Realistically, all this is little to do with Riley's as such, but since we've started on frame cracking and Black Fives, let us continue. They...
A Swindon engine could pull two LNWR engines backwards? It didn't work out in practice when the new owners of the former LNWR lines in South Wales...
The GWR famously changed components when wear had brought them to the same tolerances which the other railways used for new construction. Had I...
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They do tend to take up a lot of space on the drive and are liable to generate adverse comments from the neighbours.
Unfortunately, you can't now tell this to Jack Beaman, who was the SVR senior driver way back in 1970 when he was also in charge of all SVR...
9 May 1964 was the day that Ian Allan and the WR ran its Great Western High Speed Railtour and the RCTS ran The East Midlander No. 7 tour. David...
Yes, it does, but there should be two shackle threads left unused. But this is sideways oscillation as ti effectively makes the two vehicles one,...
It was amazingly popular on the SVR. I remember its last day in service; there was a queue of drivers on the platform all wanting one last go on...
It seems to have been a short term misdemeanour by the spotting fraternity. Mostly they were known as Stanier Crabs or simply Crabs by enginemen,...
I doubt it. Its condition is 'delicate' and its getting restricted use on the SVR. They won't want to risk a failure on another railway.
I rather suspect that 8504 was assisting for at least one failed engine, especially as it's still carrying light engine lamps.
1/67 is leaving Earlestown eastwards
Which raises a point: the smokebox is bolted rigidly to the saddle and the boiler fitted to the rear of the smokebox while the firebox end is free...
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