"and I am sure this will divide the membership" Is there anything that hasn't?
It's a fair point, if Austerities were built later than 8Fs, why were they scrapped first? IIRC, the last engines in BR service were 8Fs and black...
Yes. But it's in the book I cited yesterday, which today I'm not near. The replacement of castings had a lot to do with that, ie if you did a...
I find it worryingly illustrative that loads of MoS 9' steel mineral wagons were sent to France after the war. In spite of their infrastructure...
From "The last steam locomotive engineer; R.A. Riddles, CBE" by col. H.C.B. Rogers OBE, the attached pic (sorry, on a phone so can't type...
I've read somewhere (so it must be true), that the king inside-out bogie turned out to be unecessary? I have a nagging feeling it may have been...
Italian bikes on the other hand swap parts with each other and italian cars with gay abandon especially electrics. As for modern vehicles, our...
Also, Riddles would have been involved to some extent in the 8F (even if just in general chit-chat). If you ask someone (not on here[1]) to draw a...
The things I would notice in that pic 1) the fictional livery on the prarie[1] 2) that generator van(?) has seen better days, and has a door open...
In this case, they all look to be in correct liveries for the coaches (the "two shades of maroon", look to be 1 later BR steam colouring of maroon...
That's a very odd headrest arrangement. There'd be plenty of stops for gin on the way
Do not do this yourself. Trusts are very fiddly things. In terms of law firms private client and inheritance specialists are likely to be the way...
Yes, it's amazing looking back how much the railway into the 80s was still a steam railway without the steam. It's interesting to me as a...
Nice to see some good news for the L&B
My dad recalls reading about that as a school boy and not putting 2 and 2 together that lots of diesels meant no steam
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