[modeleng] Re: City of Truro
- From: Allen Messer <al_messer@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: modeleng@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 05:28:13 -0700 (PDT)
Personally, I am always interested in steam
locomotives, no matter where they are located!
Al Messer
--- Roger Mason <roger.g3tdm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Alan asked for new topics - well this one isn't
> likely to start much
> of a discussion - but I thought you might like to
> know about this:
>
> The City of Truro locomotive has been
> transported by road from the
> National Railway Museum in York to Truro, in
> Cornwall. It has been
> put on display on a short length of track, right in
> the centre of Truro
> city. This is to commemorate the fact that one
> hundred years ago this
> loco was the first man-made vehicle to travel at
> over 100 m.p.h.
>
> As they were unloading it from the low-loader
> the other day, men in
> suits arrived and said: "This must stop. The
> surface on which you
> are placing this heavy item cannot support the
> weight." The area in
> question is a large flat pedestrian area, recently
> re-built, which is
> built over a river, which still flows underneath
> it. The amazing
> thing about this is that I cannot believe any
> organisation that has
> planned such a display as this involving National
> organisations etc.
> didn't check with the relevant people that the
> structure that was
> supposed to support the weight of the loco and the
> ancillary bits and
> pieces was strong enough. I gather that the final
> outcome is that the
> authorities have accepted that the event can go
> ahead, but the Chairman
> of the local Chamber of Commerce (who organised the
> event) has had to
> sign a document which says that he will pay for any
> damage caused by the
> weight of the exhibit.
>
> The media reckons that the total weight is in
> the region of 180
> tons, although the loco is only about 54 tons.
>
> I haven't been to see her yet, she is there for
> another week, so
> sometime this week I will get to view her. If I
> had a digital camera I
> would take some pictures and post them - but I
> haven't moved to this new
> technology yet!
>
> Anyone know why the loco was named after our
> county town (it might
> not have been the county town one hundred years ago,
> as Bodmin used to
> be the county town)?
>
> Thought this might be of interest to the list.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Roger Mason, in St. Agnes.
>
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