You have started an interesting discussion, although it seems to have been more about compounding than about GW 4-cylinder locos. You are right...
Outside link motion was common among 19th-Century locos in Continental Europe - although sometimes of the Gooch or Allan variants of Stephenson gear.
I believe the Adams engine only worked as a compound for about 3 years, before being converted back to standard. Compounding was always a...
Plenty of 2-cylinder compound heavy freight types for you in Continental Europe. I think the ultimate was the Saxon XI HV 0-10-0, built as late...
Presumably you have in mind something like the Polish Pt31 and Pt47 2-8-2s? Express passenger locos very similar in overall size and dimensions...
You are certainly right to warn of the perils of that course. If I remember rightly, the Llangollen had the advantage that the LRO and most of...
Thanks for posting those interesting figures. I was gob-smacked to learn that the E&BA is among the major heritage railways in financial terms....
I recall that there was a reference some years back (might have been in this forum or possibly the GWSR's own web site) to an account by GWR...
I visited Didcot yesterday - a non-running day with very few people around. Looking around the running shed, two of the usual residents appeared...
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