Being pedantic, it is an air pump as that is what is being pumped and that is how it is referred to. You can't pump a vacuum. :)
The reason Black 5's are more popular than 8F's is probably quite simply because the Railway has always had them 'on the books' with 44767, 44806,...
Er..... please get the facts right, Tom. The D49 Shires were on the drawing board by 1926 with the first entering service in 1927. That was...
According to Wiki (and to save me doing better research at this time of night) the D49’s had a total adhesive weight of 42 tons, the same as the...
D49’s were indeed regular performers. The big difference was that the maximum load without assistance was five coaches and that included B1’s and...
Given good rail conditions, Repton will drag 7 up the hill to Goathland in both directions. However, any reduction in adhesive ratio becomes a...
You couldn’t make it up, could you?
well, there are a theoretical 2365 seats available each day. According to the booking site just now there are still a total of 2024 seats...
Is it the ORR or Network Rail?
If 80135 takes water at Grosmont in the down direction it should be good to get to Pickering if there is no untoward event but it will be close....
There are quite a few experienced people who share that view. I don’t think the Schools is the NYMR’s to sell, though.
It could have been. When there were previous problems with the bridge, some 40+ years ago, NYCC argued that the bridge was the responsibility of...
What makes you think that?:)
I’d suggest that the so-called outer stone arches are more to make it look pretty than anything else. The Victorians were fond of decorative...
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