Not quite correct Pan Man. It is not the worst of the three and none of them are bad. It is for sale repaired with a ten year ticket. It has also...
We recovered two tender frames from Northwich shed, which had been put there originally to fuel DMU's , I believe. Both frames had been converted...
To answer your question David, all of us at times help WCR out with guarding, firing, and other jobs when they are short of staff, but we really...
The pathethic thing the LNER termed a tender water gauge has seized up and he is peering into the tank to see if there is any water left in there....
Thanks for all the interest in this one chaps. yes it will be an operational engine and yes Salty has got his decimal point in the wrong place...
Mike in answer to your queries the coal was a mixture, that loaded on at TYS was Daw Mill but we took a couple of buckets at the Carnforth water...
At the risk of being rapped over the knuckles tomorrow morning for getting it wrong, I think that this one made four, including the Leander one 2...
Mike, The fireman was a young man by the name of Alastair Meanley. Whilst many of you have been kind enough to offer me congratulations on 5043,...
Well!!! Hasn't this been an interseting thread? First of all there has been a distinct silence this morning from some of the earlier...
Jim, Given the somewhat aggressive stance above , perhaps you might care to tell the rest of the audience what significant contributions to main...
Now, why would someone want to use a code number for calling himself Princess Margaret Rose?
Thanks for all the nice comments on this guys. If there is one thing that is most gratifying about doing this project, it is the huge number of...
Adrian Crafer had the pattern at Swindon Histeric Castings. We had one cast some time ago as we had to make a new one for 6229. Bob
Thank you for the reminder Mr Jones, but we are very aware of it. The parts concerned are made but didn't get fitted because the paint was too...
It is actually quite simple. There were two issues to this, servicing and crews. Had the steam worked all the way through, it would have involved...
Small point. Despite appearing to some to be "taking it steady", the engine was actually maintaining the sectional timings in the schedule, and...
Just to clarify this issue on 5043. There has been a lot of confused rubbish as to why the move/ GW weekend didn't occur printed in various mags...
Bit late picking up on this post, as it seems to have gone off track onto wagons and things! But just a note to say in answer to the original...
Sorry T Bird but from an owners point of view this whole business of playing at painting engines is not all it is cracked up to be. We had some...
Would have thought that Bongo would have offered some info on this loco by now with his knowledge of LMS loco matters and detailed records....
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