الأنشطة الأخيرة الخاصة بـ Johnb
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المشاركة في موضوع Jacobite 2026.
8151 is vacuum only and I don't think Mr Smith would want it knocked to bits on the WHL when its straight out of the box after overhaul.
8 جوان 2026 في 6:11 مساءاً -
أعجب Johnb بمشاركة torgormaig' في موضوع 76079.
Nice picture there John. I was working there over that weekend and was the afternoon guard when the loco worked back to Mallaig that day, having turned during the lunch layover at F ort William. Here is the train standing in Lochailort station...
8 جوان 2026 في 12:45 مساءاً
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المشاركة في موضوع 76079.
Still plenty of different locations up there but the ones I want to do but most involve long walks, perhaps I should have done those 20 years ago!
7 جوان 2026 في 6:53 مساءاً -
المشاركة في موضوع 76079.
I didn’t notice that and being a railway modeller too I usually look out for such details. While on the subject of accuracy both Galatea’s alternative identities are wrong, both Alberta and Sierra Leone were straight throatplate boilered engines...
7 جوان 2026 في 6:16 مساءاً -
أعجب Johnb بمشاركة torgormaig' في موضوع 76079.
Funny the details that some people notice and others don't. For me the give away that this isnt the real 76001 isnt the cab but the Southern lamp brackets on the smokebox door. I believe that this is because 76079 had its last overhaul down south...
7 جوان 2026 في 6:01 مساءاً -
المشاركة في موضوع 76079.
Long time no see you up there Henry. I still go up every October but it’s not the same, the Grog has gone to crown it all
7 جوان 2026 في 6:00 مساءاً -
المشاركة في موضوع 76079.
For modellers and the pedantic it isn’t quite right for 76001 that had the earlier type of cab with full footplate longer footplate, no fallplate and handrail up to the cab roof in front of the tender. I don’t know about the Class 4s but their...
7 جوان 2026 في 4:15 مساءاً