The fitting shop floor at Steamport (Southport 27C) was made of the wooden centres from Mansell wheels. Ray.
If you are asking if I would financially support one the answer would be "no" as EMU's are not my thing. If, however, a group were to produce a...
Yes, sooner or later it will make its final journey to the scrapyard so it might as well be sooner. If Merseyrail had been able to offer the unit...
IMO they are wasting 10k of their, or rather other people's, money. Hasn't the recent 503 debacle taught them anything? Unless an EMU can be kept...
Hi Bryan, The area outside the shed and workshops was previously concreted up to rail level and there's a lot of concrete still to pour. It was...
ISTR something about them putting in a crossing to give coal deliveries better access to the coal stage .... but it was awhile ago and I may have...
I believe Peter Rampton was particularly fond of this carriage having done most of the restoration himself which is why it wasn't offered back to...
I'd love to read more about the carriage restoration work you are doing but can't seem to find anything on the L&B website. Any chance of a link...
The 2024 season on the IMR opened this morning with the 10.00 from Port Erin to Castletown headed by loco No.4 Loch which celebrates its 150...
Of course - that makes much more sense. I copied it from here http://locomotives.com.pl/Freight Steam Locomotives/Tr202.htm and should have...
Maybe I missed it but couldn't see anything related to "the S160 guys finding one of their boilers was a Liberation" as stated in your first post....
Thanks for the reply. Actually I was referring to the other Peckett, 2131 Oliver Veltom, which, at one time, was your regular 'home' loco. I'd...
What is the current situation with your own Barclay? ISTR there was a team actively working on the Peckett some years ago but the project seemed...
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