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  1. MellishR
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    Northern Belle 2023

    That particular loco seems often to make a lot more clag than others, including other West Coast locos which presumably get the same coal. Any...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 30 окт 2023 в разделе: What's Going On
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    Steam Dreams 2023

    How hard would it be to fit modern bogies, for example from scrapped MkIII coaches?
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 29 окт 2023 в разделе: What's Going On
  4. MellishR
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    I have always wondered whether safety chains would actually work or would break with the sudden snatch when the main coupling (which should be...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 28 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  5. MellishR
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    Tornado

    An example of a common management approach: "Never mind whether it's possible: just do it".
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 28 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  6. MellishR
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    Steam Dreams 2023

    which can presumably be hauled by steam, diesel or 25 kV electric on lines without the third rail.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 28 окт 2023 в разделе: What's Going On
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    Certainly no-one in the 1960s would have believed what was going to be achieved, against all the challenges that were then apparent. But the...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 27 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  8. MellishR
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    That doesn't seem to have been a problem for Chapelon.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 27 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  9. MellishR
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    I agree that this discussion deserves a separate thread but I am not opening one because I am not at all sure what the title or exact scope should...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 27 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  10. MellishR
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    Olympics, But For Trains!

    I would agree, except that there seemed to be no actual sound nor any commentary, so in this instance nothing is lost by turning the sound off....
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 26 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  11. MellishR
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    Tornado

    Presumably yes, but I'd still like to know what they are.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 25 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  12. MellishR
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    Tornado

    That prompted me to see what they are saying on the news page, which took me to...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 25 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    All of that is true with regard to balancing, but surely balancing is all about the inertia of the moving parts, so becomes more relevant as the...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 23 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  14. MellishR
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    Thank you. Cavan andLeitrim didn't make sense and I hadn't thought of non-railway companies.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 23 окт 2023 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  15. MellishR
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    East Midlands Railway Trust/GCR (Nottingham)

    S&L? MS&L?
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 23 окт 2023 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  16. MellishR
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    Strathspey Railway

    Just picking up the last sentence; we can all think of a railway where the structure is seriously sub optimal and (if I'm not mistaken)...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 23 окт 2023 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  17. MellishR
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    Is that right, that a Class 7 Pacific, with its weight spread over one more axle than a Class 8 King's, had no wider route availability? Even if...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 23 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  18. MellishR
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    Or perhaps because of having served his apprenticeship there?
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 22 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    It seems there was still a lot of "suck it and see" in those days and insufficient reason to do much of that to improve the Clans, so they were...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 22 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  20. MellishR
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    Strathspey Railway

    I expected that article to go on to tell the board's side of the story, but it stops there. They assert that the allegations are "unsubstantiated"...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 21 окт 2023 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Strathspey Railway

    I get an invitation to subscribe. If the "company chiefs" believe they are in the right, it wouldn't hurt for them to tell their side of the story...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 21 окт 2023 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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