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clinker replied to the thread Locos that didn't even qualify as a 'might have been', but really deserved preservation.
The B17's I think it was in Footballer guise used the small B12 type 'Watercart tender.
May 29, 2020 at 10:04 PM -
clinker replied to the thread Locos that didn't even qualify as a 'might have been', but really deserved preservation.
So this was a railway works without a rail connection?
May 29, 2020 at 10:04 AM -
clinker liked Johnb's post in the thread B12 8572.
Wherever it goes, nothing looks better than when it's coupled to a proper set of LNER teak coaches [ATTACH]
May 28, 2020 at 2:23 PM
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clinker liked 8126's post in the thread Locos that didn't even qualify as a 'might have been', but really deserved preservation.
To add to the chorus, the GER B74 (LNER Y4) of 1913 is another, with a totally conventional outside Walschaerts layout. Admittedly, a class that was not large in number, size or geographical distribution...
May 26, 2020 at 10:22 AM -
clinker replied to the thread Locos that didn't even qualify as a 'might have been', but really deserved preservation.
But hasn't EVERYTHING built by the GWR been scrapped and reconstructed as something else? Isn't there a group somewhere reconstructing 'The Great Bear' out of a 14xx on account of them having the same valve wheel for the injector?
May 25, 2020 at 9:56 AM -
clinker replied to the thread Locomotives that NEARLY made it.
I'm not going to argue with that.
May 24, 2020 -
clinker liked johnofwessex's post in the thread Locomotives that NEARLY made it.
Aesthetically the Gresley/Thompson B12 is sublime.
May 24, 2020 -
clinker replied to the thread Locomotives that NEARLY made it.
That is basically what evolution is about, but unlike Darwinism it had something to start with. Personally I find the Gresley/Thompson rebuilds of the B12 better proportioned that the Gresley/Thompson Clauds, but the opposite for the original...
May 24, 2020
