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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    My own conclusion is that I would not be starry eyed about Apple/MIcrosoft/Google but actually you have to have an operating system. None are...
    Post by: Hirn, Apr 22, 2024 at 12:59 PM in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    567 Victorian 4-4-0 New Build

    Post by: Hirn, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:24 PM in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    Would it be wrong to infer that improved bogies - Commonwealth and as later developed - should clear Mark BR carriages for running now for 100...
    Post by: Hirn, Apr 20, 2024 at 4:06 PM in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    This ia another point I have wondered about - in particular in connection with the new build 47xx, the large boilered GWR 2-8-0, 5ft 8in driving...
    Post by: Hirn, Apr 19, 2024 at 12:43 PM in forum: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    I also would be interested to know of a report or simply any more details. There seems to be a deafening silence on quite what the considerations...
    Post by: Hirn, Apr 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM in forum: Steam Traction
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    BR Standard class 6 No. 72010 'Hengist' and Clan Discussion Thread

    There is recurrently valuable stuff in the remarks when people rose on discussion after the papers were delivered to the Engineering Institutions....
    Post by: Hirn, Apr 18, 2024 at 8:49 AM in forum: Steam Traction
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    Something like this happened when Chapelon died: he had provided for his papers including everything that would have been included in the never...
    Post by: Hirn, Apr 17, 2024 at 2:04 PM in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development

    From a slightly different point of view: I have always been concerned that to claim gift aid in conjunction with a ticket sale would over egg...
    Post by: Hirn, Apr 17, 2024 at 12:45 PM in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Swanage Railway General Discussion

    Always remember not having enough cash to buy something at Sheffield Park and feeling rather embarassed - I think on the up platform - so it was...
    Post by: Hirn, Mar 2, 2024 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    Thank you indeed, much appreciated. Both for the photograph itself - including the stay on the left hand side which gives scale to the picture...
    Post by: Hirn, Mar 2, 2024 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    I would be cautious of taking GPS figures to be quite precisely accurate. There was the occasion in Germany when the German high speed, three...
    Post by: Hirn, Feb 21, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Boilers with flue tubes but no superheater elements.

    Very interested by this: I had been told by someone particularly well informed that even draught through all the the tubes was not a given but got...
    Post by: Hirn, Feb 20, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Swanage Railway General Discussion

    There is something to see in the goods shed. You might argue wether there is a better romantic ruin with a legend than Corfe Castle but the way it...
    Post by: Hirn, Feb 14, 2024 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Swanage Railway General Discussion

    If one of the Beattie well tanks could be borrowed too they would make a nice ensemble. About he only thing that could give you a reservation...
    Post by: Hirn, Feb 14, 2024 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Jubilees (plus other off topic meanderings which includes cats, stone roses and commers)

    What a perceptive idea! Aesthetically before 1903 under Jonson the old Midland Railway was something quite remarkable and might well have...
    Post by: Hirn, Feb 3, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction