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Johnb liked lostlogin's post in the thread Fire Risk.
Even replacing by diesel may not be straight forward as volunteers often book long in advance and those volunteers may only be passed for steam and not diesel. With the steam ban operating departments are at short notice having to find crews...
Aug 11, 2026 at 8:26 AM -
Johnb liked NathanP's post in the thread Fire Risk.
Bo'ness still steam as well. I was there on Thursday. Spent last week in Linlithgow and it rained every day. Thick green grass on the fields as well, I'd forgotten what green grass looked like!
Aug 11, 2026 at 8:25 AM -
Johnb liked Britfoamer's post in the thread Fire Risk.
Having been a formulary chemist in water based cleaning in the past, we had a good saying - "Save water - dilute it!"
Aug 10, 2026 at 9:58 PM -
Johnb liked torgormaig's post in the thread Fire Risk.
Yes and yes. Very wet up here last week with plenty of "liquid sunshine". Not much that could be set fire to around here. Good to enjoy some of the real stuff (sunshine) today. Peter in Fort William
Aug 10, 2026 at 6:18 PM -
Johnb replied to the thread 6024 King Edward 1.
The livery is wrong for a double chimney King so that doesn’t matter
Aug 8, 2026 at 11:09 AM -
Johnb liked 2857Harry's post in the thread SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.
75069 returned in December 2018, as a complete engine, and has been used extensively since. It doesn’t matter how many times you overhaul, etc and how much the job is done, you still need the regular V&P work, etc. So it needs to be limited...
Aug 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM -
Johnb replied to the thread SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions.
Zero chance of that I would have thought. It’s not registered with WC, there’s the cost of getting it up there and would the support crew want to do it? At least a week away from home sleeping in the support coach wouldn’t be much fun.
Aug 6, 2026 at 6:17 PM
