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  1. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui burnham-t în subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    I'd agree, although I wonder how much the loco changed (on the Trigger's broom principle) between the completion of the Lewes & East Grinstead contract and its final withdrawal from industrial service?

    2 Mar 2026 la 10:00

  2. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui 35B în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    The idea is that value corresponds to acreage, so @lynbarn isn’t completely wrong there. However, the issues around tax mean that the proposal is very unlikely fly.

    2 Mar 2026 la 09:58

  3. lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    Just looking at the Facebook page for Sharpthorn, I think you might find it will require much more work than has been realised so far, which begs the question, just how far do you go with a project like this?...

    2 Mar 2026 la 01:03

  4. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui WorkingPressure225 în subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    There’s currently a group doing exactly that, with the intention being to put it on display in Steamworks. They are on Facebook but the page hasn’t had a post for about 10 months. I did some prep work on it a couple of years ago as part of the...

    2 Mar 2026 la 00:53

  5. lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Yes, that would be the better way to go about it if we couldn't purchase the trackbed straight away. I only suggested the above in light of the fact that some farmers would have been forced to sell some of their land to come under the 100-acre...

    2 Mar 2026 la 00:51

  6. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui The Dainton Banker în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Better the other way round, surely ? i.e. lease the trackbed off the farmers. A long lease would protect the railway's interest but also give the farmer an extra income stream while enabling them to easily recover their land at little cost should...

    2 Mar 2026 la 00:45

  7. lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    I am only quoting what I was told by some of the staff at the NRM a few years back. I think the FR said pretty much the same about the Double Fairlie now at the NRM, and as it turned out, they now have two new Fairlies since that was said and...

    1 Mar 2026 la 20:16

  8. lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    That, of course, is the problem for all heritage steam locomotives; eventually, we discussed this on the Lynton and Barnstaple thread many years ago about LEW. If it were ever found, the conclusion was, I think we would be better off building a...

    1 Mar 2026 la 20:04

  9. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui andrewtoplis în subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    I think the amount of work is very high, lots of original material would be lost and the loco when done is only very small, so not much use! This makes it almost impossible to prioritise it over other locos which would be better choices. It was...

    1 Mar 2026 la 19:51

  10. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui Big Al în subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    Although I agree that my comment was not clear, I was not levelling any criticism specifically at the Bluebell Railway. It was a wider point about the arguably good situation where there are many locomotives that have been saved from the...

    1 Mar 2026 la 19:50

  11. lynbarn a răspuns la subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    With this government playing silly buggers with farmers (don't think for one moment that their policy regarding taxing the size of farm has gone away), the trust could be a saviour for some local North Devon farms, if it had the money to do so....

    1 Mar 2026 la 19:45

  12. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui Old Kent Biker în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    The L&BRT can only (CPOs excepted, but that is a whole new can of worms and not feasible here and now) buy land that the current owners are willing and able to sell. This can take years of patient, positive and constructive engagement. One piece...

    1 Mar 2026 la 19:30

  13. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui RailWest în subiectul Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    True, but.... from reading the ENPA Report I sensed an element of "outwith the original" as well. The CFL proposal would have involved building on land that AIUI was never part of the original railway's ownership, but was an 'extra' that was...

    1 Mar 2026 la 19:29

  14. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui Mark Thompson în subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    How about a Billinton cab and chimney, gamboge livery, and a painted name?;):eek::Drool: (Ducks to avoid incoming Swindon paperweight)

    28 Feb 2026 la 21:24

  15. lynbarn a plăcut postul lui Jamessquared în subiectul Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    "Too many locos" is I think being harsh. The collection exists both to provide operational locos, and to be displayed when locos are out of traffic. It isn't there just to provide the smallest possible number of locos necessary to run the...

    28 Feb 2026 la 16:49
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