MellishRs letzte Aktivitäten
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MellishR antwortete auf das Thema The Gwili Railway thread.
Quite possibly true, but I was asking what people on here think. And to keep it open I was deliberately not stating any opinion myself.
25 Dezember 2025 um 14:40 -
MellishR gefällt Miffs Beitrag in dem Thema Kent & East Sussex Railway.
More KESR/Col. Stephens prototypical would be using anything but a GWR coach and having the Railcar haul that, I hope it will happen soon :)
25 Dezember 2025 um 14:34 -
MellishR gefällt S.A.C. Martins Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
Edward Thompson’s standardisation programme was predicated on that precisely that basis. Hence why his standardisation programme included a 4-6-0, 2-6-4T, a large 2-6-0, a large 2-8-0 and two Pacific types to do the mainstay of the work going...
25 Dezember 2025 um 08:24 -
MellishR gefällt Jimcs Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
Cook is quite unequivocal about there being a potential saving in upgrading Star to Castle. There was probably no-one better informed on the subject so I'm not going to argue with him. Yes, the Castles were more capable than the Stars, but that...
25 Dezember 2025 um 08:23 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
I suspect you can only answer that question by doing a longitudinal study of what the renewal programme was year by year. The priorities would change over time and also different locos would rise up the list of needing renewal. Some years ago,...
25 Dezember 2025 um 08:13 -
MellishR gefällt RAB3Ls Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
The first Star to Castle rebuild was in 1930. Given that the Stars lasted until 1956, if the reason for rebuilding was financial, why were more Stars not rebuilt as Castles? In fifteen years, starting in1930, there were thirteen rebuilds of...
24 Dezember 2025 um 17:53 -
MellishR gefällt RAB3Ls Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
From "Swindon Steam", page 50: "Contemporarily, Collett was designing the Castles. There was a definite need now for a more powerful express passenger locomotive to relieve the Stars which had been at work for fifteen years......."
24 Dezember 2025 um 17:52 -
MellishR gefällt Jimcs Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
In his book "Swindon Steam", Ken Cook, the GWR's assistant works manager at the time, records that the Star renewals as Castles were done because they considered there would be a saving on boiler maintenance. I imagine that he was focussed on...
24 Dezember 2025 um 17:51 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
I think the same held for the SR. I've mentioned before a case where you can demonstrably show that to be the case, at least in BR(S) days: In a couple of cases, pairs of "long frame" and "short frame" M7s went into the works together, and what...
24 Dezember 2025 um 17:49 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
You're missing the point. I'm not saying that a Castle is just a Star with a larger boiler. Rather, that the Castles were designed to do the same work as a Star but, because they needed to be pushed less hard to do so, then the predicted...
24 Dezember 2025 um 17:49 -
MellishR gefällt huochemis Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
Nearly all (or all?) steam locos built by the Big 4, including Flying Scotsman, the other Gresley Pacifics, the Duchesses, Kings, Merchants Navies etc were treated as renewals, costs being debited to P&L as may have been adjusted by transfers in...
24 Dezember 2025 um 17:47 -
MellishR gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
"Accountants' rebuilds" gets somewhat derided as a concept in railway circles, but I think it made a lot of sense. Essentially the companies had "renewal" accounts and "capital" accounts. The renewal account was to "make as new again". That...
24 Dezember 2025 um 17:46
