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TheModster replied to the thread Steam Dreams 2024.
Thursdays GOE and SSE runs now advertised as 46100 vice 70000
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:23 AM -
ykin01 liked David likes trains's post in the thread British Pullman 2024.
Two photos of Thursday's outing. [img] Speeding towards Teynham, between Sittingbourne and Faversham. [img] On the coast at Capel Le Ferne footbridge, unfortunately checked by a p-way slack between here and the tunnel into Folkestone.
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:20 AM -
hyboy liked Jamessquared's post in the thread 567 Victorian 4-4-0 New Build.
This is really more a question about CTL Seal than No. 567, for which apologies. What is their main business? Once you get to the stage of erecting the frames, you have a big lump that takes up a fair amount of space, and isn't especially...
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:20 AM -
hyboy liked ghost's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
The new owner has commented on Facebook: "We have some plans for the next few years including a plan to repaint the engine into its original livery as delivered from the Atlas Works. If we can find some Peckett loco buffers they would also be a...
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:19 AM -
hyboy liked marshall5's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
...... and she doesn't look all that different to the first (and last) time I saw Marcia at Rolvenden in July 1967. Ray. [ATTACH]
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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hyboy liked 5944's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
From KESR Facebook page... "After a brief holiday in Devon Marcia is returning home. For the last 61 years the 101-year-old locomotive – one of the smallest operational standard gauge locomotives in the UK – has called the Kent & East Sussex...
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:17 AM -
hyboy liked Fireline's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
While I take some of your points, I think you are over simplifying things. While our steam availability was low, something as simple as a broken spring, found by the driver on checking after the loco has long since been lit up, has necessitated...
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:17 AM -
hyboy liked Fireline's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
For the reasons I have detailed previously, we haven't always been able to do that.
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:16 AM -
hyboy liked Fireline's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
It is often announced on the railway's social media. Unfortunately, the guy who makes the decisions on which locos run is so far up to his unmentionable in alligators that he just doesn't have time to publicise anything. I will ask if there is...
Jun 18, 2024 at 11:16 AM -
ruddingtonrsh56 replied to the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
If Marcia is in traffic now then you could have 2 together in traffic soon - Teddy's owner has posted on Facebook they are anticipating Teddy will steam again early next year
Jun 18, 2024 at 10:48 AM
