Yes the boiler and tanks are toast but an interesting museum piece . The bogies are an incomplete set of worn out bits.
The NRM is visited by 650,000 people every year which is more than double the passenger numbers of the biggest preserved railways. LT is much...
Welsh Pony has been repaired however it still needs it's annual boiler exam before it can enter service again. Blanche is stopped now pending a...
Well the people involved would have to write and submit a bid to the HRA for that to happen. Often though projects completed largely by...
It is running on Friday during the event. 9:40 off Porthmadog, then it takes over the normal Gelert Explorer service at Waunfawr for the rest of...
All of the NGG16s have run previously including most of the bits of 140. They have also had most of the South African beaten out of them over the...
If someone gave the railway a million quid and team to do it, then it would be cost effective. A lot of ex South African locos have suffered from...
It's a bit more of a handful on a slippery rail. Putting the basically the same power through 2 cylinders and 8 wheels is always going to be more...
It's rostered as the Dinas engine for most of next week as well doing the full line on Saturday and Tuesday. Usage still depends on qualified crew...
It doesn't need to be turned having been modified with reverse running in mind. It's been working to Beddgelert regularly out of Dinas so not just...
You're forgetting that you can get more people in less coaches with the compartment stock though. Quite important for running small engines up...
Unlucky for them. I wonder how long they lasted. I'm not sure what being designed for air brakes constituted on the WHR coaches. There doesn't...
The NWNGR was air braked however this equipment seems to be increasingly removed during the WHR era. The Festiniog was vacuum braked and of...
Given that none of those locos actually work at the moment it really does seem like an impossible dream. None of the FR NWNGR coaches are dual...
The plan is the Pickering Brake is only in the set from the end of April until the event in June. The new Ashbury van 2 will be used after that. I...
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