I’m a great believer in fixed price contracts but the spec has to be good and explicit. I also endeavour to get a price for possible extras that...
You can go out and buy a chainsaw and use it at home without any training or qualification but try doing the same on the railway and watch HSE...
Just wondering if any railways are contemplating running Santa specials this year or are all writing them off?
I started to type something similar but then abandoned it. Steel will definitely corrode faster than iron and anyone with an inside cylindered...
Deleted. I duplicated Abedare’s recommended supplier (LBBC) without realising as I know them as Leeds &Bradford Boiler Co.
Most smaller industrial locos aren’t fitted with brick arches. It’s usually only when you get to 16” cylinders and above that they become more of...
I suggest it relies on the exemption contained in the regs (clause 3.3.g) which exempts a person from wearing a face covering. "where a person is...
The NYMR is rail connected and hires in tampers from time to time. They usually arrive by road. The comments about GWSR ride quality compared with...
As far as I'm aware, it is a simple round trip with no break of journey at any other station. The walk on the rail trail would have to be there...
As a retired chartered mechanical engineer my biggest gripe is that todays young engineers know little about practical engineering. When I...
Slight correction; the plan is to run the services from Grosmont to milepost 18 , giving a 6 mile return trip. Trains will be top and tailed as...
As we've resurrected this thread, I've set fire to my overalls on two occasions during my life so I know how easily it can happen, even when you...
That must have been one heck of a car boot to carry six bronze axleboxes. At a guess, probably half a ton. A van, possibly.
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