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Spinner ответил(а) в теме Steamrail Victoria (AU) open days.
And, as an added bonus, Newport Railway Museum is a very short walk away.
11 янв 2026 в 06:50 -
Spinner нравится сообщение Austeam в теме Steamrail Victoria (AU) open days.
Steamrail Victoria (located in Melbourne Australia) are holding their workshop open days in the former Victorian Railways Newport Workshops. From March 7-10. Usually between 7-10 locos in steam. Doing demonstration runs on a short mixed/goods...
11 янв 2026 в 06:49
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Spinner нравится сообщение LMS2968 в теме Austerity 2-8-0 query.
A problem with WDs as far as crews were concerned was the fore and aft surging as speed rose, increasing from 25 m.p.h. on to the point where anything above 40 m.p.h. was bordering on dangerous. The reason was the lack of reciprocating balance....
7 янв 2026 -
Spinner нравится сообщение 35B в теме Austerity 2-8-0 query.
You're overlooking the minor matter of the complete replacement of all steam in those 20 years. No correlation between scrapping rate and usefulness should be assumed given the mass extinction nature of what happened.
7 янв 2026 -
Spinner нравится сообщение 5944 в теме Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
It's NP, surely we should be discussing what colour ink was used for the accounts? ;) It does seem a bit daft all the experiments and improvements with steam locos, when large parts of the rest of the railway essentially stagnated for a hundred...
7 янв 2026
