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Tender.

(Photos added 1/8/2003)

Tender handbrake and FS door.JPG (79505 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

Fireman's side of tender front showing rear lookout window, cab side door in the open position, fire iron tunnel and handbrake. 

Tender scoop handle DS.JPG (78573 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

Driver's side of tender showing water scoop handle (non-working) and coal space door.

Tender Timken.jpg (79138 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

One of the tender wheel bearings and springs.

Engine_tender pipes.jpg (89899 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

Sequence of six photographs of the tender under side, starting with the dragbox, and tender drawbar pin.

Labelled tender brake shaft.jpg (97036 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

Labeled photo of the tender brake shaft.

Tender brake cyl.JPG (71598 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

The front axle, with rear of dragbox, steam brake cylinder, water drain pipe (from coal space), and brake rodding turnbuckles.

Tender crossbrace.JPG (90919 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

Cross bracing between chassis to support the tender tank. The lagged pipe (white) is the steam heating pipe to the tender buffer beam.

Tender brake crossbeam.JPG (90919 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

The centre axle, with brake hanger and brake shoe, brake cross beam and pull rods.

Tender underframe.JPG (100416 bytes) Photo added 1st July 2003.

The rear axle, with one of the frame spacers behind.

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Tender dragbeam.jpg (82671 bytes) Photo added 14th May 2003.

Labeled photo of the tender dragbox. 

 

Tender front labeled.jpg (74848 bytes) Photo added 14th May 2003.

Labeled photo of the tender front. 

 

Tender view labeled.jpg (87345 bytes)

Photo added 6th May 2003

Labeled view of tender coal space. 

 

Tender intermediate buffer fitting.jpg (62958 bytes) Photo added 1/8/2003

Fitting one of the tender intermediate buffers. The rectangular slot to the right of the buffer is the location for the drawbar.

Tender brakeshaft.jpg (70001 bytes) Photo added 1/8/2003

Tender brake shaft after manufacture.

Tender prep.jpg (76815 bytes) Hornblock preparation. Photo taken several months prior to the tender assembly.
Tenderlift5.jpg (119436 bytes)

Raising the tender frames, using two cranes, to enable fitting of the tender axle boxes.

Tenderlift12.jpg (102777 bytes)

Positioning the leading tender axle boxes into the hornguides.

Tenderlift18.jpg (96971 bytes)

Axlebox and spring in place awaiting fitting of spring keeps and horn keep. 

Tender Complete.jpg (108403 bytes)

Tender tank fitted to re-wheeled chassis.

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