However good they may have been, it must have been a pretty exciting ride. Going back to the fact that I'm supposed to be making a model of the...
Only just realised - the big air reservoir that would have been cross-mounted underneath the rear frames has been removed on the uploaded...
The photo that you posted has one on the right hand tank! Maybe one went "walkies" at some point?
The name was on the small oval plaque on the side tanks. Staff knew it as "Jimmy Fryer" - apparently the man was called "Fryer", not "Fryers"..he...
I'm keeping it fairly simple - a South Eastertn Finecast kit with chassis in OO. I'd said I wouldn't make another model after doing a belpaire L&Y...
Have been on site today - I live in Horwich, not that far away, and I called in on the way back from seeing the 8f at Hellifield. I understood...
In 1947 the private Whittingham Asylum Railway that ran from Grimsargh on the Preston to Longridge branch to the large County Mental Hospital at...
Very smart! I don't know about painting it green, you could chrome plate that..... Have in the past driven the Maldegem example (re-engined, I...
A bit of a late update from 2013(!) - but it's at the Blackrod premesies of Bryn Engineering, partly stripped. At least it's not in a scrapyard...
So.....it looks like it's a sump heater. I suppose I could always warm my Ruston with it to give it a railway connection! Of course it's not just...
This may be nothing to do with railways at all but I thought that I'd run it past everyone just in case. Bought for £15 from an antique shop in an...
Memories of going in the cab of one near the end of it's life when visiting Old Oak Common shed as part of a school railway club trip that also...
It's a nice manageable set-up. Before I went there with Effie I'd visited to collect a rail bender which had been lent to the railway by the R&ER...
Maybe if I'd have spelt it correctly it would have helped too. However - have found out how to edit/correct it! Has made me dig out a photo of...
Title now amended - see below.
Has anybody saved a picture of these? The ebay listing has now ended and the photos don't seem to be accessible anymore. I was interested to see...
BBC News announced today that the Duke of Westminster has died at the young age of 64. In recent years he was behind the revival of part of the...
I don't have one to offer (though I own a 40DL with a 3VRH) - but I understand that these engines were used in excavators (e.g. Ruston Bucyrus)...
One of the Lincolnshire Coast Light Railway's Ashover LR Gloucester bogie carriages of 1925 nicely repainted in Ashover style. These carriages...
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