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    Kent & East Sussex Railway

    Not as grim as the ‘bucket and chuck it’ at Rolvenden when I joined in 1979. It was a Cleaner’s weekend job to empty it into a ditch, by which...
    Beitrag von: howard, 19 April 2023 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Kent & East Sussex Railway

    Fireline is correct. One point a number of people have suggested is lack of crew familiar with certain locos. Unless it has all changed in the...
    Beitrag von: howard, 5 Dezember 2022 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    At one time the railway on which I used to volunteer had a new GM who was obviously used to telling his staff to jump and to them asking how high....
    Beitrag von: howard, 6 September 2022 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    The Beverley Army Transport Museum

    I went to the Beverley museum sometime in the early eighties. The ship I was Second Engineer on was in dry dock in Immingham and I wanted to see...
    Beitrag von: howard, 16 August 2022 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    The Beverley Army Transport Museum

    Beitrag von: howard, 16 August 2022 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Mulberry Harbours

    There is a phoenix cassion off Littlestone on Sea, Kent. It's a scheduled ancient monument.
    Beitrag von: howard, 20 Juli 2022 im Forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Mulberry Harbours

    Beitrag von: howard, 20 Juli 2022 im Forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Notice given of plan to dismantle Ramsgate’s historic steam tug Cervia and sell off parts

    I think you will find that it is a disused and inoperable dry dock.
    Beitrag von: howard, 24 Juni 2022 im Forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Rother Valley Railway

    Are you likely to be asked to vote?
    Beitrag von: howard, 12 April 2021 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Isle of Wight Steam Railway

    The last time that I went to the IoW St Johns yard was full of 02s. Mind you I travelled over on PS Ryde so it was some time ago.
    Beitrag von: howard, 14 Februar 2021 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    The sanders on some but possibly not all (I can’t remember) of the GWR locos that I have fired or driven were gravity fed, via a tube within a...
    Beitrag von: howard, 1 Februar 2021 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    At least she would have probably had decent sanders, not like those awful GWR gravity things.
    Beitrag von: howard, 30 Januar 2021 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Isle of Wight Steam Railway

    I managed to drive seven of them on the K&ESR and they were all different in some way, sometimes startlingly so.
    Beitrag von: howard, 21 Januar 2021 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Isle of Wight Steam Railway

    I’ve not driven a K&ESR Terrier for some time but both were air braked. One of them was always fitted with a Westinghouse driver’s valve and a...
    Beitrag von: howard, 21 Januar 2021 im Forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK