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Chris86 liked lil Bear's post in the thread Churnet Valley Railway General Discussion.

Loco crew are all fine if shook up. They know they’ve got support as/when needed. ORR/RAIB informed, it’s a case of letting the processes flow accordingly. Foxfield have not only opened their offer of travel to our customers, but assisted in...

Chris86 liked Steve's post in the thread Churnet Valley Railway General Discussion.

Without speculating in any way, from the photgraphs,the leading (rear) tender bogie has derailed whilst the front bogie has remained on the track. The rear bogie has seemingly come away from its pivot. All eight loco driving wheels have also...

Chris86 liked Paul Grant's post in the thread Churnet Valley Railway General Discussion.

My heart hurts for the Churnet Valley. These sort of incidents can be broadcasted within minutes of what happened. No time for the heat to come out of the sting of the incident before it appears online.

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Kirklees Light Railway 20th Anniversary

Hello, The Kirklees Light Railway are having an event next week celebrating 20 years of operation under their current ownership. Alongside the 15inch gauge trains there will be multiple visitors running on the 7 1/4 railway, portable railways...

Forum: Galas and Events

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Kirklees Light Railway 20th Celebration

[ATTACH] Hello, The Kirklees Light Railway are having an event next week celebrating 20 years of operation under their current ownership. Alongside the 15inch gauge trains there will be multiple visitors running on the 7 1/4 railway, portable...

Forum: Miniature Railways

Chris86 liked W.Williams's post in the thread P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

Helpful. Presuming FEA is stressing, and there will be a fluids analysis to help with valve events... If so, timing the valves for optimum flow through the ports, probably the first time anyone has ever done that for steam. That alone will...

Chris86 liked flying scotsman123's post in the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.

There are multiple "hard engineering" solutions in the cutting north of Toddington on both sides now; certainly on the up side it's quite clearly been a case of failure, retaining wall, failure on the next bit, retaining wall on the next bit etc...

Chris86 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Oswestry Update.

You can't preserve everything though ... I think on museum / curatorial grounds, there is an argument that says a Pacer should be preserved as an example of a particular strand of rolling stock development - you can see them as the spiritual...