الأنشطة الأخيرة الخاصة بـ MellishR
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أعجب MellishR بمشاركة acorb' في موضوع FR & WHR & WHHR News.
Quite remarkable statement really given the size of the FR's fleet, only 3 locos are in long term storage, everything else is either active or under repair. I remember reading something that it is current policy to keep locos operational, as...
24 جوان 2026 في 11:33 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة meeee' في موضوع FR & WHR & WHHR News.
Welsh Pony has been repaired however it still needs it's annual boiler exam before it can enter service again. Blanche is stopped now pending a bottom end overhaul. James Spooner is now in the works having stay repairs. Likely to be back out...
24 جوان 2026 في 11:32 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة LMS2968' في موضوع Bahamas.
The two systems work on very different principles and the mass of air to be moved in a vacuum system is much greater than in an air system, so it requires more time to, for instance, fill and drain a cylinder. Look tat the thickness of an air...
24 جوان 2026 في 11:16 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة LMS2968' في موضوع Bahamas.
The different air / vacuum (air pressure in reverse) are compensated by the use of bigger cylinders for a vacuum system so equalising the brake effort. A vacuum brake can be just as effective as an air system although slower acting, hence the...
24 جوان 2026 في 11:15 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة Olde576' في موضوع Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I say this with more about how the L&B didn’t exactly suit itself well with locals the first go around: be it by a lack of proximity as was the case with Woody Bay or Lynton’s stations to the towns and villages they were supposed to serve, or...
22 جوان 2026 في 10:40 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة Old Kent Biker' في موضوع Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
To be fair, this thread has been running since 2009, and has 818 pages, so it is perhaps a bit much to expect anyone to remember or read through all of it, and not everyone is within easy distance of the L&B to visit 'in the flesh' so to speak....
22 جوان 2026 في 10:39 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة RailWest' في موضوع Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Indeed :-( Do people never actually (a) read what has already been written on the subject so many times and (b) go and look at the area and appreciate the impractical nature of their suggestions (however well-meant they may be) ???
22 جوان 2026 في 10:38 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة David Mylchreest' في موضوع SVR General Discussion.
Yep thank you for that. I did look at this before I posted but it doesn't nail the question. I gather that BR built the loco to an LMS design in 1952 (I can remember it at Crewe), so far so good. As built, did BR give it an LMS makers plate?...
21 جوان 2026 في 8:31 صباحاً -
المشاركة في موضوع West Somerset Railway General Discussion.
As for example seeing an amber traffic light, with plenty of time to stop, but instead keeping going and passing it after it has turned to red.
21 جوان 2026 في 8:28 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة Jamessquared' في موضوع West Somerset Railway General Discussion.
What happened to the steam service? Presumably the three possibilities are that it continued after a bridge inspection; propelled its train back to the previous station; or was rescued by a rescuing loco from BL entering the section and hauling...
21 جوان 2026 في 8:25 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة Vulcan Works' في موضوع Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
There are many potential different grants and awarding bodies for different aspects of heritage, the environment, economic regeneration, education and so on but hardly any will award a grant to purchase land. It might be possible to apply for...
20 جوان 2026 في 11:06 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة Miff' في موضوع Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Thank you! Both old websites are out of date, with the EA one apparently still looking for shareholders and the YVT one saying the only 'Members' are the trustees. No doubt the new website will resolve this :)
20 جوان 2026 في 11:05 صباحاً -
أعجب MellishR بمشاركة 21B' في موضوع North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
Keeping in touch with the dead? Will this be the start of the afterlife subscription model? (seriously though, I think it’s a lovely idea to keep in touch, but as with many coms it could have done with a bit of a proof read perhaps. Another...
19 جوان 2026 في 10:02 صباحاً
