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    4920 Dumbleton Hall

    In my experience, most of them are closer to 28 year old women with souvenir Sorting Hats and plastic wands (oo er). Source: Met too many...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Jan 12, 2021 at 12:23 PM in forum: Steam Traction
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    LEV2 Wickham / Leyland Railbus Repatriation Project - Press Release

    I need to add it to the queue. I've been going back to older episodes when I run out of episodes in the car but now I have to hear this.
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 16, 2020 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
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    Defunct preserved railways

    Shades of Spinal Tap's Stonehenge.
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 16, 2020 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    LMS Black 5 5025

    5025 is close to the finishing mark. Its now in primer and some bits of fiddly pipework are still being bent like that kids toy found in every...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 12, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    92219 on the move?

    Cheese Butty specials in Outer Monglia?
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 12, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    92219 on the move?

    Claims over on Faceache that its off to a private site. Last I heard anything about it was when it left Kirkby Stephen and the owner was...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 10, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Rolling Stock For Sale

    Is this the one that they bought the Irish Thumper to provide spares for?
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 9, 2020 in forum: Heritage Rolling Stock
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    Fancy living in a railway arch?

    I had the horrifying image of living in one under an active line. I've been in enough breweries to know how unpleasant they can be in that...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 4, 2020 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    4079 Pendennis Castle

    I've read reference to Didcot wanting to take it mainline when it returned from The Land Of Men At Work but 2000 was a massively different scene...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 2, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction
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    LEV2 Wickham / Leyland Railbus Repatriation Project - Press Release

    LEV2, theres a name I thought I hadn't heard for a while. Its time with South East Penn Transport Authority was marked by the fact SEPTA was just...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 1, 2020 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
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    Railcar of the Year 2020

    I get that logic.
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 1, 2020 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
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    Railcar of the Year 2020

    Certainly an interesting thought experiment here. I could just about see why the NER autocar doesn't count. But what truly differs the Southern...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Dec 1, 2020 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
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    'Lew'

    Probably wouldn't have taken to the Ex-war Alcos or Hunslets then?
    Post by: Paul Grant, Nov 29, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    FR & WHR & WHHR News

    I'd have thought having the boiler right on top of the driving axles with only the cab behind the rear axle would give it decent adhesion? I am...
    Post by: Paul Grant, Nov 24, 2020 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Overhaul of G.W.R. 2.8.2. Tank engine 7200

    That sounds familiar. Maybe I was getting 00 and 29 mixed up. Which then means the 00 will be the first of the class to steam in preservation.
    Post by: Paul Grant, Nov 24, 2020 in forum: Steam Traction