Is a Castle wider than a Scot, despite having slightly slimmer cylinders?
Thank you, that makes sense.
Is the Patriot team already a member of the (recently formed, whatever they call it) club?
Also of course a tank engine was designed to spend half its time running backwards.
Yes of course restoring an old boiler and building a new one are both very expensive projects. But you have not explained why you think restoring...
I sometimes open the sliding toplight and put my ear near the opening. I think there is slightly less noise from the wheels there than at a...
It's not obvious (to me anyway) from RTT where the loco was turned.
But they did get your £7.
That gives the lie to the excuse that everyone was too busy to inform potential customers that 34072 would not be running.
Granted either would consume a lot of cash, but how do you reckon there would be no saving at all over building completely new?
The Darlington team had to make decisions about various aspects of their P2 but the distinctive appearance of the front end is clearly an...
Far more of the general population of Britain know certain LNER Pacifics by their names than know them by their numbers.
As outsiders we don't know any of the costs, but just restoring 2861's would surely be cheaper than buying and restoring the Castle boiler.
That post deserves a "like" (for giving us the news) but one can hardly like the news itself. Irrespective of the inherent merits or otherwise of...
I seem to recall that they were planning exactly that at one stage, with some bodging of the smokebox saddle to fit, but then changed their minds....
That is true, but the result would have been a reproduction of a locomotive which in operation did not meet the GWR's requirements and which...
It happened with Duke of Gloucester's restoration, I think just because of some missing paperwork.
Fair comment, but haven't they lost/wasted rather more on badly done work than on unsuitable second-hand parts?
Where does one find 3 foot gauge engineering vehicles? Are they specially built or converted from metre gauge (of which there is much more around...
Or a stepping stone towards mainline operation at a later date.
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