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    Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway

    Love of money is the problem. Money is a useful tool though it is sadly too prone to abuse.
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏1 ماي 2025 في منتدى: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    Flying Scotsman

    Built by Bill Stewart at the Washington Iron Works and completed in 1976 and built to scale, shall we say 3" to the foot rather than the usual 4....
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏14 مارس 2025 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    The Webb 3 cylinder compound and use of slip eccentric valve gear for the low pressure cylinder is a little peculiar in that the Dreadnought Class...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏22 فبراير 2025 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Sandringham New Build(s)

    Divided drive on a B17/Sandringham, unified on a D49 and other Gresley 3-cylinder types. Axles cranked in order to give clearance to connecting...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏24 جويلية 2024 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏1 نوفمبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The Nord 4-6-0 SNCF 240D (we used to have one, it was located at the Nene Valley Railway) was a Du Bousquet engine and certainly not a Chapelon,...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏31 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The original Pacifics were costed at a few hundred pounds each at the time. They were complicated largely due to French drawing office practice....
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏31 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The French started experimenting with railway electrification in the early years of the twentieth century. At First came the phase of addressing...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏31 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    You need to add the 90 GELSA locomotives built for Brazil. So I think that there were 548 but I could be wrong. He produced a range of designs of...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏31 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    The 141P class numbered 318 engines and were produced by seven builders. The 4-240A and 5-240P numbered 37 engines in total. So far as Pacifics...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏31 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    A simple posting along the lines of "I passed this on in good faith from etc. etc. -----" might be in order. This, shall we call it malicious...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏30 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Tornado

    I suspect that we will never see any accountability on the part of those making what were fictitious allegations w.r.t. this matter.
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏30 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    Gresley and Chapelon were very different people. Gresley was born in 1876, attended Marlborough College, served an apprenticeship at Crewe and...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏27 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    Chapelon and related Matters

    However Chapelon was a bit of an outlier - his relationship with some of the railway hierarchy wasn't exactly smooth. Prove people wrong and they...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏25 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction
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    P2 Locomotive Company and related matters

    It is difficult enough to obtain car parts in this allegedly post covid world. And the quality of what you do manage to source is open to...
    المشاركة بواسطة: 242A1, ‏20 اكتوبر 2023 في منتدى: Steam Traction