Reference the whining crapola about it being hot enough on the footplate of a Brit steam loco to burn the hair off your arms, purrr-leeeezzzze! Any bits hot enough to burn a True Brit's arm ( say 900 deg F, dull cherry red ) would have drawn the retort;
"Don't bloody well touch it then, you thick bugger!" [Linked Image]

Rule Brittania! 126mph, 3 July 1938, steam passenger locomotive and carriages: Sir Nigel Gresley's "Mallard".

( Admitted, it nearly went through Crewe Station sideways, but you can't have everything! )

Alan

Wood work but can't!