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  1. jnc liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    That would be a rarity! Tom

    Sep 4, 2026 at 10:11 PM

  2. jnc liked Mark Thompson's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    I'm very much looking forward to seeing how the logistics of getting the deck to that location plays out. Are there any other major structures between this and bridge 12, does anyone recall? "The life expired abutments are now waiting processing...

    Sep 4, 2026 at 8:14 PM

  3. jnc replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Yes; there is a series of posts about this bridge; an earlier one shows the start of the replacement span being fabricated. Noel

    Sep 4, 2026 at 5:58 PM

  4. jnc liked Steve's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    There would need to be some alteration to the locos brake pipework to provide a steam supply for the tender. Basically it would be simply tee-ing into the feed to the brake cylinder and providing the additional pipework, support and connections....

    Sep 4, 2026 at 5:45 PM

  5. jnc liked Jamessquared's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    For an experiment under controlled conditions, nothing to stop you temporarily disabling the tender brakes for the duration of the swap. The crews were hand-picked and could be briefed for the reduced braking performance light engine; and with a...

    Sep 4, 2026 at 3:22 PM

  6. jnc replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    They have a Web-site here; the written content is mostly the usual useless marketing pfaff which could have been written by a particularly bad AI (Douglas Adams was clearly wrong about who'd be first on the B ark; the author of this lot would...

    Sep 4, 2026 at 10:16 AM

  7. jnc liked mdewell's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    And there was me thinking you legal types preferred to use a dozen words where one will do. ;):D

    Sep 4, 2026 at 9:52 AM

  8. jnc liked Robin Moira White's post in the thread Kent & East Sussex Railway.

    IMHO Q’s WRT the K&ESR & RVR R OK.

    Sep 4, 2026 at 9:50 AM

  9. jnc liked Fireline's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    When we built the first extension, from Bodiam headshunt to just short of Udiam Farm, the stone did indeed come in to Rye Harbour. Then it was brought by lorry directly to a convenient location on the works. I was there one day we ballasted, and...

    Sep 4, 2026 at 9:49 AM

  10. jnc replied to the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    The OP might have only been wondering if the original report ("I believe the ballast ... came from a quarry in the west of Scotland by ship to Rye Harbour then by lorry") was accurate, about Rye. Noel

    Sep 3, 2026 at 11:16 PM

  11. jnc liked Mark Thompson's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    If the ballast is coming in via the network, its origins are pretty much immaterial.

    Sep 3, 2026 at 11:12 PM

  12. jnc replied to the thread GWSR General Discussion and Operations.

    The Civil Engineering blog a while back (14 July 2025) observed that some were removed because they had "reach[ed the] end of their life": CRC - Pine tree removal. Also, for those who are missing their weekly 'hit' of "Heritage Herald", last...

    Sep 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM

  13. jnc liked Dumb buffer's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    BR managed it during the loco exchanges where they fitted a Stanier tender to a bullied Pacific so it could use water troughs. I would have thought water connections standard now and you may need a new connector bar but not impossible. Picture...

    Sep 3, 2026 at 10:14 PM

  14. jnc liked Spamcan81's post in the thread North Yorkshire Moors Railway General Discussion.

    I stand to be corrected but I don’t think it’s as simple as just connecting a tender from loco type A to loco type B, especially if they are from different railways.

    Sep 3, 2026 at 9:51 PM

  15. jnc liked Dunfanaghy Road's post in the thread Rother Valley Railway.

    Yeoman Bridge and one of her sisters used to deliver to Southampton Western Docks from Glensanda. They got around, anywhere from the North Sa to North America. My only query about this is this: could Rye handle a ship this big? Pat

    Sep 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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