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RLinkinS liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
Wonderful to hear your Karoo experiences. The 25 you heard in 1986 would have been 3511, the sole operational surviving condensing lok by then and a heritage loco by then too based at Beaconsfield loco shed, Kimberley. The shed would sometimes...
22. Veljača 2026. u 15:55
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RLinkinS liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
As I got to know Salmon who ran the Witput hotel I always got room 5. It had a bath and a door that opened directly to the outside that was a few paces to the track side. And as steam operations reduced, Peter Odell, a De Aar driver until that...
21. Veljača 2026. u 12:12
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RLinkinS liked Big Al's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
Much to my shame, I made a belated first visit to the KESR the other day, taking care to avoid the Gruffalo event! It really is a lovely line and despite the manual operation of the various road crossing points, it seems to work well at its own...
20. Veljača 2026. u 17:07
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RLinkinS liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
I'm not sure if this non-UK thread is allowed- but there is at least a Harz steam thread around somewhere. So I'll bash on with this for now. The Karoo semi desert region in South Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoo is top of my list of...
20. Veljača 2026. u 10:14
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RLinkinS liked green five's post in the thread Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
41312 has been unveiled in her new livery: [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Pictures from Facebook. Sent from my XQ-BT52 using Tapatalk
19. Veljača 2026. u 10:32
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RLinkinS liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Mid-Hants Railway | Watercress Line | Spring Steam Gala 24th-26th April 2026.
Nice one! But dinosaurs are creatures of wide open spaces (easier to pick up incoming asteroids) and don't do crawling into small baths. Bryan
19. Veljača 2026. u 09:03 -
RLinkinS odgovara u temi Mid-Hants Railway | Watercress Line | Spring Steam Gala 24th-26th April 2026.
The treatment for that infraction should be to crawl into the oil bath with a short handled sledge hammer and remove the little end pin for inspection (I was told about the difficulty of this task by an ex Ramsgate fitter) Sent from my SM-A356B...
18. Veljača 2026. u 22:41 -
RLinkinS liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Mid-Hants Railway | Watercress Line | Spring Steam Gala 24th-26th April 2026.
Yes indeed. Sadly over many years I have rather got into the habit of calling any loco in the number ranges 34001 to 34110, and 35001 to 35030, Bulleid Pacifics. When of course a substantial number, including all the Merchant Navy class became...
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RLinkinS liked Robin's post in the thread Railways and People.
Moor Street's Flying Scotsman crowd control measures... [ATTACH]
18. Veljača 2026. u 19:12
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RLinkinS liked Matt78's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.
Taff Vale 51 touches down
17. Veljača 2026. u 22:44
