No. 18

Short of anything to blip, I had a wander over to the station this afternoon to see what was running.  I was just in time to see a train pull in hauled by No. 18, an ex-National Coal Board engine that worked in Fife in Scotland.  I'm sure you will have noticed that it is fitted with a Giesl Ejector instead of the normal chimney, which was claimed (although with differing opinions as to how effective they were) to increase efficiency and reduce coal consumption.  They were not widely used in the UK although the NCB did fit them to around 50 of their engines.