tower bridge and a steam bus
i've been getting a fair amount of visitors looking for steam / fuel cell bus pictures. so here's one i took last week of a steam bus going under Tower Bridge.
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i've been getting a fair amount of visitors looking for steam / fuel cell bus pictures. so here's one i took last week of a steam bus going under Tower Bridge.
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I hope, for the passengers sake, it was going OVER Tower Bridge rather than UNDER.
From a technical point of view the river water would extinghuish the fire that produces the steam.
Did you know that Tower bridge was originally operated by steam. You can still visit one of the boiler houses and steam engine on the south side of the bridge.
I'll shut up now
it went under the top dangly bit.
everyone knows that the fires on these steam busses are waterproofed to prevent them going out when they go through the river.
i was standing on the south side of the bridge when i took this photo. just goes to show.
Fuel cell busses such as that in the picture are not steam powered and do not have a fire like in a steam engine. They use hydrogen as a fuel, which produces steam as exhaust when it reacts with oxygen to generate electricity.
awwww. you've taken away the magic !