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  1. Chris86 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    For an experiment under controlled conditions, nothing to stop you temporarily disabling the tender brakes for the duration of the swap. The crews were hand-picked and could be briefed for the reduced braking performance light engine; and with a...

    Sep 4, 2026 at 10:38 PM

  2. Chris86 liked Spamcan81's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I stand to be corrected but I don’t think it’s as simple as just connecting a tender from loco type A to loco type B, especially if they are from different railways.

    Sep 4, 2026 at 5:58 AM

  3. Chris86 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    WC with a stanier tender should be doable I'd have thought......

    Sep 3, 2026 at 6:00 PM

  4. Chris86 replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Sea-Spaceship?

    Sep 2, 2026 at 8:25 PM

  5. Chris86 liked LMS2968's post in the thread SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.

    2004 was the year the main line return plans fell apart. The awarding body, RESCO, lost all the existing paperwork so there were no grandfather rights left over from the 1996-98 running. We would basically have started again with fresh surveys...

    Sep 2, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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