
Firing up for your steam trip
Lighting a Wallis & Steevens
The preparation for a steam day
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Unlatch smokebox door

Open smokebox door

Sweep tubes

Sweep tubes

Sweep round smokebox

Clean out soot from smoke box

Rake out firebox

Rake out firebox - internal view

Empty ashpan

Clean smokebox door

Re-fit smokebox door

Remove chimney cap

Fit spark arrester

Open boiler clacks

Open cylinder drains

Glass is full

Drain boiler

Drain to 1/2 glass

Split kindling

Check front damper is on first notch

Moisten oily rag with paraffin

Operate ignition key

Oily rag into firebox

Add kindling

Shut that door!

Little more kindling

A good wood fire

Add small coal

Then fire with normal size coal

Fire gets going

Fire (showing tubes)

Oil valvestem

Oil Motion links

Oil main bearings

Oil Big ends

Top-up steering oilers

Top-up footplate oilers

Oil wheel bearings

Polish up brass

Dip waist tanks

Coming up to pressure

Warm up cylinders with open drain cocks
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