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35B replied to the thread Flying to South Africa with video gear.
Not a rail trip, but went to SA in 2009. With friends, we took a chartered minibus to the Ponts Drift border crossing into Botswana where we went on safari, and then back to Joburg for a flight to Cape Town, where we stayed down near the...
Jun 27, 2026 at 8:25 AM -
35B liked Mark Thompson's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Only on the strictest note of pedantry. Because at no time will either engine be operating independently of either the train, or each other. The train would be one permanent continuous entity. The fact that there is a permanently coupled...
Jun 26, 2026 at 8:02 PM -
35B liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Why would the ORR insist on that? The ORR isn’t in the business of setting prescriptive policies about how heritage railways operate. What it wants to see is that you have robust processes in place to identify and manage risks - that’s quite a...
Jun 26, 2026 at 8:01 PM -
35B liked Jamessquared's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I know it is different in scale, but the "no whistling" edict also applies at East Grinstead on the Bluebell. The safety mitigation is that the section of line is "one engine in steam" and therefore those most at risk of being hit by a moving...
Jun 26, 2026 at 8:01 PM -
35B liked meeee's post in the thread FR & WHR & WHHR News.
Yes in FR terms. Double Engine = Double Fairlie Single Engine = not a Double Fairlie Taliesin is both a single engine and a Fairlie.
Jun 25, 2026 at 11:39 AM -
35B replied to the thread FR & WHR & WHHR News.
“Double engine” = Fairlie?
Jun 25, 2026 at 11:17 AM -
35B liked RailWest's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
The 'problem' - if there really is one - with any current PE extension proposal is that quite clearly it will be a terminus rather than a through station (halt) for such time until the L&BR can acquire the 'missing' sections of trackbed in order...
Jun 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM -
35B liked Old Kent Biker's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
Do bear in mind that PP was GRANTED in 2018 (see the archive, at https://www.lynton-rail.org.uk/story/planning-application-news for more details) to reinstate the line from Killington Lane to Parracombe as part of the project to continue to...
Jun 25, 2026 at 11:04 AM
