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Hi, regarding Talk:L&YR Class 31#Boiler diameter - I've been doing some research. In Great Britain, boilers of 5 ft 6 in diameter first appeared on the Great Northern Railway (GNR) in 1902, on the 251 class 4-4-2. Boilers of this size were used on some other GNR classes from 1913, such as the Class H3 2-6-0 and the 2-8-0s of classes O1 and O2. Other railways to use this size before 1923 included the North Eastern Railway (NER) (1903 on - classes P2, P3, R1, S2, S3, T2, T3, V, V/09, Y, Z, Z1); the London and South Western Railway (1905 on - 4-6-0s of classes F13, E14 and H15); the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (1905 on - 4-4-2s of classes H1 and H2); the North British Railway (1906 on - 4-4-2s of classes H & I); the Hull & Barnsley Railway (1907 - class A 0-8-0); the Great Central Railway (1912 on - classes 1, 1A, 8M, 8N, 9P, 9Q); and the Glasgow and South Western Railway (1922 - the 540 class 4-6-4T). Larger sizes were also found - the Lancashire & Yorkshire, as mentioned, used the 5 ft 8+1⁄4 boiler on several classes from 1908; the Caledonian used a 5 ft 9 in boiler on the 956 class 4-6-0 in 1921; and a 6 ft 0 in boiler was used by the GNR on the H4 class 2-6-0 of 1920, and by the NER on their 4-6-2 in 1922. All of the preceding had cylindrical barrels; the Great Western Railway preferred tapered barrels from about 1902, and of these, the Standard No. 1 (introduced 1903, used on classes like 28xx, Saint, Star) and Standard No. 4 (introduced 1902, used on classes like 26xx, 3150, 42xx, 43xx, City, County 4-4-0) both had a barrel tapering down from 5 ft 6 in at the firebox end. The GWR's Standard No. 7 boiler (introduced 1922, used only on the 47xx class) had a barrel tapering down from 6 ft 0 in at the firebox end. I've ignored a few experimental locos and one-offs. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 19:15, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for the info. A parallel boiler always looks bigger than a taper boiler and, I assume, is much heavier when filled with water. Biscuittin ( talk) 21:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, if they are the same diameter at firebox end, the smaller diameter at the smokebox end implies a smaller volume in what is essentially a truncated cone, as compared to a cylinder. I forgot the GNR A1 class - these were biggest of all the pre-grouping boilers, 6 ft 5 in diameter at the firebox end, tapering down to 5 ft 9 in at the smokebox. They weren't the longest though, because Gresley, like Churchward (and Bulleid later on), appreciated that pure length is much less important than good circulation around the firebox. -- Redrose64 ( talk) 22:39, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Yes, long boilers are another story. The longest I can think of (for a British loco) is the LNER Class A2. Biscuittin ( talk) 23:13, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

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Thank you. I have invited most of the editors who contributed to the 2013 and 2011 discussions, see Talk:Magneto, but I left out the IP only ones and two who appear to have retired. I don't think I am canvassing because I have no idea what these people will say - I just want to get as many opinions as possible. You can see a list of the people I invited at Special:Contributions/Biscuittin. Biscuittin ( talk) 23:36, 29 March 2015 (UTC)

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