Steam history, anyone...?

Triplex

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I'm not familiar with the winter story...but steam locomotives are very, very vulnerable to the cold. Most excursion engines are not run in the cold as it is a nightmare with water lines breaking and having to run steam heat all over the place...
Less so than diesels, apparently. The last working steam in Britain was in Jan '82, IIRC. A coal mine had to use steam because it was too cold for the diesels to run.
 
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