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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    Rest assured that your meaning is very clear and your frustration and passion unmistakable.
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 12 июн 2025 в 22:11 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  3. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    I agree wholeheartedly, a steam crane has all of the costs of a steam loco but very little of the revenue-earning potential, and therein lies the...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 12 июн 2025 в 09:43 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  4. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    Yes, confirmed, 95222 has now gone in pieces to a metal recycler from Newark This brings the total number of ex-mainline breakdown cranes...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 9 июн 2025 в 11:00 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  5. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    Can I repeat my (non-judgemental) question, has 95222 actually been scrapped? As a steam crane owner myself I am very well aware of the...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 3 июн 2025 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  6. Roger_C
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    It was being reported on social media that the 1948 Cowans Sheldon 36/45 ton breakdown crane ADRC95222 was to be cut for scrap at Ruddington on...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 31 май 2025 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  7. Roger_C
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    141R1332 to the UK!

    Very interesting (and encouraging), thanks for posting the link.
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 8 фев 2025 в разделе: Steam Traction
  8. Roger_C
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    141R1332 to the UK!

    US practice was to cast the loco bed complete with cylinders as a single unitary part, and virtually all (if not all) of the American superpower...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 8 фев 2025 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Leaf springs - to coat or not coat

    Since it is -possible to design a spring which does exactly what is required when lubricated, and utterly impossible to predict how it will...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 20 мар 2024 в разделе: Locomotive Engineering M.I.C
  10. Roger_C
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    Flying Scotsman

    Only Mk1 corridor stock had Buckeyes, non-corridor suburban stock did not.
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 6 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    There is no such thing as a "simple Mallet", although I suppose the term could refer to a Mallet which lacks complexity, or possibly a Mallet...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 4 янв 2023 в разделе: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  12. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    It is far from splitting hairs. In the taxonomy of steam locos they are specific terms meaning different things and should be used properly, it is...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 3 янв 2023 в разделе: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  13. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    A Big Boy is categorically NOT a Mallet, it is a simple-articulated locomotive. For the record and to correct several other popular Big Boy...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 3 янв 2023 в разделе: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  14. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    ALCO had the sole US licence for the Gresley conjugated valve gear and promoted it vigorously in the 1920s as part of its 3-cylinder campaign when...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 3 янв 2023 в разделе: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
  15. Roger_C
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    Articulated Steam Locomotives of North America

    Forgive me if I am mistaken, but several of your posts suggest that you may be confusing the terms "Mallet" and "articulated", they are not...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 3 янв 2023 в разделе: International Heritage Railways/Tramways
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    Pink engine?!

    I remember it well, very weird even by the standards of the time. If I remember correctly it was for a wall-paper adhesive advertisement.
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 13 ноя 2020 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    The 9F as a heritage railway locomotive

    Overhaul costs per mile will be fine if the loco is doing the mileage BR used to do. There is no heritage railway in the UK that could put even a...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 20 авг 2020 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    The 9F as a heritage railway locomotive

    The East Somerset has done, twice, but had to take them down the branch to Merehead for a good workout. Over 2000 tons as I recall. They are...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 20 авг 2020 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    East Somerset Railway

    I have made the ESR trustees aware of this generous offer. Many thanks.
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 2 июн 2020 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    I have made the ESR trustees aware of this generous offer. Many thanks.
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 2 июн 2020 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    East Somerset Railway

    The crane is privately owned and since it has limited revenue earning potential any overhaul is down to the owner, who sadly is not a wealthy...
    Сообщение от: Roger_C, 24 июн 2019 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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