Текущая активность MellishR
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MellishR нравится сообщение 35B в теме Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
So, in other words, a set of questions constrained by factors you’ve decided on and fit your vision of what the restored L&B might look like. For those of us not intimately acquainted with the costs of railway preservation, the values wee...
17 дек 2025 в 09:04 -
MellishR нравится сообщение Jamessquared в теме Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.
With money no limit: a complete facsimile of the L&B as it was, extending over the full 20 miles; but with two of every loco and carriage produced so that the railway could choose to run in either SR olive or L&B liveries, as the mood took me...
17 дек 2025 в 09:01 -
MellishR нравится сообщение LittleRedTrain в теме Saphos Trains 2026.
It would be a real help if the Tour operators, charter TOCs and Network Rail could get their act together on providing confirmed timings for a tour months/weeks instead of days in advance. Sometimes it's been as little as one day before, in the...
17 дек 2025 в 08:45 -
MellishR ответил(а) в теме Saphos Trains 2026.
Possibly Network Rail.
16 дек 2025 в 08:24 -
MellishR ответил(а) в теме Strathspey Railway.
Yes, at least to the extent of thorough inspection, if failure of that old infrastructure could result in deaths or major economic loss. If serious defects are found it's then a separate question whether to spent money putting them right or to...
15 дек 2025 в 10:43 -
MellishR нравится сообщение Inzynier в теме Strathspey Railway.
The inspection and reporting is only part of the problem. About a decade ago I was working on a highway scheme and trying to decide what to do with a couple of existing 1960s period box culverts - we wanted to widen the carriageways above them....
15 дек 2025 в 10:37 -
MellishR нравится сообщение 21B в теме Strathspey Railway.
I think what’s misguided is the constant laying on of more responsibility to local authorities without either increasing the central grant or allowing them new funding streams. The latest silliness is that the levy on £2m+ homes won’t go to the...
15 дек 2025 в 10:36 -
MellishR нравится сообщение jnc в теме Strathspey Railway.
Which suggests that the priorities set by law are misguided... I'm not a bridge specialist, but my semi-amateur impression is that there's no way to fix that one - e.g. by jacking the spans up, and then replacing first the pier, then the damaged...
15 дек 2025 в 10:36 -
MellishR нравится сообщение jackshepherd в теме Steam Dreams 2025.
I see it being the same as last year where it's diesel out of Victoria and steam back in, as with these Santas and the Polar Expresses, the steam loco is part of the attraction, so it makes sense to have it be the first thing people see before...
15 дек 2025 в 10:32 -
MellishR нравится сообщение Jamessquared в теме P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.
Firstly, I don’t believe the firehole door is asymmetrically placed (that really would be a turn up for the books!). Rather, it is the staying pattern that is asymmetric. Given that (1) the stays are an integral part of the safe and reliable...
13 дек 2025 в 21:35 -
MellishR нравится сообщение Big Al в теме Saphos 2025.
Good to see that a way was found to get both locos back to base and save on additional paths. That journey must go down as one of the most 'over-powered' charters ever. Two locos up front and a diesel pushing along the way to save water. It does...
13 дек 2025 в 12:11 -
MellishR ответил(а) в теме Steam Dreams 2025.
I would say rather than the more Northern joiners do so because that's where they live or can get to conveniently.
12 дек 2025 в 15:27
