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MellishR reageerde op het topic Rother Valley Railway.
Thank you.
26 aug 2026 om 17:37 -
MellishR vond jnc's post leuk in het topic 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...
26 aug 2026 om 17:26 -
MellishR reageerde op het topic 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?
26 aug 2026 om 17:15 -
MellishR vond Petra Wilde's post leuk in het topic 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...
26 aug 2026 om 17:01 -
MellishR reageerde op het topic 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.
26 aug 2026 om 09:25 -
MellishR vond Sheffield's post leuk in het topic 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...
26 aug 2026 om 09:23 -
MellishR vond torgormaig's post leuk in het topic 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...
24 aug 2026 om 17:39
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MellishR vond mikehartuk's post leuk in het topic 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...
24 aug 2026 om 17:38 -
MellishR vond Steve's post leuk in het topic 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)...
24 aug 2026 om 17:37 -
MellishR vond clinker's post leuk in het topic Rother Valley Railway.
Yes, but one level crossing is on the M25.
24 aug 2026 om 17:36 -
MellishR vond jnc's post leuk in het topic 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...
24 aug 2026 om 17:29 -
MellishR vond 35B's post leuk in het topic 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...
24 aug 2026 om 17:27 -
MellishR vond Kje7812's post leuk in het topic 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...
24 aug 2026 om 17:24 -
MellishR vond Breva's post leuk in het topic GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
There you have part of the problem, there is no room for an 8 coach carriage shed at Toddington, where services start. There is room both sides of the line at Winchcombe. Then, from which end do you approach it? How many roads, given that the...
24 aug 2026 om 17:23 -
MellishR vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
What does your long term plan say about how many carriages you need to operate the line (including those awaiting overhaul). Because that sets how big it needs to be :) OK, that’s a bit of a trite answer. But the important point is that those...
24 aug 2026 om 17:23
