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Pendon Museum

The only post I can find mentioning Pendon is in a thread from 2009 https://www.national-preservation.com/posts/293588/ so I'm starting a new one. Pendon is not only, or even mainly, a model railway. It's model of a stretch of the Vale of White...

Forum: Model Railways

MellishR replied to the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.

Those are all valid considerations, but my question was a specific response to which I took, perhaps mistakenly, to refer to the economics of operating Canadian Pacific on the Mid-Hants.

MellishR replied to the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.

Would a Bulleid on the Mid-Hants ever be worked hard?

MellishR liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.

Although I get the point that a Merchant Navy is a very large loco for operating 5 coach trains, it remains the case that the cheapest loco to operate is the one you have available right now. In other words - 35005 may burn a lot of coal, but the...

MellishR liked ghost's post in the thread 82045 The way ahead?.

No credit, but there's always blame to be shared out... :D

MellishR liked KHARDS's post in the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.

Thanks Tom. That was exactly the point I was making. Or trying to make. I knew a loco owner who did most of the overhaul himself, but wasn't a driver and almost lost interest when it worked. Some people are happy sleeping in a support coach...

MellishR liked Jamessquared's post in the thread 35025 Brocklebank Line.

I think the point being made isn't necessarily about age per se. Rather, in a group like that, there will inevitably be some people who are primarily interested in the restoration / mechanical side, and some primarily in the operational side; and...

MellishR replied to the thread Current and Proposed New-Builds.

HS1? :D

MellishR liked Jamessquared's post in the thread 82045 The way ahead?.

Maunsell had a design philosophy, right back in SE&CR days, of "make everything get-at-able". But you need to think of the context of "before I do (and maybe introduce other design challenges), why might I actually want to get at that thing?"...

MellishR liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

Is an Austin Princess a Texan version of M Markle ?? :-)

MellishR replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.

Thank you.

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...

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?

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...