I've fired over thirty different locos. Given that that list includes a 20 ton Fletcher-Jennings 0-4-0T from the 1870s and also Tornado, it is...
Look closer! Tom
I always managed to avoid that one in several years of standing by a Schlenk line! Tom
Yes, but we’d also put a liquid nitrogen trap in the circuit between pump and vacuum line to prevent the pump oil absorbing volatiles and reducing...
Interestingly I looked up the section on brakes in the Black Book. The text refers to a "vacuum pump" and there is a figure caption to a drawing...
No, very definitely in the context of the erection of the locos at Swindon. Tom
Indeed so. I have in front of me a copy of a GWR official publication 'The "King" of Railway Locomotives' and there is a chapter devoted to the...
80100 is owned by the Bluebell Railway plc. For a long time it was being held because an 80000 tank is considered an important preservation...
It shows Mr Gresley really wasn't trying very hard when I comes to loco design ;) Tom
Are you sure about those weights? It seems odd that a D49 is only two tons lighter overall, but has more than three tons per axle less axle load....
34059 - A 73082 - B 80151 - WR (GAL on Sunday) Tom
@Saint - was that you pedalling a trolley and waving a flag while the Giro went past today? (Tried to get a screenshot but the technology is not...
The mind boggles ;) (What happens in Wittersham stays in Wittersham …) Tom
August 7 1960 was the first day that trains ran, so that weekend nearly always has some kind of "internal" type event. Tom
Isn’t there a question of reversibility? That is, hypothetically you could remove the existing cylinder block and preserve it; and replace with a...
It does slightly surprise me that the NYMR doesn't arrange water at its intermediate stations - it doesn't have to be grand, a tank wagon in a...
Maybe North Yorks CC could provide a footpath diversion over a nice wide former-rail bridge parallel to the footbridge which, although no longer...
The LNERCA might have a few carriages knocking about under-used! ;) Tom
Yes, agree from our stock - but there are other railways out there as well! Like you, I wish it ran more. Tom
News of two vehicles carrying out vital missionary work to the heathens: There’s video on Facebook showing that 1520 (the LSW brake 3rd) has...
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