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  1. Johnb liked Robin's post in the thread SVR General Discussion.

    In fairness, the 4150 Fund has issued monthly restoration updates and annual newsletters on their website in the same way as the 82045 Fund does. http://www.4150.org.uk/4150_news.html It's probably gone under the radar on here because nobody...

    Jul 6, 2026 at 6:19 PM

  2. Johnb replied to the thread SVR General Discussion.

    Its more interesting for me because its largely been done under the radar, no reports on progress like the other locos you mentioned just suddenly appearing. What coaching stock it looks right with depends on the livery, hopefully it will be...

    Jul 6, 2026 at 2:57 PM

  3. Johnb liked John Petley's post in the thread SVR General Discussion.

    The owning group must be very pleased by the positive reaction to 4150's return to steam. It would be so easy to say, "Oh, it's just another Large Prairie - ridden behind plenty of them, photographed plenty of them", etc. True, 4150 is the...

    Jul 6, 2026 at 2:26 PM

  4. Johnb replied to the thread RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.

    There is an old saying when thing go right you tell a couple of people, when they go wrong you tell everyone. In the case of the Tynesider things went wrong and it’s created a lot of comment but let’s look back at the Great Britain a complex...

    Jul 5, 2026 at 10:46 AM

  5. Johnb replied to the thread RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.

    Unfortunately the criticism is aimed at the wrong target. When things go wrong and it looks as if there were problems with the service trains too, our threadbare rail network seems unable to cope with it. In addition to that I do wonder about how...

    Jul 5, 2026 at 9:34 AM

  6. Johnb liked henrywinskill's post in the thread RTC: Tynesider - 4/7/26.

    Dont fancy the steel toe capped boots but the stilettoes would be a change. lol:eek::eek::eek:

    Jul 4, 2026 at 10:06 PM

  7. Johnb liked steam_mad's post in the thread No 246 Morayshire.

    [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Re-wheeled this week at Bo’ness; boiler now in the final stages at LMS too!

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  8. Johnb replied to the thread SVR General Discussion.

    Seems a fairly sensible decision as this country was never invaded

    Jul 4, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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