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Paul42 liked johnofwessex's post in the thread GWR four-cylinder arrangement?.
In 19810/81 I forget when I managed what was then a rare trip on the SS Shieldhall when she was working out of Southampton for Southern Water She has 2x180psi scotch boilers providing steam to 2x800hp triple expansion engines The Chief Engineer...
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Paul42 liked 21B's post in the thread GWR four-cylinder arrangement?.
I really feel like this discussion is trying to argue black is white, but I think it summarises to this: 1. Compounding in the UK context never made any business sense at the time. 2. You could build a 2 cylinder compound engine, but it comes...
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Paul42 liked 21B's post in the thread GWR four-cylinder arrangement?.
The only truly superfluous thing about this thread is this thread. A two cylinder high speed steam engine would never have been permitted by the civil engineers, even assuming any mechanical department were convinced of there being advantages....
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Paul42 liked ross's post in the thread GWR four-cylinder arrangement?.
People are not superfluous, whatever their social standing. However Britain's social history is so vastly different from that of Denmark, to Brits it is hardly believable, despite the 1788 decree ending stavnsbånd, ordinary Danes had so little...
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Paul42 liked 5944's post in the thread Railways and People.
I went to Knebworth House a few years ago when they still had the miniature railway running in the grounds, and they brought out their steam loco for the annual evening BBQ. It was rather warm and the injectors packed up when the loco was halfway...
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Paul42 liked Steve's post in the thread SVR General Discussion.
I have to say that the Incident at the Churnet Valley was almost unique in the lack of speculation or even announcements on what happened. All i have seen is a statement that it was a Swiss cheese situation. I have heard more but it is only...
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Paul42 priljepljuje datoteku u temu Steam and Steeple Cab Electric Locos at the Mariazell Tramway in Austria.
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] A wonderful collection of trams in the shed.
17. Srpanj 2026. u 20:13
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Paul42 priljepljuje datoteku u temu Steam and Steeple Cab Electric Locos at the Mariazell Tramway in Austria.
A selection of my photos. Note reduced on size. [ATTACH][ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
17. Srpanj 2026. u 20:13
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Paul42 liked Fenway's post in the thread Steam and Steeple Cab Electric Locos at the Mariazell Tramway in Austria.
The Museumstramway Mariazell is often overshadowed by the more famous, very long and very mountainous narrow gauge railway (760 mm Bosnian gauge) that leads from St. Pölten to Mariazell. From the remote and inconvienently located Mariazell...
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Paul42 liked Johnb's post in the thread SVR General Discussion.
I would urge anyone to simply ignore any comment on social media that doesn’t come from an official SVR source. Don’t fuel uninformed speculation.
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Paul42 liked 35B's post in the thread SVR General Discussion.
That's fine, but it relies on there being something "official" to fill the void.
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Paul42 liked GWR4707's post in the thread SVR General Discussion.
Indeed a very big problem in the modern world is a strange and rather pathetic obsession that some people seem to have with making people aware that they know things as if it makes them some how important, and thus will be desperate to get...
17. Srpanj 2026. u 14:41
