From K.J. Cook's book "Swindon Steam", in a discussion about the renewal fund: We converted ten Star class to Castles, having made a case that on...
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Beyond my pay grade! Tom
60532? Tom (No inside knowledge).
I suspect you can only answer that question by doing a longitudinal study of what the renewal programme was year by year. The priorities would...
Out of curiosity, why did a railway in deepest darkest Wales choose green for a set of carriages? Rather, than, say chocolate & cream? Not a...
You are missing the point that the locos were designed to do the same work. If you have two locos of comparable design doing the same work, they...
I think the same held for the SR. I've mentioned before a case where you can demonstrably show that to be the case, at least in BR(S) days: In a...
You're missing the point. I'm not saying that a Castle is just a Star with a larger boiler. Rather, that the Castles were designed to do the same...
"Accountants' rebuilds" gets somewhat derided as a concept in railway circles, but I think it made a lot of sense. Essentially the companies had...
It's the memory thing :) Tom
See this post from @torgormaig https://national-preservation.com/threads/flying-scotsman-single-chimney-poll.424568/page-4#post-1059258 I’m...
In A.F. Cook's "Raising steam on the LMS" he has a long section discussing staying of LMS boilers, and the variations over time between copper,...
I don't know I'm afraid. Tom
If I were flying from London to India at 100mph I think I'd want a bloody comfortable seat! Tom
No, now you’re just getting silly :rolleyes: Tom
Can I be the first to suggest on this thread that my dream scenario (“money no object, no reference to original L&BR rolling stock”, as per the...
With any luck the platework of the inner firebox shouldn’t swell inwards (and if it does, you should take steps - probably quite large ones …)...
Great Way Round. There’s only one sensible way to places beyond Exeter and it doesn’t start from Paddington … Tom
I think that was Imperial Airways (along with the other HP42s/45s). [IMG] RAS were most notable - at least in their pre-war heyday - for using...
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