These kind of projects appear from time to time when a body becomes available as a potential project. Everyone involved in vintage coaches soon...
Hosking (with a g) and Smith both employ a large number of staff working for their respective organisations who they can then instruct to work on...
I love the vintage coaches but restoring a wrecked departmental one back to full health is a long, long hard slog, especially when you are doing...
The railway has acquired a set of loco/coach lifting jacks, heavy beasts 4 x 35 tonne. They have arrived and tried asking about them but nobody I...
One of the two guys who started the Winchcombe Railway Museum, John Ferris was a popular Swindon and Cricklade volunteer for many years running...
I think one of the problems, Thornbury Castle has had is being owned (twice) by one individual. Restoring a large locomotive like this in my...
The story I was told in the mess room by someone was that it had a set of connecting or coupling rods with it possibly that Pete Waterman had had...
This is the thing with preserved coaches. With locos anything is considered "viable". Barry locos have been rebuilt with wheels that had been cut...
In the 1950s they used quite a lot of a wood called Meranti for coaches. I understand the Thompson coaches were built with it. You can still get...
The Gloucestershire Warwickshire did at one time have quite a lot of vintage carriages. They had 4 Gwr toplights which came from Dawlish in 1981...
I find it a real disappointment when railways which do have historic coaches don't use them. I went to the Bluebell on the 5th Oct. I knew there...
I did go to the Steam museum years ago to look for coach stuff but they didn't have coach drawings, only photos, but the situation may be...
Yeah you should contact Chris Valkoinen at the NRM to see what they have. His email is chris.valkoinen@nrm.org.uk and also send to...
Instead of getting upset with the WSR, on the days when you were available (say a Sunday), you could have just gone to the railway and introduced...
The owner of the Engine did tell me himself that it was going to the Buckinghamshire railway centre so the boiler can be worked on by Steve...
I think the LSWR carriage was restored by the NRM in 1986 including repainting. If you look in the book British Railway carriages of the 20th...
Oh nice, Did you do that signwriting from scratch or repaired originals. Did you do it with gold leaf ?
The Mid Norfolk railway use this as their logo, but with the letters LNER replaced with MNR. It was quite widely used but not seen it used on any...
It might be quite small lettering say 4mm high, so try and clean any metalwork with a cloth to see. although no guarantee there will be anything....
Is there letters (like LMS etc ) stamped on the metal work, hinges, handles etc , that might indicate what railway company made them ?
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