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LMS2968 liked kieranhardy's post in the thread Severn Valley Winter Gala 4th & 5th January 2025.
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Jan 13, 2025 at 6:50 AM
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LMS2968 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Current and Proposed New-Builds.
Just imagine ... [MEDIA] Give me that over a Gresley P2 any day! Tom
Jan 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM -
LMS2968 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Current and Proposed New-Builds.
Plenty of locos are not doing what they were originally premised to do: the replica "Locomotion" is hauling thousands of passengers a year along a demonstration line at Beamish, it isn't hauling 80 tons of coal in chaldrons down to a wharf on the...
Jan 10, 2025 at 3:47 PM -
LMS2968 liked Bikermike's post in the thread Current and Proposed New-Builds.
I just want to see the look on rail acceptance bloke's face when the proposal for a mainline Crampton is put to him...
Jan 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM -
LMS2968 replied to the thread Current and Proposed New-Builds.
I don't think the idea is to put twelve MkIs behind it and aim it at Shap. They were used in this country: the LNWR was only one of the railways which invested. But how many of the earliest types which have been newly built are capable of working...
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LMS2968 liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Current and Proposed New-Builds.
Why build a replica “Locomotion” or “Steam Elephant”? Cramptons were a significant design school - more widely used on the continent than the UK, but still a significant design strand. So there is a valid industrial archaeology reason for...
Jan 9, 2025
