oliver Cromwell to show the superheaters ,blowers ,exhaust tubes etc.
peter

[vulcanbomber]

I'm also interested in this, and any pics of the chimney...

[Deleted]

I was doing some searching for a Brit. smokebox and came across this.....I've posted the video before but just have a good read of the accompanying description....especially the bit about a "Fan in the smokebox" etc------------------http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e4f_1356708481

[Andrew C]

You could also have a look through the photos on the links at the bottom of johns Britannia builder web site. www.britanniabuilder.com/index.html. Specifically the ones of Oliver Cornwall at least one shot of the inside of the smokebox

Andrew

Andrew

[Deleted]

Here's a photo that I took of Oliver Cromwell's smokebox during the overhaul at Loughborough:



and another of the new front tubeplate:



and the old smokebox and chimney:



Regards, John

[Tony K]

I found this via Andrew C's link - Cromwell obviously under rebuild but may help.
Some things, like superheaters, do not scale down well do they.