Hudswell 1682 departed GCRN to a private site for restoration today.
I think (know) he's content to remain anonymous. Doubtless it will become apparent who it is if anything ever happens with it. And no, it's not...
Just cutting the foundation ring off wouldn't give the throatplate much opportunity to move. It's held to the inner box via the stays and will be...
I find Robert Conquest's third law applies well to a great many heritage railway organisations (I've no insider knowledge of the A1 outfit)
You have to turn all coupled wheelsets to a very close diameter or bad things will happen with the wheels trying to turn at different RPM due to...
The problem clearance appears to be the wheel diameter - if the bottom of the throatplate has moved forwards for some reason, it will start to...
This blog post gives a hint of what's been done to the boiler at this overhaul. If they have had the foundation ring off and possibly also had...
Within this there are also different boiler designs - you can get boilers which are over/under barreled/fireboxed. Some locos have lots more...
I think that potentially the problem is - where is the money coming from? Putting together a slow burn group to start building a pot of funds is...
Warwickshire's new boiler is mostly of traditional riveted, construction, but not entirely. The boiler barrel is welded, and the inner firebox...
IIRC the railway of which I'm a part conducts postal votes for elections via a double envelope method. You return your actual voting slip...
I'm sure that the world of railway preservation can and if necessary will find a way to produce more of these ejectors if necessary. I do have...
Different technique entirely, the only common feature being that the material used is destroyed in the casting proccess. There are three fairly...
Beddgelert is on a 1 in 47 and the WHR run round there relatively routinely. I don't know if you're footplate crew anywhere, but 1 in 50, whilst...
The expensive bit of a boiler is the back end. If the firebox (inner and outer) of an existing Austerity can be made to fit, making a new barrel...
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