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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Another consideration is the boiler is a Drummond example that were considered inferior to the original Adams design.
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 13 янв 2025 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Yes please!
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 12 янв 2025 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Please no more 0-6-0's! We have enough in Preservation, although to be fair the 6 coupled has been the 'go to' design for the humble freight...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 12 янв 2025 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    2025 Returnees and Withdrawals

    AE1973 'Dora' should be steaming soon at KWVR. Some nice pics of it complete inside Rileys old workshop on faceache.
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 9 янв 2025 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Bluebell Motive Power

    ..and its quite possible its memory failing me. I certainly remember a whole line of wheelsets between the coal dump and the containers alongside...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 9 янв 2024 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Bluebell Motive Power

    From Klaus Marx' book on the P tanks... Pioneer 11. 'After some very quick negotiations following an inspection by members of the Bluebell's...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 9 янв 2024 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Industrial Loco Updates

    I see on facebook a photo from Riley's showing a largely complete Avonside, I am assuming 1973 Dora. Does anyone know if its still belongs to the...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 10 ноя 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Bluebell Motive Power

    I stand corrected! Thank you. I take my hat off to the individual for sign writing that, knowing it will only be temporary. Let's hope Fenchurch...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 29 ноя 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    Theres an old saying " Don't shoot the messenger! "
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 22 ноя 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Bluebell Motive Power

    I was picking you up on the spelling. Its Billinton not Billington. ...and yes I made the same mistake too and was chastised for it. Agreed on...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 21 ноя 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Bluebell Motive Power

    The 600 prefix was added at Duplication from 1900 onwards, so well into the Billinton era and some locos not being renumbered until they received...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 21 ноя 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    I think you mean Yawnado. See Below....
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 21 ноя 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Keep up, your lagging behind! In this fast changing world the Adams has already been side-lined. The groups next focus will be 3217 to ensure the...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 6 сен 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Steam locos - what's significant, and what is at risk?

    Its not just restricted to Bus preservation either, I see this happening in most forms of mechanical heritage. The big problem being that as we...
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 22 авг 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Kent & East Sussex Railway

    OK Thanks will keep an eye on that but looking at the timetable again suggests its one loco in steam only anyway. Cheers.
    Сообщение от: Avonside1972, 8 июн 2022 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK