I've been told I may have attended one of the events in 1975, but I'd have been a babe in arms so certainly don't have any recollection of it. I...
I note that it says "The Southern Region never used AC Traction". Maybe not, but the LBSCR did. And it had powers to electrify its whole network...
Streamlined Thompson A1/1? (More of a neverwazza rather than extinct, I grant)
Per Wikipedia, the LSWR system was based on order numbers - a locomotive class would be named after the order number for the first batch. The...
Or a new build 10203 - that would, after all, have been an impeccably Southern design!
Wide chufferitis?
In preservation, it's often "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice".
I remember reading a similar article in one of the magazines opining that the ideal bulk buy for heritage lines was a batch of 0-6-0 tender...
Or to Viscount Churchill (pre-rebuild, of course). After all, there's already a Star in existence, but there isn't a Bear...
I'd guess class 70 electric locos -- without the war, a lot more of the network would have been electrified by 1945.
In one of HAV Bulleid's books, he describes the Leader as "a sophisticated Garratt" -- and then in a later book apologises for it, so I think he...
New-build Facebook group incoming in 3...2...1... :p Not sure what's happened to the tender, though. It looks rather flat -- is it 2'3.5" gauge,...
A year or so ago there were certainly preparations afoot to reinstate the other missing bridge, to improve access for motorised vehicles along the...
IIRC, that one didn't work out because of electrical interference regulations - if they'd kept the original motor generator it would have been...
The idea was considered for the Hastings line as an alternative to electrification - Pacer bodies on Hastings DEMU chassis, hauled by class 33s.
I remember when reading O S Nock's British Locomotives of the 20th Century, he mentioned that he'd been unable to find any contemporary accounts...
My recollections from my reading are that the LSWR chose third rail for a degree of compatibility with the District Line, because they'd have to...
Gresley did propose rebuilding an EF1 as a diesel-electric freight loco in 1928, but according to lner.info the project was cancelled when...
Going the other way, it would have been interesting to see if the Paget sleeve-valve locomotive could have been made to work in preservation....
Kerosene Castle is still around, and in need of a replacement engine. Maybe now's the time to make it into Thorium Castle...
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