Talk:Cutoff (steam engine)

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[edit] Terminology for cutoff

Moonraker88, I am sorry but you definitely have got this the wrong way round in your mind, cutoff is the percentage of the stroke at which the cutoff point occurs, and NOT the amount of the stroke left after cutoff.

I want to add some references later when I have them properly organised. Try:

  • Locomotive Management, Jas T Hodgson & Chas S Lake, Tothill Press, 1954
  • Locomotive Valve Gears, JH Yoder & GB Wharen, TEE publishing, a 1993 reprint of the 1921 2nd edition
  • Walschaerts Valve Gear, Henry Greenly & Ernest Steel, Percival Marshal
  • The Efficient Use of Steam, Lyle?
  • Heat Engines, D A Low

Bill F 10:36, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Bill: My terminology was clumsy and misleading. You are completely correct. Moonraker88 11:16, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reverser

To my mind the reverser, as one of the means of altering cut-off, among other things, belongs in a separate article, linked from here and from Steam locomotive nomenclature

Bill F 11:01, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

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