The Nord 4-6-0 SNCF 240D (we used to have one, it was located at the Nene Valley Railway) was a Du Bousquet engine and certainly not a Chapelon,...
The original Pacifics were costed at a few hundred pounds each at the time. They were complicated largely due to French drawing office practice....
The French started experimenting with railway electrification in the early years of the twentieth century. At First came the phase of addressing...
You need to add the 90 GELSA locomotives built for Brazil. So I think that there were 548 but I could be wrong. He produced a range of designs of...
The 141P class numbered 318 engines and were produced by seven builders. The 4-240A and 5-240P numbered 37 engines in total. So far as Pacifics...
A simple posting along the lines of "I passed this on in good faith from etc. etc. -----" might be in order. This, shall we call it malicious...
I suspect that we will never see any accountability on the part of those making what were fictitious allegations w.r.t. this matter.
Gresley and Chapelon were very different people. Gresley was born in 1876, attended Marlborough College, served an apprenticeship at Crewe and...
However Chapelon was a bit of an outlier - his relationship with some of the railway hierarchy wasn't exactly smooth. Prove people wrong and they...
It is difficult enough to obtain car parts in this allegedly post covid world. And the quality of what you do manage to source is open to...
Inadequate exhaust systems remain a problem on locomotives and people still point the finger at the boiler as being the problem. SSC figures can...
The two J15s which went to Neasden to be sub-shedded at Aylesbury were transferred in 1957 from Bury St. Edmunds and as the Y14/J15 first appeared...
Considering all that has gone on since the Autumn of 2019 and the difficulties created during that period Trust has done pretty well in spite of...
If you are going to take on the challenge of building the next locomotive in a class why simply build a copy of what went before? If the...
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