Talk:GWR 2800 Class 2807

Restoration

GWR 2800 Class No. 2807 sure is on loan to The Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway, Llangollen Railway, West Somerset Railway, Great Central Railway, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, and can you please make No. 2807 visit Scotland? It hasn't been to Scotland. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.244.1 (talk) 17:07, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

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Oldest survivor assertion

Is the assertion in the article text that 2807 is "the oldest survivor of G.J. Churchward's standard locomotives" actually correct? Does 'City of Truro' (built 1903) not count as a standard Churchward loco? If not, could you clarify what is meant by 'standard'? Thanks Andywebby (talk) 07:57, 3 April 2012 (UTC)

City of Truro had a Churchward Standard No. 4 boiler, and driving wheels of 6'8+1⁄2" diameter (a Churchward standard size) but none of the other major components were to Churchward standards. For example, it had 3'8" bogie wheels, inside cylinders, a 26" piston stroke and double plate frames, whereas Churchward favoured 3'2" bogie wheels, outside cylinders, a 30" piston stroke and inside composite frames (plate frames to the rear of the cylinders, bar frames forward of that point). Compare the dimensions of GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro with those of the GWR 3800 Class, another GWR 4-4-0 of that period which used the same boiler (Standard No. 4) and driving wheel (6'8+1⁄2"), but which also had the full range of standard components. --Redrose64 (talk) 11:39, 3 April 2012 (UTC)