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  1. ghost liked 73108's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    You forgot the light underneath, Tom :) I can't remember if it was here or on a different well-known railway forum, but for some time the term 'crayonista' was currency for the type of correspondent who would advocate at length the reopening of...

    Sep 18, 2026 at 8:42 PM

  2. ghost liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    Right, so you want to build an Ilfracombe Goods - a dainty Victorian design which can trace its ancestry back to the 1860s - but with double the original boiler pressure and superheating now. While you are pimping your ride, have you thought of...

    Sep 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM

  3. ghost liked 73108's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    I've got several textbooks on guitar building. It doesn't mean I think I know enough to propose designs to the likes of Fender and Gibson ;)

    Sep 18, 2026 at 8:38 PM

  4. ghost liked Spamcan81's post in the thread Bridge that Gap: Great Central Railway News.

    It's lerss that eleven minutes long and very informative. Is your life so busy that you can't spare that short period of time to watch it?

    Sep 18, 2026 at 8:36 PM

  5. ghost replied to the thread Helston Railway.

    Splitters

    Sep 18, 2026 at 8:34 PM

  6. ghost liked 5944's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    You won't be pulling the carriages, you'll be rotating the earth beneath them.

    Sep 17, 2026 at 10:23 PM

  7. ghost liked Jon Lever's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    Have you spoken to Didcot about this?

    Sep 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM

  8. ghost liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    And if you take it up to the 2,500psi currently used in power stations you get the equivalent of five BR standard 9Fs in a 28 ton loco, and it could not only pull all the carriages on the railway up to Tenterden, but probably the carriage shed...

    Sep 17, 2026 at 10:22 PM

  9. ghost liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    They really are quite small engines. As built the TE was about 10,300lbf. Later rebuilds increased the boiler pressure to 16opsi and that takes the TE up to 12,660lbf. To put that in context, a Terrier is about around 7,500lbf. The Stirling O1,...

    Sep 17, 2026 at 10:19 PM

  10. ghost replied to the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    That makes it sound like the receivers are on the way!

    Sep 17, 2026 at 6:09 PM

  11. ghost replied to the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    That would be the obvious one I mentioned Colin....

    Sep 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM

  12. ghost liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I thought the railway was a registered museum, in which case surely there are questions around deaccession policy to consider?

    Sep 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM

  13. ghost replied to the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    Just two problems - the obvious one, and the fact that it is most definitely not for sale!

    Sep 17, 2026 at 2:05 PM

  14. ghost liked Steve's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    You said it.

    Sep 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM

  15. ghost liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    Well, apart from that idea being completely nuts and nothing to do with, you know, preservation ... What you suggest would end up being more expensive than a traditional restoration, because you'd have all the expense of a normal restoration,...

    Sep 17, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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