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  1. torgormaig liked Dan Hill's post in the thread Flying Scotsman.

    Many thanks for sharing, given it's my local station and this is the only photo I've seen of that trip from Haywards Heath (though I do have a DVD of Alan Pegler's Tender Memories film and there's a clip of the loco that the voiceover says is the...

    Mar 12, 2025 at 6:51 AM

  2. torgormaig liked Big Al's post in the thread Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    The 'Q' story to end all 'Q' stories was the one I first read as I was editing the raw text from Nine Elms Top Link man Jim Evans for his articles prior to him converting them into a book. He was fireman at Bournemouth to Joe Langdon when they...

    Mar 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM

  3. torgormaig replied to the thread Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    I believe that Bournemouth had a couple of Qs in the 1950s that occasionally ventured to Templecombe and sometimes beyond. In "Footplate over The Mendips" Peter Smith recounts the occasion that the booked loco (a Bath WC pacific) for the 9.25pm...

    Mar 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM

  4. torgormaig attached a file to the thread Flying Scotsman.

    Well Dan, my first sight of it was when it ran down to Brighton on a tour in September 1966 as it ran through my childhood home station at Haywards Heath [ATTACH] I seem to have been plagued by it ever since - and yes, it even caught up with me...

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  5. torgormaig liked Copper-capped's post in the thread Flying Scotsman.

    I was privileged to catch these two stabled together near Yeerongpilly stn as they warmed down after their run up to Brisbane in 1989. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]

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  6. torgormaig liked richards's post in the thread Tornado.

    But when the vocal minority starts swamping all other content in a thread, it makes it difficult to get a balanced view and other updates easily get missed. This may also put off people from posting more balanced views or - heaven forbid - a...

    Mar 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM

  7. torgormaig liked 60017's post in the thread Tornado.

    When I first saw her like this...it warmed my heart. Like many I'm sure, it reminds us of happy childhoods, spotting at Doncaster & York on day trips from Lancs! [ATTACH]

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  8. torgormaig liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Tornado.

    So are the tyres below main line standard? Or are you just making things up? It would seem remarkable to me if they were unfit, and yet someone has just put their professional reputation on the line and signed it off as fit to run on the...

    Mar 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM

  9. torgormaig liked Matt37401's post in the thread Bulleid Pacifics - Past or Present.

    With what’s going on and with the potential to what could go on, I really have to say this is crass and in bad taste.

    Mar 7, 2025 at 7:31 AM

  10. torgormaig liked acorb's post in the thread Tornado.

    I'm sorry, but this is now the economic reality of running steam on the mainline and should come as no surprise to anyone on here. Aside from Clan Line, no other single loco owning group can find the volume of work to make life viable without...

    Mar 6, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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