I am not sure about the ins and outs rights and wrongs of all this, but I am very grateful to Mr Martin for the interesting information he has...
I recall a suggestion that the accident at Grantham GNR arose because of this issue. It was suggested that GNR practice was to "pull the strings"...
A sad loss to the forum. I would like to think that you may in time return.
"Provide additional narrative around track renewal". Sounds like they intend to play the usual card when wanting to close a railway. "The track...
It had the advantage that a lot more of it could be built in BR's own workshops, compared to a diesel electric, and it put more power on to the...
Is there any other confirmation that the design is a Kitson design? Based on the above comment it could be said that the design was by the GCR,...
Very sad news. I hope that steam at Wolsztyn may continue as his memorial. I have fond memories of my time there.
Although I have read all this I am still not sure whether City of Truro reached 100 mph or not, but I am very glad a number of people thought it did.
I think you underestimate the value of the people who worked under the CMEs you mention. The Duchess was really Colman's work, but without Stanier...
And thank you, Sir, for making it possible.
I would have suggested that the South African Garratt in the Manchester museum is the most powerful loco in the UK at present.
I think you need to be careful what you wish for. With the budget cuts coming NRM may end up with only ten locos. Or is that what this is all about?
It seems to me that Nationalisation itself was a disadvantage to the railways from the point of view that it converted the owners of the railways...
E S Cox says in one of his books that Riddles and his men did not want to try the injector, as they knew the 9F had a good steam circuit already....
We are told that Fury was taken to Crewe and the chassis rebuilt with a type 2 boiler. But I wonder just how much of the original remained....
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