Apologies, but living in Germany, I'm not totally up to date on the preservation scene. However, I understood that John Cameron's number 9 would...
I remember being uncomfortably close to oa similar flashover in Crewe station - I'd guess it was late in 1963. A Duchess arrived with a train from...
Mornin' all. Does anyone here know when the first yellow stripes were actually applied? I see above that a Duchess was shot with stripes on...
Tractive effort is usually quoted at 85 % b.p.; does this actually mean that a loco with 100 % b.p. has a nominal t.e. 17.6 % higher? This is...
Thanks Paul for the link; I see the Bluebell's line is distinctly trickier than the SVR, even excluding Imberhorne.
Like many "ex-pats", I am unfamiliar with the EG extension's gradients. But I have in the past visited the SVR to be amazed that they expected an...
I would very much doubt that any loco owner is aiming to "break even"; perhaps not to spend too much, but that's not quite the same thing. I...
That's an interesting site! I have been trying to find a list of the engines stabled at 10A as steam finished, but so far without any luck. You...
Yes, known as the 'jockey' valve; afair, it involved closing the regulator, then opening it just a crack against a stop. But not having actually...
Depends what you mean by "regular". I was all over the whole system, and there were steam locos in action from Weymouth to Aberdeen in those days....
As a steam pursuer in the early 1960s, I was once on board the 19.15 Paddington-Hereford on a Friday, when the Hymek failed at reading, to be...
As a cleaner at Crewe South, I fired some of these ex-Crostis which, afair, were still in fact classified as class 9F (I certainly never heard...
Can't say anything about preservation, but as a passed cleaner a Crewe South I was lucky enough to fire one of them on the 01.10 Crewe SSM to...
On a different subject, as a fireman at 10A when the steam loco was so unceremoniously disposed of, I have been trying to get hold of a list of...
Greetings from Germany. I am extremely upset that this of all sites should use US-English, when the railways were invented in Britian. I don't...
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