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    Isle of Wight Steam Railway

    A great result for the railway and it's very satisfying to see something from the 'wishlist' on the strategic vision being crossed off. Also very...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Apr 18, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Great Central Railway General Matters

    Did he just sleep there regularly then? Happy to be enlightened as to how you use a mobile phone unconscious too...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Apr 7, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Great Central Railway General Matters

    Trains running or not, what was a photographer doing at the lineside if not taking pictures of the line or trains? Implementing lone working...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Apr 7, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

    To allow for repair of the van, resilience in your steam heating capabilities and thereby providing an improved customer experience?
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Apr 6, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

    I imagine the problem with using a DMU would be the capacity. My own experiences of using the Whitby trains in the summer has been that they are...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Mar 30, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

    One small point in a long post, but a Mk 1 is heritage stock, travelling in one is a heritage experience. The design is 70 years old, I'm in my...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Mar 27, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Tornado

    Just regarding the communications, I think you answered your own question: Like I alluded to in my previous post, when the s**t hits the fan the...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Mar 26, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    To be fair to the trust and put more of this conversation into the context James and Jim have been getting at, they have only just passed over...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Mar 25, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    A tough route certainly, but is a 92 mile slog conductive to presenting a large and heavily loaded locomotive with the opportunity to produce and...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Mar 19, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    If your prototype is full size, made of the same material and you can satisfy the fact that it has not suffered undue or irreversible wear as a...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Mar 18, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    60019 Bittern

    On the subject of wooden stock on the mainline, I think the GWR rail motor has made a few excursions onto the mainline before? [MEDIA] Trying to...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Feb 28, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    34039 Boscastle WC class

    I think most volunteers are happy to work with that, or are already working under that assumption? I couldn't name any heritage railway...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Feb 27, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Mountsorrel Heritage Centre

    The bridge has continued to make progress as time and money has allowed over the winter and we have reached quite an exciting milestone over the...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Feb 24, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Kent & East Sussex Railway

    That's not answering the question though, if you turned up having planned your day out and the loco advertised wasn't running, would you all get...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Feb 4, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion

    I'm not familiar with the NYMR's usual February half term time table, but would there usually be 2 steam hauled trains on and would they both be...
    Post by: Musket The Dog, Jan 23, 2025 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK