It’s had ten years of rail tours. Ten years of merchandise sales. Ten years of visits across the country where preserved railways have lined up...
Did you like it, I hesitate to ask…!
Yes - and I hope everyone notes the suitable epitaph I wrote at the end emphasising the changes being made to the design are positive choices that...
But ultimately irrelevant. If you believe the ninth wheel records every mile travelled, and the chronograph records onto the paper every second,...
Find me one steam locomotive speed record where it was dead level, with a run done in either direction. I’ll wait. Here we go…;) Which ones do...
“New evidence” - quite! Old evidence reinterpreted, though I know of a third researcher doing their own analysis and I delight in knowing that...
This is pure theatre for the purpose of building a T1, to be frank. There are virtually no sections of track in the United States safe enough for...
Background: David Andrews and I both bought a load of ex-LNER dynamometer rolls over the last two years (he has subsequently donated his, post...
Not in LNER matters, apparently (eg: Great Northern).
No, it was definitely financial by the time we get to the end of steam. For sure, engineering and running departments had more of a say during...
Scrapping dates are not relevant to the question of a locomotives ability to do a job or perceived performance values. Particularly as scrapping...
I don’t know myself. I have models of both and examining them together I can see the 8F origins as a basis. It’s very obviously not an identical...
I don’t know, I am weary (as I am sure all of you are) with how threads get derailed every time I appear. TBH, Nat Pres has done well out of my...
The usual suspects have now all turned up, of course, adding nothing to the topic at hand, but all passing comment on me. Funny that....
I put it to you 35B that we - always - played the ball, rather than the man. Sometimes forcefully, for sure, and if you felt upset by anything I...
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