I was told that a couple of weeks ago. On the positive side it will give us something 'new' for the 150th of the South Line in 2024. IoM...
One of the Heritage Railway Volunteers team was at Alan Keef's open day yesterday and viewed the progress that has been made on the extensive...
In his autobiography 'Firing Days' Harold Gasson a Didcot fireman during WW2 refers to the N15X's loaned to the GWR (including Remembrance) and...
Several s.g. lines have safely propelled a passenger train with the guard in the leading vehicle with a brake valve for use in an emergency. IIRC...
Which is, of course, what they originally intended fitting along with the salvaged 28xx block and would have been correct for the early prototype....
I think the intention, at the moment, is to continue trying to make No.21 a useful item of motive power. The faulty motors went away for repair...
The 'Cabbage' was built by Motive Power & Equipment Solutions of Greenville S.C. which went "belly up" after supplying the Durango & Silverton...
That's not completely true. Whilst some of the parts which have caused problems e.g. slipped tyres, motor/gearbox issues and bogie frame cracking...
A recent Backtrack had photographs of, and reminiscences about, the camping coaches at Hest Bank. They were part of an article about camping...
I think that the Beachy Head group have made a wise decision to concentrate their future efforts on restoring one of the Bluebell's long o.o.u....
I visited the 'old' York museum many times in the 60's /early 70's and the locos certainly didn't appear to have been repainted since they were...
Correct, and he also got the cylinders from 48518. Ray.
That wouldn't work as the combustion gases will take the path of least resistance i.e. through the empty superheater flues rather than the...
Sorry, but I don't think that is necessarily true. The Isle of Man Railway still uses locos dating back as far as 1874 in 7 days/week commercial...
I thought that the GWS had publicly stated that it no longer had any main line ambitions. Ray.
The turntable 'bridge' was a fairly complete loco frame i.e. frame plates and stretchers and had been used as a turntable on the CDR . Several...
Sorry but I think that you are over-simplifying things. The 5532 & 80072 shops have minimal overheads so any sales equate to almost 100% profit....
They have always run bunker first in one direction. The IMR only ever had one turntable, at St.John's, in the V between the Ramsey and Foxdale...
What you really need is 150 year 11's........ [ATTACH] Looking for something different for a sponsored event my Yr.11's challenged my steamroller...
At Douglas IMR No.4 Loch (1874) awaits depart time on the 16.00 to Port Erin as No.11 Maitland off the incoming train pauses on its way to the...
Separă nume cu o virgulă.
