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  1. Jon Lever
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Well, elsewhere on the internet there's this... [ATTACH]
    Post by: Jon Lever, Apr 9, 2024 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
  3. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    All things considered I think I doubt that, but if we allow that that might be the case, what is the historiographical justification and purpose?
    Post by: Jon Lever, Feb 5, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
  4. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    Brunel did not design any locomotives per se but provided a set of specifications that were essentially unworkable and led to things like...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Jan 2, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
  5. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    The largest diameter coupled wheels on a British locomotive were 7'7" on the NER Q1 (LNER D18) which were built in 1896 specifically with a view...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Jan 2, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
  6. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    As always there are good points here, but even as a GWR man I'm agnostic about what CoT may or may not have done, other than (like Mallard, or...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Dec 24, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  7. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    I would suggest that either "revised" or "amended" would have been a better choice of words than "corrected" as that implies that 126mph has been...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Dec 23, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  8. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    Simon, indulge me just this once, and go back and re-read what I said. In context here, I specifically applied Sayre's law (by quoting a previous...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Dec 20, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  9. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    Yes, which is why most university arts faculties are riven with ill-feeling and vituperous behaviour sooner or later, often on a recurring basis....
    Post by: Jon Lever, Dec 18, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  10. Jon Lever
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    I think this is disappointing. I am agnostic as to whether Mallard broke 126mph, and I have absolutely no background in engineering, physics,...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Dec 18, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  11. Jon Lever
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    Swanage Railway General Discussion

    Not many certainties in there that I can see to encourage confidence. Does it not occur to you that one of the reasons why many venues charge...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Nov 6, 2023 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  12. Jon Lever
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    Swanage Railway General Discussion

    Calling it a round million and 40 FTEs gives an average annual wage per FTE of £25K, some way below the apparent UK average of £29600.
    Post by: Jon Lever, Oct 19, 2023 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  13. Jon Lever
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    Swanage Railway General Discussion

    From my wide reading of this site over many years, it seems to me unusual for you to miss an opportunity to laud and magnify the name of the...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Sep 19, 2023 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  14. Jon Lever
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    GWSR... GWR 2-8-0 stronghold.

    The story is related in Behrend's "Gone With Regret". He was on active service during the Allied advance through Italy in 1944. What he actually...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Sep 18, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  15. Jon Lever
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    If I were an opponent of the rebuilding of the L&B, I'd probably be quietly satisfied with the Trust's leadership over the last few years.
    Post by: Jon Lever, Sep 12, 2023 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
  16. Jon Lever
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    Question about Western and Hymek numbering

    Both the 35s and 52s had cast numbers, the 35s as individual (aluminium?) digits and the 52s as GWR style plates. The only Hymek to receive...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Jul 30, 2023 in forum: Diesel & Electric Traction
  17. Jon Lever
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    7027 Thornbury Castle

    Given their apparent approach to accuracy it may well be close enough for the GWS, but the coupled wheelbase of a 47xx is four foot longer than...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Jul 11, 2023 in forum: Steam Traction
  18. Jon Lever
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    Project Wareham

    Not necessarily the best idea in 3rd rail territory.
    Post by: Jon Lever, Jun 26, 2023 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  19. Jon Lever
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    Windcutter Wagons

    According to an issue of Model Railway Constructor in late 1978, the last two SNCF wagons had been claimed by the NRM. Don't have the copy to hand...
    Post by: Jon Lever, May 10, 2023 in forum: Heritage Rolling Stock
  20. Jon Lever
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    Kent & East Sussex Railway

    Well, no actually. In Southern days, nobody would have been fooled at either Headcorn or Robertsbridge when they they had to change from a...
    Post by: Jon Lever, Apr 12, 2023 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    There are certainly several cults commenting on here
    Post by: Jon Lever, Apr 11, 2023 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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