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bluetrain ответил(а) в теме Oil Firing.
This thread links to videos of a British-built oil-burning Pacific at work in Argentina. https://national-preservation.com/threads/argentine-steam.1425985/#post-2994094 Also like the British-style lower quadrant semaphores.
24 авг 2026 в 22:06 -
bluetrain нравится сообщение brennan в теме Oil Firing.
In the book "British Steam on the Pampas" the author, DS Purdom who was the CME of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway until 1951, devotes a section to the subject of oil firing. He notes that over 500 locomotives used oil fuel with no...
24 авг 2026 в 22:02 -
bluetrain нравится сообщение Johann Marsbar в теме Argentine steam.
YT video of a recent test run...... [MEDIA]
24 авг 2026 в 21:57 -
bluetrain ответил(а) в теме GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
The GWSR seems, compared with most other heritage railways, to be very well provided with storage and maintenance facilities (at Toddington) for both steam and diesel locomotives. You have the carriage workshops at Winchcombe, but a carriage...
24 авг 2026 в 19:35 -
bluetrain нравится сообщение 35B в теме North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.
You might. But you still have the same problem that’s been identified for other options - a railway that goes between somewhere and nowhere. If I were staying in Whitby, would I want to pay for a steam trip to Grosmont compared to other options?...
24 авг 2026 в 13:33 -
bluetrain нравится сообщение Jamessquared в теме Rother Valley Railway.
Where there's a will there's a way! I mean, if the Kiwi's can put a level crossing over a runway, then what's to stop one on the M25? At least the vehicle traffic will inevitably be moving slowly, so hardly any additional hold up ... [MEDIA] Tom
23 авг 2026 в 21:14 -
bluetrain нравится сообщение flying scotsman123 в теме GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
According to our appendix, Broadway is 9.75 Mk1s long, Toddington is in the process of going from 6 to 6.25 Mk1s, Winchcombe is 7.5, Gotherington is 2, and Cheltenham is 13 on P1, and 9.5 on P2.
21 авг 2026 в 23:15
