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    Gertrude

    The new issue of Narrow Gauge News (NGRS) says it is hoped that Gertrude will be at Leighton Buzzard August 29th-31st, There's also a picture of...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jul 17, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Mystery loco in mystery location.

    Could it be a mental asylum railway? I've seen something similar in an edition of The Railway Magazine from 1934 (which I don't have with me at...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jul 10, 2009 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Original plan for The Bala Lake Railway

    URL for the video please?
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jul 9, 2009 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    GOMM badges and souvenirs

    When I was a kid, I remember often being bought a Gomm badge, if there was one available, of the loco that I'd just travelled behind - I think my...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jul 3, 2009 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Exmoor Garratts?

    The boiler frame (but not necessarily the boiler it's carrying). As you've realised, it's all a bit arbitrary for the near-identical NGG16s from...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jul 1, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Exmoor Garratts?

    Expect 140 to enter service... gradually. Starting with one of its power units under one end of no. 138 when it re-enters service later this year....
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jun 30, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Barnes atlantic but which one? help needed

    There's probably never going to be a satisfactory way to decide where miniature stops and narrow gauge starts, and this is nothing new. For...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jun 30, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Barnes atlantic but which one? help needed

    The unrestored 18" Stirling Single that Preston have is not the one that was at Fairbourne in the 1920s and 1930s, and then went to Jaywick, was...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jun 30, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Exmoor Garratts?

    Things are moving on this front, don't worry!
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jun 28, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Waverley and Balmoral

    Some lovely local interest pictures for me there! And... in the background/hinterland of the first one, there's a former mixed-gauge terminus, a...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jun 27, 2009 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Cab ride around the Bekonscot Railway (10 scale miles)

    Strictly speaking, what you've got there (most enjoyable too) is not a cab ride but a "ghost ride" - the term was used in the early days of moving...
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jun 26, 2009 in forum: Model Railways
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    Top Gear and The power of Clarkson

    Not necessarily, but you'd have to be in North Wales to truly grasp this (where we have no overhead wires). And please don't call him Shirley... ;-)
    Post by: Ben Fisher, Jun 23, 2009 in forum: Steam Traction