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  1. Breva liked brennan's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    The fuel/air mix , unless some very sophisticated controls have been installed, is manually controlled. Achieving smokeless combustion on flash up is practically impossible but the control of smoke when under load will improve as crews gain...

    May 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
  2. Breva liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.

    Those 25NC were wonderful Cape Gauge (3 ft 6 inch) mixed traffic 4-8-4s. Below is 3467 on the 21 coach up Oranje Express on 12 July 1991. Some years after the train was dieselised, but returned to steam sometimes towards the end as part of the...

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  3. Breva replied to the thread A day out in the Cotswolds.

    My wife cannot believe how you drove down the narrow road at Aston Sub Edge... She's convinced it's AI.

    May 7, 2026 at 1:48 PM
  4. Breva liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.

    June 1990 and I think this is possibly the first time I filmed a 25NC, in this case 25NC 3432 on a complete container train. The 4-8-4 is heading through the slightly less semi-arid Karoo as it approaches Heuningneskloof station on train 2415...

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  5. Breva liked 35B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I've now received the papers, and am digesting them. At a first glance, they appear a reasonable analysis of a current problem, and put forward some logical proposals. They also avoid plunging head first into the NYMR pattern. As a member, I'm...

    May 5, 2026 at 10:16 AM
  6. Breva replied to the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Be careful going down this road. The shareholders/members will be disenfranchised, and you will end up with a board that is stuck in a rut, and won't allow anyone else to join that doesn't think like they do. While you stand on the sidelines.

    May 3, 2026 at 7:22 PM
  7. Breva attached a file to the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.

    Good one! I got No. 22 arriving at Broadway: [ATTACH]

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  8. Breva liked beavis's post in the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.

    May 2nd 2026. Something Different at Toddington.[ATTACH]

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