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Title:
Visit to Railway Premises: Ravenglass
Object name(s):
letter
Brief description:
Letter(2 pages- ref RIM 19/2/08) from F.J. West, Railway Employment Inspector for the Department of Transport to the R&ER . Letter regarding a visit to the railway on 6.7.1982 by Mr West and his discussion with Ian Smith about' secondary air injection to the fireboxes of the steam locomotives'. He says he has been unablle to find anything in his books and journals that might help. Letter also discusses;provison of a baffle plate, hollow firehole door, questions and answers from LMS Railway booklet and Handbook for railway Steam Locomotive Enginemen and Woodworking Machines Regulations.
Collection:
Ravenglass Railway Museum
Acquisition date:
2.6.2020
Associated organisation:
RER
Associated person:
West, F.J.
Condition:
good
Object name:
letter
Object number:
RVNRC 704 .1769
Object production date:
30.7.1982
Date - period:
1980s

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/11cda0b0-9d33-3b42-ae1f-1e8f8d56360b

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/11cda0b0-9d33-3b42-ae1f-1e8f8d56360b, Ravenglass Railway Museum, CC BY-NC

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