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    2009 - A difficult year for the WHHR?

    There is a lot of serious work going on about removing slate waste from Bl. Ffest. by standard gauge -- to the accompaniment, naturally, of local...
    Post by: snowtownbob, Jan 9, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    2009 - A difficult year for the WHHR?

    Most of the traffic congestion in Port is caused by no-one wanting to drive at more than walking speed past the line of parked cars in the High...
    Post by: snowtownbob, Jan 6, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Project X

    Ashing out will be a problem, unless it is intended to be oil fired. Paraphrasing Professor Tuplin, steam engine designers understimated the...
    Post by: snowtownbob, Jan 2, 2009 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    2009 - A difficult year for the WHHR?

    Call me an old cynic if you will, but every time I hear someone use the phrase 'believe it's only right...' I hear the sound of axes grinding in...
    Post by: snowtownbob, Dec 26, 2008 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Loco seen on M6 today.

    Pipe dreaming and MAJOR engineering, but pony trucks fore and aft and the resulting 60cm gauge Mikado could be as useful as the Harz metre gauge...
    Post by: snowtownbob, Nov 23, 2008 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways