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Midland Railway steam engines 700 Class
Version 2.0 of June 2015
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These engines were built between 1869 and 1874 and were known as Kirtley standard goods engines.
They were rebuilt with Jonsons boiler in 1891 and some were olso fitted with automatic brake equipment.
These engines been a longed live, last unit as BR No. 58110 it was not withdrawn until Novembre 1951.
A large number of distrit allocation has this engine, olso Leeds and Skipton, for exemple in 1914:

Leeds:	2601, 2602, 2633, 2335, 2682, 2689, 2691, 2720, 2814-2816, 2830, 2831, 2834-2841, 2851, 2857, 2866.

Skipton:2598, 2651, 2695.


Curiosity: in 1906 some engines were sold to italian Ferrovie dello Stato and they grouped them
in 380 class. Italian engineers nicknamed them "inglesine" (the small English).
It's incredible but in 1929 6 engines were still in Bari locomotives depot.
For the Midland Railway Society, for those old engines, Midland Railway received from Ferrovie
dello Stato (FS) the construction drawings of the new 0-10-0 470 class engines.
Midland needed a powerful banking engine for Lickey Incline, the machine was built with
0-10-0  wheels configuration and it was numered 2290.


LMS Power classification: 1F
Configuration: 0-6-0 (030 - Cn2)
Boiler: at 140 psi , saturated steam
Tractive effort: 13050lb
Max speed: not indicated
Cylinders: 2 inside
Diameter x stroke: 17x24in (432mm x 610mm)
Diameter of driving wheels: 5ft 2in (1.57m)
Construction period: 1870-74



Pack content:

Steam Engine IT F.S. 3801 and 3805 and N°2695 setting on 1906 to 1925
Steam Engine UK M.R. N°2598, N°2651 and N°2695 setting on 1904 to 1923 

This pack contains the two versions of the steam engine with and without the front
green ligth. The engine with green light have an “m” in the name.
For ex.
FS 3801 (1885-1905) engine with white lights only
FS 3801m (1885-1905) engine with white and green lights
FS 3805 (1885-1905) engine with white lights 
FS 3805m (1885-1905) engine with white and green lights
See note about light switch.



Installation:
1. Unzip all in main Train Simulator folder, checking if Winzip has checked
"Use folder    names" box.
2. Use the editor to make a consist.



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MUST give credit to the authors of this work, it can not be sold, and the author of
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Model and Textures: Renzo Grassi, rgrassi@df.unipi.it
ENG file: Massimo Bruni , massimo.bruni76@gmail.com


