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  1. 35B antwortete auf das Thema Flying to South Africa with video gear.

    Not a rail trip, but went to SA in 2009. With friends, we took a chartered minibus to the Ponts Drift border crossing into Botswana where we went on safari, and then back to Joburg for a flight to Cape Town, where we stayed down near the...

    27 Juni 2026 um 08:25

  2. 35B gefällt Mark Thompsons Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Only on the strictest note of pedantry. Because at no time will either engine be operating independently of either the train, or each other. The train would be one permanent continuous entity. The fact that there is a permanently coupled...

    26 Juni 2026 um 20:02

  3. 35B gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Why would the ORR insist on that? The ORR isn’t in the business of setting prescriptive policies about how heritage railways operate. What it wants to see is that you have robust processes in place to identify and manage risks - that’s quite a...

    26 Juni 2026 um 20:01

  4. 35B gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I know it is different in scale, but the "no whistling" edict also applies at East Grinstead on the Bluebell. The safety mitigation is that the section of line is "one engine in steam" and therefore those most at risk of being hit by a moving...

    26 Juni 2026 um 20:01

  5. 35B gefällt meeees Beitrag in dem Thema FR & WHR & WHHR News.

    Yes in FR terms. Double Engine = Double Fairlie Single Engine = not a Double Fairlie Taliesin is both a single engine and a Fairlie.

    25 Juni 2026 um 11:39
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