[ATTACH] My recollection is that all the MSC brake vans were painted gloss black. Perhaps the black, as it weathered, gave the appearance of dark...
Easy enough but not as easy as it used to be. You used to be able to change from Eurostar to a local train which stopped at Noyelles at Calais...
A safety measure in the event of a derailment on the bridge. Ray.
I was surprised to read this on the U.S. based Narrow Gauge Discussion Group https://ngdiscussion.net/phorum/read.php?1,481156,481528#msg-481528...
New Year's Day saw a special train chartered by the IoM Steam Railway Supporters Association operate to Port Erin and back to celebrate the 60th...
W22 started its preservation 'life' in 1967 at the SVR. before going to Didcot in 1978. Perhaps it was towed over B.R. rather than low-loaded. Ray.
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Gents, perhaps it's time to create a new thread for this discussion at https://www.national-preservation.com/forums/national-railway-museum.53/...
Remember the batch of dodgy boiler rivets where the heads could be sheared of with a glancing hammer blow? Ray.
Not "off topic" at all - in fact very relevant to posts further 'up thread'. Thanks for posting. Ray.
Not quite an austerity but a Peckett was painted up in M&GN livery at Sheringham way back in 1971. Ray.[ATTACH]
The other C1 boiler was scrapped many years ago maybe at Steam and Sail? Of the 2 remaining boilers one was believed to be from a T1 and the...
Three of the IoM coaches F6,F37 and F38 have been or are returning to the Island. F68 restored and mounted on 2'g. bogies in in the VoR museum....
Scheid namen met een komma.
