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الأنشطة الأخيرة الخاصة بـ 21B

  1. أعجب 21B بمشاركة Jamessquared' في موضوع Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).

    I think you are dancing on a pinhead here. Cook (who was there, unlike both you and Nock!) says: Then Collett decided that it would be better to do any further conversions on relatively newer engines in which naturally the framing would be in...

    ‏29 ديسمبر 2025 في 7:28 مساءاً
  2. أعجب 21B بمشاركة S.A.C. Martin' في موضوع Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).

    I just want to clear up something: I passed my “upgrade” not my “Viva” - it is still “Mr” and not “Doc” Martin, I am afraid, but I am in final write up! Mr, and no, but you are really taking issue with something that shouldn’t be so big a...

    ‏29 ديسمبر 2025 في 7:27 مساءاً
  3. أعجب 21B بمشاركة 35B' في موضوع Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).

    And in a happy juxtaposition of operational need and accounting practice, it was possible to frame this as a “repair” rather than a new investment. Or, in other words, just the same sleight of hand and exercise in judgment that businesses the...

    ‏29 ديسمبر 2025 في 7:27 مساءاً
  4. أعجب 21B بمشاركة Stinch' في موضوع Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.

    A CP kind of night tonight :)

    ‏27 ديسمبر 2025 في 7:03 مساءاً
  5. المشاركة في موضوع Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    Pro Probably not in 2026. It cannot leave the railway for the first two years of its ticket.

    ‏26 ديسمبر 2025 في 11:32 مساءاً
  6. المشاركة في موضوع Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).

    I completely agree. There is a tendency to romanticise railways to the point where it is forgotten that they were businesses. Ones which in the case of the GWR were accustomed to paying a dividend

    ‏26 ديسمبر 2025 في 11:14 مساءاً