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MellishRs letzte Aktivitäten

  1. MellishR antwortete auf das Thema Fire Risk.

    The combination of rampant vegetation and loads of vulnerable lineside equipment and cables is the crucial issue. Steam locos are one cause of fires, but there are plenty of other causes. One of my journeys a few years ago on the WCML was...

    15 Juli 2026 um 14:22

  2. MellishR gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Fire Risk.

    Very likely, as vegetation grows. I was in Gateshead recently, looking across the Tyne. On my right was the Tyne Bridge, with very clean stonework. Ahead was the ECML viaduct entering Newcastle from the north, on my left the High Level Bridge....

    15 Juli 2026 um 14:18

  3. MellishR gefällt johnofwessexs Beitrag in dem Thema Fire Risk.

    The point is that irrespective of the cause there is now a lot of hi-tech equipment and cabling hidden in the undergrowth, and given the current climate an increased likelihood that it will catch fire at times

    15 Juli 2026 um 14:17

  4. MellishR gefällt Big Als Beitrag in dem Thema Fire Risk.

    The railway was the focus as I understand it. And no steam locomotive in sight....

    15 Juli 2026 um 14:17

  5. MellishR gefällt mattspencers Beitrag in dem Thema LSL Private Train: 18-19/05/26; 10/07/26.

    [IMG] Return of the Badger by Matt Spencer, on Flickr

    15 Juli 2026 um 14:15

  6. MellishR antwortete auf das Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    That video does indeed show the exhaust thrown very high.

    15 Juli 2026 um 09:14

  7. MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Well, I suspect the answer is probably fairly obvious, even if a little uncomfortable: that over a period of many years, they haven't put sufficient money into loco overhauls to keep up with a rolling programme of maintaining a stable fleet size....

    15 Juli 2026 um 09:01

  8. MellishR gefällt rosss Beitrag in dem Thema GWR four-cylinder arrangement?.

    I have to ask Mr Hermod, how familiar are you with Britain and it's geography? At times you have stated that any locomotive with driving wheels greater than 5' is an error, and that designing locomotives to operate at more than 75mph is...

    15 Juli 2026 um 08:48

  9. MellishR antwortete auf das Thema LSL Private Train: 18-19/05/26; 10/07/26.

    I meant to pop out to see it somewhere around Harrow but forgot. Was no-one out with a camera?

    15 Juli 2026 um 08:43

  10. MellishR gefällt johnofwessexs Beitrag in dem Thema Fire Risk.

    Given modern equipment and fire risks in the hotter drier summers we are having I suggest that NR needs to do some major work with lineside vegetation and that has nothing to do with running steam

    15 Juli 2026 um 08:39

  11. MellishR antwortete auf das Thema Fire Risk.

    There is plenty of room for informed or uninformed speculation about how much worse heatwaves and droughts will get, and how quickly. Plenty of trustworthy sources make very clear that they certainly will get worse. How main line train operators...

    15 Juli 2026 um 08:38

  12. MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Fire Risk.

    I think having a fire risk rating for locos is just adding another layer of unwanted complexity to the problems of matching loco to duty. “Our planned loco 12 weeks ago when we put the request in was gauged as restriction 1, fire risk group 3....

    15 Juli 2026 um 08:10
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