Should you not include the ‘kits of parts’ that purchased from Woolwich Arsenal and assembled in Ireland, at Inchihore etc. I think the MGWR were...
I think this refers to trials undertaken in May 1948. This was the period when exLMS 2-6-4 tanks ( Nos.2198 and 2199) were trialled on several...
There are a significant number of logs/timing sheets involving 34064 post the fitting of Doctor Giesl’s ejector. They appear to show no...
I thought the concept was to restore/rebuild ( retrospective ) GSN to 1940s condition. If the concept is to have a ‘modern’ loco within an ‘air...
A thoughtful posting, thank you. A couple of nit picking details. The Atlantic Coast Express stopped at Salisbury (83.7 miles from Waterloo)...
34064 was withdrawn May 1966. So these photos are early 1966. At this stage most ( if not all ? ) WC/BB/MN still retained their name plates. I had...
‘Bias’ is affected by frequency of observation; certainly for various reasons, pre and post 1968, Bulleid Pacific’s ‘suffered’ possibly from over...
Please may I suggest you read my post again. Note: as of 31/3/2021 as per accounts IMHO (quote) “it was parlous “ Followed by (quote) “we have...
The Plc accounts for the year ending March 2021 confirm that as of that date the Plc ( and hence the West Somerset Railway ) was in a parlous...
i suspect that forty passengers represents the marginal cost of running the service. Numbers above this represent revenue to offset against the...
72009 Allocated to Stratford August 58, returned to Carlisle Kingmoor October. On Sunday 28/9 hauled 6.20 pm out of Liverpool St. With typical...
There is, compared with passenger haulage, a limited amount of detailed footplate observations. At the risk of teaching how to suck eggs chapters...
You are of course correct. I should check first. The RPS archive from January 1948 to December 61 contains between Hellifield and Carlisle 14 logs...
yes an interesting thread. Back to Jubilees. They were not AFAIK used that much on the S&C other than during the war and of course the Saturday...
Ian, many of us have for some years supported this type of approach i.e an overarching charity. Bailey essentially promulgated a similar approach...
Steve, according to his own posts ‘Sidmouth’ has visited ( travelled ? ) the WSR twice. They were by his account bad experiences. ( We we’re never...
They were regular visitors to the Kent and Sussex resorts with excursions from North London and various London Midlanr origins eg Bedford, Watford...
Have just read above so few days late ! Apologies, I had a senior moment, that below has nothing to do with the R&SB ! It is meant as a sign of...
in the late Fifties Kentish Town men worked the 09.25 am from St Pancras and the 11.46 am return from Southend and the 2.45 pm the ex St Pancras...
According to the RCTS part 10 absorbed engines : “Seven G.W locomotives were transferred to the R&SB in 1907 taking the numbers 2, 29-34. The...
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