Followers of the Heritage Railways Volunteers Facebook page may have seen our sub-page https://www.facebook.com/iomr150/ which has been created as...
"Scaldwell"? I didn't think that was SMG owned. Do you mean 'Handyman'? Ray.
Unfortunately this is not a new problem nor is it confined to the preservation of railway artifacts. I'm sure we can all think of cases where a...
The IMR 2-4-0's of the 10-13 series run at 160psi and have 420g. tank capacity. As you say the South line is just over 15 miles each way and the...
Pretty sure they have topfeeds. Ray.
..... and County tanks IIRC. Ray.
Link to Heritage Railway Volunteers here : https://www.facebook.com/hrviom/ ... and for those who don't 'do' Facebook the Steam Railway 2022...
I thought "windshields" were on the front of road vehicles. BTW no A3 or any other B.R. loco was ever painted "Brunswick green". They were B.R....
8' 0" on No.1 against 6' 6" on No.2 Ray.
AFAIK the nameplates were sold with the locos in 1978. Whilst no.8's were on the loco when it returned to IoM Rlys ownership in 2012 the others...
Some interesting points there, Chris. Space in Port Erin Museum is very tight and whilst a third loco in there would be very nice something else...
If I understand correctly the group up at Glyn Ceiriog https://www.glynvalleytramway.org.uk/news.html is the one building to 2' 4 1/2" gauge....
One of the 'forgotten' IMR locos is about to get a long overdue cosmetic restoration if the appeal by the Isle of Man Steam Railway Supporters'...
.... and here she is. As always updates can be found at https://www.facebook.com/hrviom/ Ray. [ATTACH]
They did ... three according to Wikipedia "Three full-size replicas of the locomotive as 5972 Hogwarts Castle are at The Wizarding World of Harry...
Hi Howard, Re the washout plug problem. This first emerged on No4's heavily rebuilt boiler but has, unfortunately, re-occurred on the new SVR...
In between frequent heavy hailstorms I managed to get a few pics of the last Douglas bound train of the 2021 season .... the 2022 season starts on...
I can confirm that. 60', as I was involved in lifting it from Queen St. York and reinstalling it at Southport. We turned Black 5's and Jubilees...
There's and easy solution to that....restore it to WW1 condition and use its WDLR number 1265 (puts tin had on!). Seriously though Mountaineer, as...
Not sure about 990's current whereabouts but 251 (and 4771) are in the new Doncaster Museum...
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