Apologies, but living in Germany, I'm not totally up to date on the preservation scene. However, I understood that John Cameron's number 9 would...
I remember being uncomfortably close to oa similar flashover in Crewe station - I'd guess it was late in 1963. A Duchess arrived with a train from...
Mornin' all. Does anyone here know when the first yellow stripes were actually applied? I see above that a Duchess was shot with stripes on...
Tractive effort is usually quoted at 85 % b.p.; does this actually mean that a loco with 100 % b.p. has a nominal t.e. 17.6 % higher? This is...
Thanks Paul for the link; I see the Bluebell's line is distinctly trickier than the SVR, even excluding Imberhorne.
Like many "ex-pats", I am unfamiliar with the EG extension's gradients. But I have in the past visited the SVR to be amazed that they expected an...
I would very much doubt that any loco owner is aiming to "break even"; perhaps not to spend too much, but that's not quite the same thing. I...
That's an interesting site! I have been trying to find a list of the engines stabled at 10A as steam finished, but so far without any luck. You...
Yes, known as the 'jockey' valve; afair, it involved closing the regulator, then opening it just a crack against a stop. But not having actually...
Depends what you mean by "regular". I was all over the whole system, and there were steam locos in action from Weymouth to Aberdeen in those days....
As a steam pursuer in the early 1960s, I was once on board the 19.15 Paddington-Hereford on a Friday, when the Hymek failed at reading, to be...
As a cleaner at Crewe South, I fired some of these ex-Crostis which, afair, were still in fact classified as class 9F (I certainly never heard...
Can't say anything about preservation, but as a passed cleaner a Crewe South I was lucky enough to fire one of them on the 01.10 Crewe SSM to...
On a different subject, as a fireman at 10A when the steam loco was so unceremoniously disposed of, I have been trying to get hold of a list of...
Greetings from Germany. I am extremely upset that this of all sites should use US-English, when the railways were invented in Britian. I don't...
Evenin' all, Thanks all for your contributions. I just came by a copy of a German "Lexicon of Inventors and Inventions", and it gives the gist...
Evening all, I have a translation in front of me; the text, which is in German, suggests that the "Flying Hamburger" diesel railcar units of...
HI Martin, Please cool it; it must be borne in mind that there is a lot of water between us, and Alberta is unlikely to be aware of any racial...
I know you only asked about heritage lines (of which there are probably far less in Germany than in the UK), but the main line side of things may...
Thanks to you too; I really should have remembered 70C, because I travelled past it dozens of times when the was still steam there - but it was...
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