It would have been one and only still in existence, 33001, on the Bluebell. I love it.
Practically the only way to reopen a Pit is to make it just that, an Open Cast 'Hole in the Ground' - 'Untopping'. These days machinery is so much...
Could survival rate also be influenced by return policy - some railways insisting on return of the watch on retirement and others allowing retired...
We now know a lot more about handling scale effects (although they were not at all unaware of them in the 30's) and how to allow for them....
With respect to Plant, I am a lapsed Waterway Restoration volunteer. The Inland Waterway Association run an insurance scheme for restoration...
I think its worth pointing out, as someone who commuted in the Slam Door era, that lots of people appeared not to be able to close manual doors...
<Points from Lofty Height to the standardised No 34 Birkenhead Compact Oiling Oik>
We are discussing the GWR. Unlike those of inferior railways GWR locomotives were built and operated properly. Access to the motion between visits...
That design was what was fitted from new. The Mk3s only ever had external handles. The Mk3 incidents were initially blamed on drunken passengers...
There is also the issues that: a) The paths exist for a reason, whilst in many cases that reason no longer exists and the path is used for...
As an aside, I take it that you have NOT read Railwaywomen (by my friend Helena Wojtczak, BRs first female guard - who found that she was not the...
Non-railway interjection: IMHO nobody did as much as Lord Dowding - but an awful lot of his involvement was before the shooting started. Many...
Just an odd thought, triggered by a photo in a recently posted link that showed a 'Properly Attired' chap in a suit on East Grinstead (Bluebell)...
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