MellishR 近期的活动
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MellishR 支持 Jamessquared 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
I was explicitly writing in the context of a "one railway" solution, i.e. what you might need to operate the current railway, or any extension of that railway that is feasible within the lifetime of such a policy. If a "two railway" operation was...
2026-08-22 , 11:42 -
MellishR 支持 35B 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
Firstly, you may want to consider where @Jamessquared volunteers... Second, you may want to consider how documents like that come into being - and it's not as tablets of stone from on high. I've been an armchair member there for ~25 years,...
2026-08-22 , 11:40 -
MellishR 支持 35B 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
In choice terms, the policy proposed is consistent with the sort of approach you've advocated for NYMR, in which preference is given to "authentic" locomotives rather than requiring strict local heritage compliance. As an ordinary member, I...
2026-08-22 , 11:37 -
MellishR 支持 35B 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
Which takes us to the age old question of whether it's hp or TE that matters for running a railway. I'd tend to go with hp as a better measure of operational performance rather than outright pulling power. All of which is taken care of in...
2026-08-22 , 11:35 -
MellishR 支持 Jamessquared 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
I'd like to see the 10,000hp narrow gauge loco! Being serious, I'd say having "unwritten rules" does not cut it: that is the gap through which all sorts of unsuitable ideas can germinate. So if it doesn't exist, sooner or later you are going to...
2026-08-22 , 11:34 -
MellishR 支持 Jamessquared 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
No, although I suspect there are a few who would not be averse to acquiring some - if only as "proof we are in the big league now, we've got a siding of rusty future projects". I'm sure we've all been to lines where, had the "guide to the line"...
2026-08-22 , 11:28 -
MellishR 支持 Jamessquared 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
Thanks. We took a couple of trips either side of lunch, and - having spent the previous week in Cornwall - my wife and I split the difference on the correct sequence of scone / cream / jam for lunch in between! I think what really struck me was...
2026-08-22 , 11:26 -
MellishR 支持 Jamessquared 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.
I dropped in and paid a first visit yesterday on our way back from holiday, so a few impressions. Firstly, on the positive side - the setting of Woody Bay is divine, and the place oozes SR atmosphere. [ATTACH] The necessary additions that...
2026-08-22 , 11:22
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MellishR 支持 LMS2968 在 BR Double blastpipes 内发表的帖子.
A stated aim of the BR Standard designs was to maintain rather than improve on the performances of existing pre-nationalisation classes and not necessarily to improve on their fuel consumption either. The Britannias were intended to compare with...
2026-08-22 , 11:16 -
MellishR 支持 26D_M 在 Jacobite 2026 内发表的帖子.
I would suggest "the overall business" is in effect a support system for the steam loco collecting, restoring, operating etc. If one cares to go wider, it could be seen that coal merchanting and farming is the primary business which yielded the...
2026-08-17 , 08:30
