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  1. Peter Wilde
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Duel brakes? Is that to showcase the fight between the steam loco on the front and the diesel on the back, as to which of them is really...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Mar 30, 2018 in forum: Steam Traction
  3. Peter Wilde
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    Big Diesel Little Diesel

    While not answering the original question, another part of the background to this is the thinking around at the time of the BR Modernisation Plan....
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Mar 18, 2018 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
  4. Peter Wilde
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    Modern traction, stuff like Sprinters, Pacers, Voyagers. In future will people want to preserve them

    Having a story to tell ... fine, but that makes these units primarily suitable as an exhibit at the NRM; or any other large museums that try to...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Feb 7, 2018 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
  5. Peter Wilde
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    10 most important / noteworthy UK steam designs .your views and why

    Wow! Yes! A prime mover that uses totally green (in every sense) renewable fuel; and can even replicate itself every year or two, without any...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Feb 5, 2018 in forum: Steam Traction
  6. Peter Wilde
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    Modern traction, stuff like Sprinters, Pacers, Voyagers. In future will people want to preserve them

    Yes, an interesting argument. On the modern stuff being too complicated, one difference between 20th century preservation and (say) mid 21st...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Feb 3, 2018 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
  7. Peter Wilde
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    10 most important / noteworthy UK steam designs .your views and why

    Hard to disagree with most of what you say! But maybe you are just a little too harsh in calling Leader Bulleid's "whim"? There was a perfectly...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Feb 3, 2018 in forum: Steam Traction
  8. Peter Wilde
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    10 most important / noteworthy UK steam designs .your views and why

    I wonder if the lists offered so far are taking too narrow a view of what is "noteworthy" and a "UK steam design". Arguably the Garratt...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Feb 2, 2018 in forum: Steam Traction
  9. Peter Wilde
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    How do your wives/girlfriends view your interest in Steam Railways ?

    Interesting thread. I am very lucky, my wife likes trains and shares some trips, though she's not into the steam railway technical detail. Take...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Jan 23, 2018 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  10. Peter Wilde
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    Modern traction, stuff like Sprinters, Pacers, Voyagers. In future will people want to preserve them

    Some useful debate here about the desirability to our public of offering modern traction on preserved lines. But leaving that on one side,...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Jan 9, 2018 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
  11. Peter Wilde
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Yes absolutely, the drawings are kept bang up to date at the NRM of Mordor.
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Dec 13, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  12. Peter Wilde
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    While this thread is interesting, maybe most of us are not thinking sufficiently far outside the box. So how about one of these? Could attract a...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Dec 12, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
  13. Peter Wilde
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    Isle of Wight Steam Railway - Ferry Problem

    Not an easy one. Some of the IoW economy is tourist-based and a significant number of visitors come because they like the special (and a little...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Dec 10, 2017 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Which Preserved Lines have Electric Car Charging Points??

    Fair point, but - that was then. We are led to believe that ownership of electric cars will soon go mainstream; and maybe once that happens,...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Dec 3, 2017 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Which Preserved Lines have Electric Car Charging Points??

    Good points. Still a bit difficult to see how this would work in practice. The present model is that fuel retailers provide just a few filling...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Nov 27, 2017 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Which Preserved Lines have Electric Car Charging Points??

    Interesting discussion. If the use of pure (as opposed to hybrid) electric vehicles becomes common, catering for them could become quite an issue...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Nov 26, 2017 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  17. Peter Wilde
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    45212 to Swanage: 5/10/17

    A bit of video from Horsley, yesterday morning. Had a last-minute scramble to get any view but the sound was magnificent. [MEDIA]
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Oct 6, 2017 in forum: What's Going On
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    The Remembrance Line- The campaign to save the Folkestone Harbour Branch

    I think Tom's point was more about the potential of a dummy third rail to create complacency in the general public - kids trespassing, etc -...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Sep 8, 2017 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Brighton Atlantic: 32424 Beachy Head

    Entirely agree. Can't wait to see Beachy Head working. An attractive design: a "missing link"; truly appropriate in terms of...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Sep 6, 2017 in forum: Steam Traction
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    That infortunate British loading gauge!!

    Regarding the suggestions above that British railway engineering innovations .." in the main, ended at about 1900. Churchward looked to France and...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Aug 14, 2017 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    The merits or otherwise of BR Mk I coaches, ex-Bluebell Motive Power

    I tend to agree. Used to rather despise Mk 1s, and still on the whole prefer well restored pre-BR vehicles (as seen on the Bluebell, IOWSR and...
    Post by: Peter Wilde, Jul 9, 2017 in forum: Heritage Rolling Stock
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