Tare weight of a 16 ton mineral varies. I seem to recall an average gross laden weight of about 23 tons. 80 x 23 = 1840 + 20 for the van so A...
Just bought my two 'sets' of stays online. (Each 'set' is one crown stay, one copper stay and one steel stay)
Wasn't a Peak a bit of overkill for a lightweight train like that? (Thinking of the Cromptons [mere type 3] on the Grain branch dragging 900 or...
There is also a requirement for all doors on the side facing NR to be locked.
A damper on a steam loco is not a way of dampening the fire. Just like a damper on a domestic coal stove (sadly now uncommon) it is a means of...
I love these old restored films. (And as a bonus the next one which popped up afterwards was Flushing to Harwich, with Dutch and British boat...
I was asked to stand behind Don Estelle in the cab doorway of Met 1. He was promoting a new record he'd recorded. This was post "Ain't 'alf 'ot...
The box art doesn't look like hydraulic buffers, more like self-contained sprung buffers.
You could perhaps draw an analogy with the way that local bus services used to operate. At one time many routes in London had odd workings to...
Big ED would be my preference. Or couple a 71 & a 74 together, blow all the breakers when on the juice, booster set on the 71 for gapping,...
With my limited memory of French lessons I had to look that up. Wiktionary says donkey/ass/idiot/moron/dunce. Not sure who exactly you...
Way back when I lived in Gravesend, I recall there was a service area behind some shops with a turntable, I think it was at the top of Queen St....
To be clear, the 'wrong product' at Northfleet actually pre-dated CTT. MGR trains AFAIK were not labelled even when most loaded wagons were. The...
Possibly it was more a matter of fitting the grippers between the wheels on 3' gauge rather than space for the rail. Although the fact that...
Even as early as 1976 I recall that the number snatcher at Blue Circle Nortfleet used a Dictaphone to record the MGR numbers as he walked past the...
Even in the late '90s, when I found myself 'used to best advantage' in a TOPS office after being displaced as an AFA, I found that the old manuals...
Recycling of spent ballast has certainly moved on. Back in the late '70s early '80s when I was Hoo Jn based, the spoil arrived in ex-traffic...
I had assumed something like that, however just saying "you should delete your post" without saying who "you" was, seems meaningless to me.
On industrial locos with air start, a donkey engine was often provided to fill the starting bottle with compressed air to start the main engine....
For those not familiar with road passenger transport licensing, operating companies hold licences from the Traffic Commisioner. If a company is...
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