Adriatic posted:Excellent question actually
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Agree with Adriatic, excellent question - learned a lot of interesting info on this thread. An awful lot of post war steam tenders had a "scoop" on them (probably more to allow the sounds from the primative whistle in the tender to be heard than for any prototypical reason!!!).
Always remember - there is no such thing as a stupid question.
Now, stupid answers on the other hand...