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  1. bluetrain reageerde op het topic 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 aug 2026 om 22:06

  2. bluetrain vond brennan's post leuk in het topic 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 aug 2026 om 22:02

  3. bluetrain vond Johann Marsbar's post leuk in het topic Argentine steam.

    YT video of a recent test run...... [MEDIA]

    24 aug 2026 om 21:57

  4. bluetrain reageerde op het topic 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 aug 2026 om 19:35

  5. bluetrain vond 35B's post leuk in het topic 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 aug 2026 om 13:33

  6. bluetrain vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic 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 aug 2026 om 21:14

  7. bluetrain vond flying scotsman123's post leuk in het topic 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 aug 2026 om 23:15
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