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  1. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    Rest assured that your meaning is very clear and your frustration and passion unmistakable.
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏12 جوان 2025 في 10:11 مساءاً في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  3. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    I agree wholeheartedly, a steam crane has all of the costs of a steam loco but very little of the revenue-earning potential, and therein lies the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏12 جوان 2025 في 9:43 صباحاً في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  4. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    Yes, confirmed, 95222 has now gone in pieces to a metal recycler from Newark This brings the total number of ex-mainline breakdown cranes...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏9 جوان 2025 في 11:00 صباحاً في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  5. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    Can I repeat my (non-judgemental) question, has 95222 actually been scrapped? As a steam crane owner myself I am very well aware of the...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏3 جوان 2025 في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  6. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    It was being reported on social media that the 1948 Cowans Sheldon 36/45 ton breakdown crane ADRC95222 was to be cut for scrap at Ruddington on...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏31 ماي 2025 في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  7. Roger_C
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    141R1332 to the UK!

    Very interesting (and encouraging), thanks for posting the link.
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏8 فبراير 2025 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    141R1332 to the UK!

    US practice was to cast the loco bed complete with cylinders as a single unitary part, and virtually all (if not all) of the American superpower...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏8 فبراير 2025 في منتدى: Steam Traction
  9. Roger_C
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    Leaf springs - to coat or not coat

    Since it is -possible to design a spring which does exactly what is required when lubricated, and utterly impossible to predict how it will...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏20 مارس 2024 في منتدى: Locomotive Engineering M.I.C
  10. Roger_C
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    Flying Scotsman

    Only Mk1 corridor stock had Buckeyes, non-corridor suburban stock did not.
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏6 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
  11. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    There is no such thing as a "simple Mallet", although I suppose the term could refer to a Mallet which lacks complexity, or possibly a Mallet...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏4 يناير 2023 في منتدى: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  12. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    It is far from splitting hairs. In the taxonomy of steam locos they are specific terms meaning different things and should be used properly, it is...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏3 يناير 2023 في منتدى: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  13. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    A Big Boy is categorically NOT a Mallet, it is a simple-articulated locomotive. For the record and to correct several other popular Big Boy...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏3 يناير 2023 في منتدى: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  14. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    ALCO had the sole US licence for the Gresley conjugated valve gear and promoted it vigorously in the 1920s as part of its 3-cylinder campaign when...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏3 يناير 2023 في منتدى: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  15. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    Forgive me if I am mistaken, but several of your posts suggest that you may be confusing the terms "Mallet" and "articulated", they are not...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏3 يناير 2023 في منتدى: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
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    Pink engine?!

    I remember it well, very weird even by the standards of the time. If I remember correctly it was for a wall-paper adhesive advertisement.
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏13 نوفمبر 2020 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    The 9F as a heritage railway locomotive

    Overhaul costs per mile will be fine if the loco is doing the mileage BR used to do. There is no heritage railway in the UK that could put even a...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏20 أوت 2020 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    The 9F as a heritage railway locomotive

    The East Somerset has done, twice, but had to take them down the branch to Merehead for a good workout. Over 2000 tons as I recall. They are...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏20 أوت 2020 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    East Somerset Railway

    I have made the ESR trustees aware of this generous offer. Many thanks.
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏2 جوان 2020 في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    I have made the ESR trustees aware of this generous offer. Many thanks.
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏2 جوان 2020 في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    East Somerset Railway

    The crane is privately owned and since it has limited revenue earning potential any overhaul is down to the owner, who sadly is not a wealthy...
    المشاركة بواسطة: Roger_C, ‏24 جوان 2019 في منتدى: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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