At the time, the murderous, genocidal Nazis had the record- so Gresley broke a locomotive to beat them. It was taken off the train well broken big...
It looks sensational Ivatt would have been proud. What a wonderful recreation. Now to make the long long journey
Looking forward to a Doncaster Green gala- what number i the boiler off again? Go on, you know it makes sense....
Any news- ruours of progress? NYMR visit one day? I'm really interested which locs the old boiler ran in sure its in a Yeadons I read one......
Had shed name York in 1968 be lovely if they could recreate the 3 of SNG Blue Bittern Green and Blue Peter Green all with York on the bufferbeams!!!
It's a long list of woes. The Voith transmission toloerances were 10fold tight. so a lot more failures, though sorted as NBL quietly built...
So d6332 engine is seperate from the abandoned project22. Someone would have to give me a free transmission to take d6332 any futther!¡ it's happy...
Hammer price was a boggling £20000!!!!!
A joyous update today is new boilers are being constructed for Ol-49 and Ol69 in Czech- anticipated return to work end of next year(though we all...
A couple were loaned to Manningham so KWVR might even be prototypical, wonder if any crept onto the Furness too?
My great grandad built its wheels. So they better look after 'em. Imagine my surprise finding his dad actually did drive the Stirling Single!
Though 89001 bogies are very similar if they need publicity a speed record is the way to go- doubt it quite has the power unless upgraded though.
There is a serious threat to this record from the steam powered class 60!!!! It will have about 2700hp and a record must be in the offing?
Again due to our tiny British loading gauge Mallards dray would have been way less than the Nazi monster!
Truro was a punchy little monster. I just wonder if the outside frames and rods reduced the drag coefficient somewhat?
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