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26D_M liked The Green Howards's post in the thread Fire Risk.
Eh? I've only ever had one before: the test one in September 2025. My phone keeps a history of them and there are but two entries - then, and today.
Aug 14, 2026 at 10:44 PM -
26D_M replied to the thread Jacobite 2026.
Mine's, cough, 38 years, cough
Aug 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM -
26D_M liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Jacobite 2026.
Have we reached the "I was talking to an acquaintance of mine in Dagestan recently - lovely person, profoundly wise for an inhabitant of that part of the world - about one of my patents and ... [continues]" stage of this argument yet? Tom
Aug 14, 2026 at 12:57 PM -
26D_M replied to the thread Jacobite 2026.
I would suggest "the overall business" is in effect a support system for the steam loco collecting, restoring, operating etc. If one cares to go wider, it could be seen that coal merchanting and farming is the primary business which yielded the...
Aug 14, 2026 at 11:53 AM -
26D_M liked Gladiator 5076's post in the thread Jacobite 2026.
You are both right really it is about shareholder value and the main shareholder almost certainly uses it to help maintain a collection. A collection that is really only part of the overall business though.
Aug 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM -
26D_M liked GWR4707's post in the thread Jacobite 2026.
Can I suggest going and googling (or possibly purchasing) Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall and possibly coming back to us after you have read that?
Aug 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM -
26D_M liked GWR4707's post in the thread Jacobite 2026.
Indeed, albeit the theory can also be expanded to those who try to compare the operations of LSL and WCR on a level footing, they are both businesses that use rolling stock and train operation as part of a much wider group to achieve their owners...
Aug 14, 2026 at 11:45 AM -
26D_M liked Sidmouth's post in the thread Jacobite 2026.
@osprey if you could throw your (hissy) fit and throw off your primadonna gown that would be grand . Nat Pres is so much better when a question is answered rather than playing a game of obfustication . If not I will quite happily consign the mess...
Aug 14, 2026 at 9:24 AM -
26D_M replied to the thread Jacobite 2026.
Precisely so. Which was the point I was trying to get across, owning/operating steam locos would not, in and of itself be a profit making venture. The other avenues offset and subsidise the bit which is akin to 'hobby'. Which is why I also made...
Aug 14, 2026 at 9:23 AM -
26D_M replied to the thread Jacobite 2026.
Why are you interested to know what I think when you've clearly decided that I haven't a clue about anything? WC took over running on the Mallaig extension mid 90s and built it up into the Jacobite from the service established in 1984 under...
Aug 14, 2026 at 8:58 AM
