I don’t think anyone has mentioned W24 Calbourne.
I don’t think that I had the luxury of painting indoors at Bridgnorth until Andy Williams and I built the paint shop in about 1980ish.
Mention of 9220 takes me back to 1973 and repainting it from its original weather beaten BR maroon into Carmine and cream. I carried out the work...
Yes believe it or believe it not, on sunny summer days we actually export electricity to the north island. :-)
Havenstreet Station has had a couple of chargers for at least 5 years to my knowledge
Going on previous steam shows it’s usually Island engines if possible, so likely to be W24 and W8.
I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t, one of the common questions when training for footplate duties is why do you have two injectors? The answer is...
It’s quite possible that I was the fireman on it, we could never get the water pump and the injector to work at the same time.
The LBSCR brake van 56038 that was located on St Helens Duver is now at Havenstreet.
Yes it was the signal box, presumably the interlocking was underneath.
Definitely the Isle of Wight steam Railway, but then I might be a little biased.
I live a couple of miles from Ashey Station and can say with complete confidence that it has no more aircraft flying overhead than anywhere else...
Luck simply wasn’t on our side with the saloon as it was sold on by the previous owners, on the plus side it is in good hands and appreciated.
I have very distinct memories of riding on the footplate of WD 600 Gordon from York to Sheffield in 1975, the engine and tender would start...
Yes it used to be on the Nene Valley.
When I was with BR we were told never to lubricate springs as the friction between plates was important, the resulting friction provided damping.
certainly does make me wince, my paint brush could almost find its own way around an Ivatt nearly 50 years ago.
Please no ! I painted 46521 and 46443 into 7% solution livery with Bob Timmins, then after the filming had finished I repainted them both, it...
The move to Newport took place in 1969 by road from St John’s and as Martin mentions Smallbrook junction was disconnected and lifted as far as...
W24 was moved by road from Ryde StJohns to Newport when it first entered preservation.
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