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Mark Thompsons letzte Aktivitäten

  1. Mark Thompson antwortete auf das Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Not forgetting the transatlantic link to Penn station. Leaving there about quarter to four, Read a magazine and then you're in Baltimore....

    17 Dezember 2025 um 20:59

  2. Mark Thompson gefällt RailWests Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Blimey - that should help pay for the Carriage Shelter 'extra costs' ! Maybe Santa came early after all....:-)

    17 Dezember 2025 um 20:53

  3. Mark Thompson gefällt Old Kent Bikers Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    What is the point of just one heliport? It's a bit like having a railway with only one station. Oh, wait... :)

    17 Dezember 2025 um 20:50

  4. Mark Thompson gefällt Petra Wildes Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I basically agree with Tom. But before abandoning my fantasy heliport suggestion, I realise it missed a trick. Instead of a green fields site, the heliport should be on the foreshore at Lynton. That way the underground-railway connection to it...

    17 Dezember 2025 um 20:50

  5. Mark Thompson gefällt 35Bs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    So, in other words, a set of questions constrained by factors you’ve decided on and fit your vision of what the restored L&B might look like. For those of us not intimately acquainted with the costs of railway preservation, the values wee...

    17 Dezember 2025 um 08:53

  6. Mark Thompson gefällt DaveEs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I really don't understand the idea of what you ask. The L&B is the L&B, for this particular railway I think if its done carefully and right that's enough. If you want a fantasy railway with a collection of stuff from elsewhere, with that amount...

    17 Dezember 2025 um 08:50

  7. Mark Thompson gefällt DaveEs Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Even with a no money limit, I would not close the pub. It's an important community hub now and the railway can sit alongside it quite comfortably and blend in well together. I also would not to over develop the area. It is the gateway to the...

    16 Dezember 2025 um 20:21

  8. Mark Thompson gefällt Meatmans Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I think I can confidently say that I am probably classed as a trouble maker/sh1t stirrer because Im not afraid to question or challenge some decisions all in the name of 'accountability' although some like to call it something else so that it...

    16 Dezember 2025 um 10:00

  9. Mark Thompson gefällt RailWests Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    Rowley Moor farm :-) It is certainly the case that questions have been raised about RMF in the past about its current (non) use as a storage outpost. A bit inefficient in the case of 'active' locos and coaches, if the idea were to be merely to...

    15 Dezember 2025 um 18:58

  10. Mark Thompson gefällt lynbarns Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    This has all the shade of L&BR Co V Nuttells about it :Googleit:

    15 Dezember 2025 um 06:07

  11. Mark Thompson gefällt Jamessquareds Beitrag in dem Thema P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    Firstly, I don’t believe the firehole door is asymmetrically placed (that really would be a turn up for the books!). Rather, it is the staying pattern that is asymmetric. Given that (1) the stays are an integral part of the safe and reliable...

    13 Dezember 2025 um 14:27

  12. Mark Thompson erstellte einen Anhang in dem Thema P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Are you quite sure it's "only 5 stays"?

    IMG_2716 copy-1.jpg IMG_9803.jpeg 13 Dezember 2025 um 09:25

  13. Mark Thompson antwortete auf das Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    The sub base is about the only item not immediately visible, without a degree of judicious prodding. This is not HS2. It is c.150ft of narrow gauge track, laid this century. Make of it what you will. I just know I'm not impressed

    12 Dezember 2025 um 20:11

  14. Mark Thompson gefällt Petra Wildes Beitrag in dem Thema Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    I would rather doubt that give the project update, which says: "This has been a complex project with far more work expected than originally envisaged. As trackwork was removed to enable below ground construction it quickly became evident that...

    12 Dezember 2025 um 20:04

  15. Mark Thompson antwortete auf das Thema P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    That picture makes a very interesting comparison with what has just been delivered to Darlington. The difference in the number of flexible stays on the blackhead is startling, presumably the result of an experience curve? I'd like to know more.

    12 Dezember 2025 um 16:33
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