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  1. MellishR 支持 ghost 在 82045 The way ahead? 内发表的帖子.

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

    2026-08-31 , 14:16

  2. MellishR 支持 KHARDS 在 35025 Brocklebank Line 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2026-08-31 , 14:15

  3. MellishR 支持 Jamessquared 在 35025 Brocklebank Line 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2026-08-31 , 14:15

  4. MellishR 回复主题: Current and Proposed New-Builds.

    HS1? :D

    2026-08-30 , 11:36

  5. MellishR 支持 Jamessquared 在 82045 The way ahead? 内发表的帖子.

    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?"...

    2026-08-29 , 08:48

  6. MellishR 支持 RailWest 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

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

    2026-08-27 , 21:38

  7. MellishR 回复主题: Rother Valley Railway.

    Thank you.

    2026-08-26 , 17:37

  8. MellishR 支持 jnc 在 GWSR General Discussion and Operations 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2026-08-26 , 17:26

  9. MellishR 回复主题: 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?

    2026-08-26 , 17:15

  10. MellishR 支持 Petra Wilde 在 GWR four-cylinder arrangement? 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2026-08-26 , 17:01

  11. MellishR 回复主题: 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.

    2026-08-26 , 09:25

  12. MellishR 支持 Sheffield 在 Oil Firing 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2026-08-26 , 09:23
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