When a loco is running chimney first on a train, the unused front coupling can be left dangling, parked on its own drawhook, or parked on a...
Brunel designed a bridge (aqueduct) to carry the (then) Grand Junction Canal over the (then new) GW branch to Brentford, and a road bridge to...
See [MEDIA] I do have a couple of nit-picks. There's a continuity glitch at 6:20 where the SECR loco being turned transmogrifies very briefly...
Maximum indicated horsepower depends on how much steam the boiler can produce (over some specified time period) and how efficiently the cylinders...
"The White Rose" with Tornado to York and Harrogate was advertised for 27-4-2019, but (so I understood) cancelled because of limited bridge...
[ATTACH] I am very slowly clearing out some of the "stuff" with which my house is infested. I don't know where this badge came from. Anyone...
There is discussion on the https://national-preservation.com/threads/60007-4498-sir-nigel-gresley-overhaul.678201/ thread about the NRM's...
In the Bluebell thread Can anyone direct me to a good debate on the bullhead vs flat-bottomed argument? It's a matter I'd like to learn about,...
An email from Pathfinder yesterday says "Pathfinder regret that with the current COVID19 restrictions in place we believe we would not be able to...
Timings now available: https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54908/2020-03-07/detailed...
This trip, which includes Copy Pit and the Todmorden Curve, is only five days away but I can't find a thread for it, so I'm starting this one....
There has been some discussion on the Tornado thread of the future need for, and the possible problems with, fitting ETCS to steam locos. I think...
The LT Museum is appealing for cash to restore the three 1930s surviving Q stock cards. The link at...
The Ffestiniog's track gauge is generally quoted as 1' 11⅝", which is extremely close to 600 mm. Wikipedia quotes both the WHR's and the L&B's...
Having cancelled my booking on RTC's High Peak Explorer because the revised route was no longer interesting enough (for me) to justify the two...
This is one of several themes on the http://www.national-preservation.com/threads/proposed-new-builds.985610 thread, which may deserve a separate...
I've been getting some of my old video tapes captured to computer files. They include numerous clips from Steam on the Met. The quality is not...
While some of you were gadding round Britain either filming GBX or aboard, some of us crossed the Irish Sea for RPSI's annual long weekend. This...
242A1's posting on the Gresley V4 thread, http://www.national-preservation.com/threads/gresley-v4.802580/page-4 post #80, highlights the large...
There is a bit of discussion on the GBIX thread concerning 44871's return to Crewe to have a broken radius rod replaced, but I think here is a...
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