MellishR's Recent Activity
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MellishR liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Is an Austin Princess a Texan version of M Markle ?? :-)
Aug 27, 2026 at 9:38 PM -
MellishR liked sunstream's post in the thread Oil Firing.
Can we just get back to oil firing in relation to railway locomotives please? There is a separate thread for Global Warming and Climate Change.
Aug 27, 2026 at 9:36 PM -
MellishR replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.
Thank you.
Aug 26, 2026 at 5:37 PM -
MellishR liked jnc's post in the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
It would not be the highest RoI, for the capital sunk into the shed (as you point out, it would be an expensive asset standing empty for much of the year), but maximizing RoI is not what heritage lines are about. I think the right way to look at...
Aug 26, 2026 at 5:26 PM -
MellishR replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.
When railways are first built, as far as possible the formation is planned to use the material from the cuttings to form the embankments. Where will the material for the new embankment come from?
Aug 26, 2026 at 5:15 PM -
MellishR liked Petra Wilde's post in the thread GWR four-cylinder arrangement?.
Also - with apology for late reply to this interesting thread - maybe the human factor is an mportant reason for a substantial loss of fuel economy, in engines so large that their firing rates call for for a mechanical stoker? An advantage of...
Aug 26, 2026 at 5:01 PM -
MellishR replied to the thread Oil Firing.
Interesting features are that it is a 3-cylinder loco and that the buffers at the front are hinged up, away from the cow-catcher.
Aug 26, 2026 at 9:25 AM -
MellishR liked Sheffield's post in the thread Oil Firing.
Unfortunately I do not think we have fifty years left while we wait for fossil fuel less planes. Climate change is upon us, and it is too late. I envisage that at sometime in the future the few survivors will sit, of an evening, around their...
Aug 26, 2026 at 9:23 AM -
MellishR liked torgormaig's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.
This one here on the Taieri Gorge tourist line near Dunedin doesn't look like it will be replaced any time soon (taken last year).[ATTACH] Gisborne Airport may be the only runway/railway level crossing left but I remember leaving Peshawar to go...
Aug 24, 2026 at 5:39 PM
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MellishR liked mikehartuk's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.
Of course. Intial Westerham Branch reinstatement planning has two M25 crossings. The crossing have also been identified as requiring large areas of yellow box markings to keep the crossings clear of cars for when the road swaps over to its...
Aug 24, 2026 at 5:38 PM -
MellishR liked Steve's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.
Not the first time it's been suggested. When the M1 came to Leeds the highways authority didn't want to build a bridge over the Middleton Railway due to the cost and asked what the alternatives were. The then chairman of Middleton (Fred Youell)...
Aug 24, 2026 at 5:37 PM -
MellishR liked clinker's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.
Yes, but one level crossing is on the M25.
Aug 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM -
MellishR liked jnc's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
In other words, by significantly expanding paid staff, the NYMR may well have already run itself into a financial dead end from which there is no exit? (If so, I am very unhappy to point it out - but if this is the situation, sticking one's head...
Aug 24, 2026 at 5:29 PM -
MellishR liked 35B's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Indeed it is a re-run of that debate. But my point is not to reopen Whitby good/bad, but to highlight that for 17 miles of infrastructure with associated fixed costs, driving the maximum cash inflow is key. And with very limited capacity to...
Aug 24, 2026 at 5:27 PM -
MellishR liked Kje7812's post in the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
Maybe, but that assumes that you shunt the sets into the shed every day. Even at Kidderminster, that rarely happens. Two of the four sets that will be used tomorrow are in the station (Platform 1 and 2 Engine Line), the other two are at Bewdley...
Aug 24, 2026 at 5:24 PM
