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  1. LMS2968 replied to the thread SVR Autumn Steam Gala.

    I see your Jubilee, and raise you an 8F! [img] 48417 pilots 34039 up Old Hill Bank with a Footex Southampton - Birmingham 27-04-63 Michael Mensing

    Jul 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM

  2. LMS2968 liked Fred Kerr's post in the thread SVR Autumn Steam Gala.

    Sorry about being possibly obtuse. The point was the simple question of whether preservation adopts the principle accepted by LMS2968 (a valid point which I have no problem with) or creates something which might / could have been but...

    Jul 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM

  3. LMS2968 replied to the thread SVR Autumn Steam Gala.

    At least, we agree to disagree like gentlemen should!

    Jul 9, 2025 at 5:31 PM

  4. LMS2968 replied to the thread SVR Autumn Steam Gala.

    We aren't going to agree on this and we've been through it time and time again. I believe that 'preservation' is about railways and its equipment in the period when they were in common use, i.e. prior to preservation, and is a recording of...

    Jul 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM

  5. LMS2968 replied to the thread SVR Autumn Steam Gala.

    Yes and No. A function of preservation is to represent and recreate history and an accurate presentation plays a part in that. Unfortunately, history is in the eyes of the beholder: what they see is what must have happened, and so history becomes...

    Jul 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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