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Breva vond Matt78's post leuk in het topic GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
Repairing carriages on a contract basis is expensive. We have spent a six figure sum on 2 MK1’s which were both operating prior to repairs. In both cases we could have done even more work to them. Many MK1’s are coming to the end of their...
24 aug 2026 om 08:40 -
Breva reageerde op het topic Fakeography.
Remember Kenneth Williams in Hancock's Half Hour? He was an outraged passport photographer: Snaps? SNAPS ???? I don't take snaps. I paint, with light... :)
23 aug 2026 om 16:56 -
Breva vond mikehartuk's post leuk in het topic Rother Valley Railway.
No that a way down the list. Westerham Branch to reinstate next. Only two level crossings needed. Mike
23 aug 2026 om 16:26 -
Breva reageerde op het topic Barnstaple and Yeo Valley Railway Trust - B&YVRT.
I posted another blog update today. It's here: https://yeovalleylines.blogspot.com/2026/08/equipment-purchases.html Hope you like it. There will be more news after the open meeting in Barnstaple on September 26th. Any interested party can...
22 aug 2026 om 21:32 -
Breva reageerde op het topic Fakeography.
Thanks - the original print said a 2800, but from many other prints by the same author I know that he made mistakes in his later years.
22 aug 2026 om 06:21 -
Breva heeft een bijlage toegevoegd aan het topic Fakeography.
Here is the B&W picture: [ATTACH] AI mistook the steam cloud for sky, and made the train enter a cutting, whereas there was plenty more cutting behind it, obscured by steam. It's the cutting between Springfield Lane and Broadway station. The...
21 aug 2026 om 18:49
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Breva reageerde op het topic Harz Narrow Gauge - HSB.
Hmm, who translated the ' double crossing soft spot ' I wonder? Do they mean a double slip, perchance?
21 aug 2026 om 16:36 -
Breva heeft een bijlage toegevoegd aan het topic Fakeography.
Colourisation, with AI, of a 1950s photograph of a train about to pass through Broadway from the North. What did AI get wrong? [ATTACH]
21 aug 2026 om 14:41
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Breva reageerde op het topic GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
They are longer, iirc 700ft instead of 400ft. The original platforms served the 'Coffeepot', a rail motor and a trailer. Our instructions were to build platforms long enough for 10 coaches And the toilets you'd need with that volume of people......
21 aug 2026 om 14:32 -
Breva reageerde op het topic GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
Very slightly shifted: - the main building is longer, due to extra toilets - the footbridge was installed 2ft too long, leading to an incorrect position on P1 - the P2 building is longer by one truss . The approach road to the horse dock was...
21 aug 2026 om 06:00 -
Breva heeft een bijlage toegevoegd aan het topic GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
This was the station site two years later, in 2011. On the left is the site of the former waiting room for trains to Honeybourne. [ATTACH] The blog @jnc quotes was started by Bill Britton, the chap in orange with the blue hat. As things got...
20 aug 2026 om 21:36
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Breva vond jnc's post leuk in het topic GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
For those who are not aficionados of Jo's 'GWSR Heritage' blog, there is a new post, Canopy lift completed, richly illustrated with copious images of the whole process (along with short bits on some siding relaying, and an initial investigation...
20 aug 2026 om 21:11 -
Breva vond mikehartuk's post leuk in het topic Rother Valley Railway.
Rother Valley Railway locomotive 'Charwelton' recently moved to the Avon Valley Railway in preparation for testing and commissioning prior to its return to service at K&ESR. Its rebuild has included a new 180psi boiler, new cylinders & tyres...
19 aug 2026 om 18:22
