Anyone know who the crews were?
IIRC MrN pronounced 2120 edhp for 6024 one night on Hatton coming back from Paddington in October 2002. 475 tons from a standing start at...
That could be a very good idea, Shirley is in excellent condition, and with a bit of thought could be deveoped into an excellent outlet for...
What a shame that all you photters seem to have missed the finale of the evening, featuring 9600 dragging the train up St Andrews bank with only...
Re: Possible Tour With 6201 It is rumoured to be Birmingham New Street to Euston, steam all the way.
If true this is a great pity. The NYMR is a very testing railway and it would have been very interesting to see what the King could have shown...
I believe that the A1 Trust tried this sort of thing and ended up with Joe public all over the railway and in the way of HST's and things. Maybe...
No-one has yet mentioned the fact that they appear to have not been particularly good riding engines, and had something of a habit of knocking the...
Great idea to use a Bulleid, providing the leaking oil bath doesn't set the lagging on fire, that part of the miniature valve motion doesn't bend,...
Spot on Orion. The other thing to bear in mind regarding drivers is that all of the training which you mention cost the French much more than...
I too suspect that it is 6989, and the lone Hawksworth tender in view is probably the one which was detached from 4983/4965 when Tyseley took it...
Checked this out yesterday, definitely nothing at the back of the tender or underneath.
It would perhaps assist this debate if correct chronology were applied. Whatever came after, the plain fact is that the Great Western Railway...
Shame really. All they have done in those 18 months is to put a Scot back on the main line, overhaul an 8F and nearly finish a Black 5.
Why put all that Yorkshire junk on it, it works perfectly well without. If Gresley was even close to right, it took a nice green 4-6-0 number 4079...
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