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Flying Phil attached a file to the thread 34039 Boscastle WC class.
Boscastle's boiler has returned to the GCR! [ATTACH]
Jun 8, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Flying Phil replied to the thread Bulleid Pacifics - Past or Present.
A technical question for the knowing collective on here. There has been an "interesting" chat about Bulleid Pacific casing fires. Many writers, over the years, have said it is due to oil leaking from the oil bath. Another theory is that it is due...
Jun 7, 2025 at 10:13 AM -
Flying Phil attached a file to the thread 34039 Boscastle WC class.
We also had our new display panels on show for the first time on Loughborough Platform over the 1940's weekend.[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] I hadn't realised quite how big they were and we had to rapidly and carefully slice them to get...
Jun 3, 2025
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Flying Phil liked Kingscross's post in the thread French steam.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Just back from a superb day in the Auvergne, with a steam hauled train (tailed by a BB diesel) from Clermont Ferrand up the sadly truncated Mont Dore branch...
Jun 3, 2025
