MellishRs letzte Aktivitäten
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MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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...
22 August 2026 um 11:42 -
MellishR gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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,...
22 August 2026 um 11:40 -
MellishR gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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...
22 August 2026 um 11:37 -
MellishR gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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...
22 August 2026 um 11:35 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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...
22 August 2026 um 11:34 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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"...
22 August 2026 um 11:28 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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...
22 August 2026 um 11:26 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
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...
22 August 2026 um 11:22
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MellishR gefällt LMS2968s Beitrag in dem Thema BR Double blastpipes.
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...
22 August 2026 um 11:16 -
MellishR gefällt 26D_Ms Beitrag in dem Thema Jacobite 2026.
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...
17 August 2026 um 08:30
