Running on dope, 3 miles to the gallon, but it's how quick you burnt that gallon that mattered, Well that's what I was told.
The Wisbech and Upwell locomotives exhausted straight into the tank, which was a large rectangular box of the same 'footprint' as the loco, and...
Yes, that's the one, old Dick Mares, He'd been quite a privateer in His earlier days, built His own grasstrack/scrambles/trials outfits, My Dad...
Should have seen this before, the very reason for running steam on maintenance trains was that the electricity was turned off.
Around 1968 Dad came home one night and said that He'd heard a 'Ghost Train' ( these sort of reports weren't that uncommon in those days). It...
That is stunning, it's almost a B12 as a tank engine
I've always known the later emblem as The Cat and Mangle
I remember those days, I've got it in mind that the proprieter of Enfield Timber was the owner of the loco's, but not the site. The late Kim...
Due to the divided drive and monobloc on the B17 the middle cylinder is set even higher than it is on the pacifics, thus making the problem even...
I'd say that you were spot on, and I'd further say that the, shall we say, disadvantages with the B17 came from a combination of divided drive...
That might well be what I was thinking of, it could well fit in with the 'school' element of my recollections, although the loco that I seem to...
I'm having to think back nigh on 50 years, but seem to remember a scheme, possibly involving a school, to relay part of the Leek and Manifold in...
Looks like they've salvaged the lamps.
Albert/Rood Ashton Hall being a case in point, only discovered during restoration, because OFICIALLY it never happened, in My view, the effective...
I'd say that continuous (recorded) history is what counts, No 27 is having new frames and cylinders (sorry, but that made it all sound too easy)...
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