I've been told I may have attended one of the events in 1975, but I'd have been a babe in arms so certainly don't have any recollection of it. I...
I note that it says "The Southern Region never used AC Traction". Maybe not, but the LBSCR did. And it had powers to electrify its whole network...
Streamlined Thompson A1/1? (More of a neverwazza rather than extinct, I grant)
Per Wikipedia, the LSWR system was based on order numbers - a locomotive class would be named after the order number for the first batch. The...
Or a new build 10203 - that would, after all, have been an impeccably Southern design!
Wide chufferitis?
In preservation, it's often "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice".
I remember reading a similar article in one of the magazines opining that the ideal bulk buy for heritage lines was a batch of 0-6-0 tender...
Or to Viscount Churchill (pre-rebuild, of course). After all, there's already a Star in existence, but there isn't a Bear...
I'd guess class 70 electric locos -- without the war, a lot more of the network would have been electrified by 1945.
In one of HAV Bulleid's books, he describes the Leader as "a sophisticated Garratt" -- and then in a later book apologises for it, so I think he...
New-build Facebook group incoming in 3...2...1... :p Not sure what's happened to the tender, though. It looks rather flat -- is it 2'3.5" gauge,...
A year or so ago there were certainly preparations afoot to reinstate the other missing bridge, to improve access for motorised vehicles along the...
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