BTW I wonder if the Greek Government is aware that our National Museums are starting to gift aware specify their precious artefacts? I think...
As far as I'm aware the Taff Vale 0-6-2T is still part of the National Collection but loaned out.
As a duplicate streamlined pacific I wonder who is going to be gifted 6229?
The Saints and Stars were directly comparable 2 and 4 cylinder types. Holcroft, who was transferred to the Swindon drawing office at the time...
I'm sure I recall other sources quoting drivers as regarding Castles as being the best GWR locos. I recollect reading somewhere (don't ask me...
But Par is further west than Holyhead or Blackpool
So we even have an expert on chasing sheep on the forum! :)
That description of Hughes might equally, or even more accurately, be applied to Bowen Cooke. BTW I do wonder, given the commonality of...
"I think we might be able to offer something a bit different to the clays and pheasants this year m'Lord" http://www.lazonbyhall.co.uk/shooting.html
I think the head scratching was often more with regard to the boiler, particularly the grate, than the front end. Even with 4-4-0s the coupled...
Great Eastern 1500 class?
They didn't go backwards, they had return flue boilers with the driver at the opposite end to the fireman. Unfortunately this led to industrial...
If it's correct that it was Stanier who decided to build the 1938 Duchesses unstreamlined to reduce weight and make maintenance easier, I wonder...
And they put THAT on a passenger train, a lot of National Coal Board locos in the 1970s were cleaner (if more battered) than that!
Yet Stanier was allowed to build more unashamedly express passenger Coronations, complete with streamlining as late as 1943! There's also the...
The pre grouping GWR would be the worst represented major company if it wasn't for the half a dozen identical 2800s rescued (but not necessarily...
In the GWR case almost certainly the decline in mineral traffic. During the 1930s quite a number of (mainly newly built) freight locos were in...
3856 GWR steam locos at nationalisation (again less than the total at grouping).
All this careful consideration about correct livery coaches with which livery loco. .... Then Joe Public spoils the whole period effect by turning...
The GWR amalgamation took place in 1922 a year earlier than the rest, so the year end stock total was 3901. I was only going to bother listing...
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