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Well, the SMR have gone for a new-build hybrid design....
This is called "reverse engineering". You're welcome.
There are plenty copies of 8Fs in Britain.
Well there's also HM courts bankruptcy proceedings, which I fear Mr Reader will eventually be party to...
How can something be very unique? It is either unique, or it isn't!
Don't the NYMR prefer Southern engines though?
You've got your maths completely wrong, I'm afraid. Assuming that failure rate of one gauge is independent of the failure rate of the other one...
It looks exactly the same as all the other GWR 4-6-0s though...
Yeah I get it. Everyone wants to own a loco and say "that's mine" - even if it's only a little one. Or not working. It's why there are so many...
At some point any intransient owner will naturally cease to be able to be intransient.
What use would it be to a preserved line? Not much I would think. Not as good as a class 08 diesel for shunting. Not powerful enough or fast...
Well, I'd love to see a Royal Scot anyway. You could number it 6171, paint it LMS red and call it The Royal Regiment of Scotland and have a big...
Well you could take a Patriot boiler, put it on a new chassis and give the Patriot chassis a Royal Scot style boiler, and then you'd have a...
Don't forget that 4Fs, which had 5'3" drivers (nominal) had some mixed traffic ability too; I think this would have been used more in their...
As a historian, generally looking for information on operations, one has to look at a photograph and consider why the photographer used his silver...
Well she was never in good condition... AFAIK there was a lot of restoration work to get her from Barry condition to running, and the amount of...
Kinchley Lane is just about what you'll end up with then. It's bad enough on gala days now as it is. Woodthorpe was good in the mornings, but...
An A5 would have a historical connection with today's preserved GCR and would be efficient for heritage operations, unlike other new build pacific...
The surviving O4 No. 63601 is part of the national collection. The National collection such as it is over-represents pre-grouping passenger...
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