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  1. 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

    Feb 19, 2026 at 9:03 AM

  2. RLinkinS replied to the thread 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...

    Feb 18, 2026 at 10:41 PM

  3. 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...

    Feb 18, 2026 at 10:36 PM

  4. RLinkinS liked Robin's post in the thread Railways and People.

    Moor Street's Flying Scotsman crowd control measures... [ATTACH]

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  5. RLinkinS liked Matt78's post in the thread The Gwili Railway thread.

    Taff Vale 51 touches down

    cc65d367-7edc-4fc2-b66c-4f8184cda0fb.jpeg Feb 17, 2026 at 10:44 PM

  6. RLinkinS liked torgormaig's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    Of course it could:) - thats why we had to take 6619 along with us to slow things down:eek:[ATTACH] 29/4/2006 Peter

    06-4-29 5a 3440+6619 copy.jpg Feb 14, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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