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Breva liked 21B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I think the plan is to work with the local authorities and people to work out what the best fit and solution would be having first demonstrated need and net benefit.
Feb 23, 2026 at 12:31 PM -
Breva replied to the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
On a 14 day tour in the old Blue Train set we stopped by a feature known as the red wall for a run by. Everyone out, over the barbed wire, and up that hillside. The tour leader had a Walkie Talkie to the loco crew. Driver, are you ready? Ja, ons...
Feb 22, 2026 at 1:19 PM -
Breva liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
Wonderful to hear your Karoo experiences. The 25 you heard in 1986 would have been 3511, the sole operational surviving condensing lok by then and a heritage loco by then too based at Beaconsfield loco shed, Kimberley. The shed would sometimes...
Feb 22, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Breva replied to the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
We allpiled out of our train and up a little mound for a run-by. Any land mines here? No sir, no land mines here. Same scenario 5km down the line. We pile out, small hill by the lineside. Any land mines here? No Sir, definitely no land mines...
Feb 21, 2026 at 4:55 PM -
Breva replied to the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
Did you meet any snakes when you were out there? I stood in a field waiting for a train when these two guys ambled by, and wondered if there were any Cape Cobras around. Cape whats ??? :eek:
Feb 21, 2026 at 1:18 PM -
Breva liked The Gricing Owl's post in the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
As I got to know Salmon who ran the Witput hotel I always got room 5. It had a bath and a door that opened directly to the outside that was a few paces to the track side. And as steam operations reduced, Peter Odell, a De Aar driver until that...
Feb 20, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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Breva liked Robert F's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.
[PEDANT ALERT] That's Tenterden, not Bodiam
Feb 20, 2026 at 5:20 PM -
Breva liked 35B's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I'm not sure that the local politics are as simple as that - or that the territory was so benign before the previous errors.
Feb 19, 2026 at 4:33 PM -
Breva replied to the thread Photographing steam in the Karoo.
Great! I remember those telegraph poles, filled with weaver birds nests :-)
Feb 19, 2026 at 11:59 AM -
Breva liked flying scotsman123's post in the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.
GWR Hawksworth inspection saloon 80975 has arrived at GWSR from Llangollen this week: [ATTACH] Soon to be available for all the usual private hire type things you might expect, just needs some light refurbishing and an operational methodology...
Feb 17, 2026
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Breva liked pmh_74's post in the thread Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
I'm glad you think so, because in my experience directors and trustees of heritage railways, across the country, are almost all volunteers. Managers is another matter; if you need someone to run the thing 7 days a week then it stands to reason...
Feb 17, 2026
