Yes - 2 miles of level track at Llanberis Lake railway.
The other factor with all the Bulleid pacifics before rebuilding was the uncertainties in valve timings due to the unique valve-gear on these...
No, they didn't! Only about half the line is level. Besides the 1:70 up to Llanuwchllyn, there are several places where the line is going up and...
The North Norfolk Railway has its GE "Quad-art" set which I haven't yet had a ride in, although I rode in similar coaches in the 1950s when they...
There is a book "The Bassett Lowke Story" by Roland Fuller, published in 1984 by New Cavendish Books (ISBN 0 904568 34 2) which has a list of the...
There is a second site www.heritage-railways.com operated by the former webmaster for the HRA. This has a large number of links to many railways,...
The "Search Engine" at the National Railway Museum, York, has a complete run of The Railway Magazine from issue 1. So a request to them for a copy...
My parents were grateful for Thomas the Tank Engine - I got so enthusiastic about reading the books that I very happily learnt to read well before...
Re 6) - loco under Scratchwood services. Impossible - the site of the filming was Scratchwood sidings, sited just south of the Elstree tunnels on...
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Where are you celebrating this birthday, please?
I can remember riding behind this engine on the North Woolwich-Stratford line, sitting in a quad-art set, as a spotty young trainspotter in the...
St Albans South Signal Box has about 30 reviews on TripAdvisor, with most rating us 4/5 0r 5/5. As a result we're rated around the 5th most...
The history of this line is a little complex. (I lived on Shooter's Hill and so visited it a few times in my youth!) It was actually 9.5 inch...
I've had some success with old Instamatic pictures by putting the scans through Photoshop to improve the colour rendition. But reproduction size...
Might be worthwhile contacting the Heritage Railway Association - most UK preserved railways belong to this, and the HRA collect a wide range of...
Yes, as I don't know Polish at all! Is the top cylinder the steam cylinder and the other two pump the air in a two-stage process from the middle...
It's worth recording that the St Albans South Signal Box had its best year ever in terms of numbers of visitors. We'd been averaging around 1,900...
I haven't used an independent light-meter for years, either with my last 35mm SLR film camera or with my present DSLR. With the film camera I got...
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