I get what you mean but the new route around Kent is far superior to the old Surrey Hills circuit with a few gradients to make the engine cough a...
If it’s £900 for two that makes a Belmond trip look like remarkable value. You get the real deal, genuine fine dining in proper Pullman luxury
It’s got an air pump and controls to work air braked trains but the engine is as in BR days
No, from the cab view on here you can see the vac brake and independent steam brake handles. It’s the same set up to the B1 and SNG
There’s a steam hose between engine and tender on all Stanier and BR Standard locomotives for the tender steam brake
35028 has the pump concealed in the back of the tender, it’s the source of the exhaust you see from that location when it’s running
Just to clarify a point on air braking, only four locomotives that have worked on the mainline have been converted to air braking, Bittern, the...
I hope I'm not out of order saying this, this train is being run in memory of Steve Peach, a long standing volunteer and engineer with BLS with...
I’m not a technical person either but there’s a lot of pipework, modifications to the loco to fit the pump and equalising valve to work engine’s...
Adding an air pump and controls for working air braked trains is not a five minute job.
I agree, I mentioned climbing up onto the top of a Stanier tender, in practice I don’t think it’s done now using the steps unless there is no...
They didn’t even think it was worth the effort to fit cab doors to tender engines. I don’t like climbing up onto the back of a Stanier tender...
Couldn’t agree more. We are now at risk of making life so safe that it won’t be worth living. How can reaching up the a top lamp bracket be...
I generally have an aversion to drones but….. stunning! I assume the clag on Arnabol Viaduct was pre arranged.
Converting BH to a GN large Atlantic is one hell of a Photoshop challenge!
From a photographer’s point of view double heading is fine providing the two engines are compatible. For me it’s all about reproducing things I...
With respect that’s a rather spurious comment, no mistake should happen or it wouldn’t be a mistake! We won’t know anything until the...
You are right Henry, it was the main road. I just remember it as such and nearly had an unfortunate encounter with one of those red Ferguson...
Considering the level of operations WC undertake, not just steam and the well over 30 years of age operation of the Jacobite I think that’s a bit...
This is probably the best itinerary so far for the GB. Steam on the Far North Line, I can see I will be piling a lot of miles onto the car’’s o...
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