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Recent Content by Jimc

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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    And, I fear, are just reducing their credibility by making 2 and 2 equal 22 and demonstrating ignorance of the issues. Maintaining a big website,...
    Post by: Jimc, Mar 22, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    If you think steam has problems you should study the situation with freight traffic, especially containers. Gauging is now managed with great...
    Post by: Jimc, Mar 9, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    7027 Thornbury Castle

    Of course it might be as simple as not wanting to pay rent...
    Post by: Jimc, Mar 7, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    A Southern Railway query

    Yes. Don't know how the hell I managed that seeing as I had Holcroft's book open in front of me. Serve me right for straying south! Reckon Neil...
    Post by: Jimc, Mar 1, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    A Southern Railway query

    The second order of S15s was called A16 in the LSWRs eccentric system, but that, according to the not very reliable Wikipedia was 502–506. LSWR...
    Post by: Jimc, Mar 1, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Not really. Its at Tyseley now and IIRC was originally at Llangollen with a short interval at Leaky Finders. Although its under the GWS umbrella...
    Post by: Jimc, Feb 2, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Seems to me for a first pass at a distinctive mid Victorian type its hard to go past the Bloomer, and if that can't find funds to completion its...
    Post by: Jimc, Jan 12, 2025 in forum: Steam Traction
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    BR Standard class - practice and performance

    To my mind the problem with the standards was complacency. You can see it in Cox' books. He seems quite convinced that steam locomotive design had...
    Post by: Jimc, Dec 17, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    I rather doubt that anyone is getting rich on that.
    Post by: Jimc, Dec 1, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    There's a point of view that engaging in threads like this is akin to mud wrestling with a pig. Such engagement may only lead to stress and abuse...
    Post by: Jimc, Nov 13, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    New Build Night Owl - 4709 Begins

    There is and there isn't. The Castle boiler is basically a thinner barreled 47 boiler on the same firebox. The original studies for what became...
    Post by: Jimc, Nov 5, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Please no... The bloody process drags on long enough already. If you allow for endless reworking of tenders nothing would ever get past the tender...
    Post by: Jimc, Oct 26, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    IME its not unusual for *no* tender to fulfil all the criteria, so there has to be some flexibility. Its all part of the scoring and weighting Tom...
    Post by: Jimc, Oct 26, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Not to mention that your own auditors (or worse) will descend on you if you break the procurement law. You absolutely cannot just award it to who...
    Post by: Jimc, Oct 26, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Nunney Castle

    Oh indeed it was - the GWR General appendix to the rule book has no less than 6 pages on restrictions on various types of carriage, both within...
    Post by: Jimc, Oct 19, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction