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  1. JohnElliott
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    Railway 200

    I've been told I may have attended one of the events in 1975, but I'd have been a babe in arms so certainly don't have any recollection of it. I...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 25 дек 2024 в разделе: Steam Traction
  3. JohnElliott
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    Bluebell Railway General Discussion

    I note that it says "The Southern Region never used AC Traction". Maybe not, but the LBSCR did. And it had powers to electrify its whole network...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 28 мар 2024 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  4. JohnElliott
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    V4 2-6-2 No. 3403

    Streamlined Thompson A1/1? (More of a neverwazza rather than extinct, I grant)
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 2 ноя 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  5. JohnElliott
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    Southern Railway Loco Class Designation

    Per Wikipedia, the LSWR system was based on order numbers - a locomotive class would be named after the order number for the first batch. The...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 8 окт 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  6. JohnElliott
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    7027 Thornbury Castle

    Or a new build 10203 - that would, after all, have been an impeccably Southern design!
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 12 июл 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  7. JohnElliott
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    7027 Thornbury Castle

    Wide chufferitis?
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 28 сен 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
  8. JohnElliott
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    In preservation, it's often "If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice".
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 23 сен 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
  9. JohnElliott
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    'Sensible' New Builds

    I remember reading a similar article in one of the magazines opining that the ideal bulk buy for heritage lines was a batch of 0-6-0 tender...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 13 сен 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
  10. JohnElliott
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    7027 Thornbury Castle

    Or to Viscount Churchill (pre-rebuild, of course). After all, there's already a Star in existence, but there isn't a Bear...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 30 авг 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
  11. JohnElliott
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    Alternative history steam 1980

    I'd guess class 70 electric locos -- without the war, a lot more of the network would have been electrified by 1945.
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 1 июл 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
  12. JohnElliott
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    Bluebell Motive Power

    In one of HAV Bulleid's books, he describes the Leader as "a sophisticated Garratt" -- and then in a later book apologises for it, so I think he...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 26 июн 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
  13. JohnElliott
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    2999: Lady of Legend

    New-build Facebook group incoming in 3...2...1... :p Not sure what's happened to the tender, though. It looks rather flat -- is it 2'3.5" gauge,...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 25 апр 2022 в разделе: Steam Traction
  14. JohnElliott
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    Heritage Railways expanding or extending

    A year or so ago there were certainly preparations afoot to reinstate the other missing bridge, to improve access for motorised vehicles along the...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 21 апр 2022 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  15. JohnElliott
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    Well I never knew they tried this (Bus body ala Pacer, Mk1 Underframe)....

    IIRC, that one didn't work out because of electrical interference regulations - if they'd kept the original motor generator it would have been...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 22 фев 2022 в разделе: Heritage Rolling Stock
  16. JohnElliott
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    Well I never knew they tried this (Bus body ala Pacer, Mk1 Underframe)....

    The idea was considered for the Hastings line as an alternative to electrification - Pacer bodies on Hastings DEMU chassis, hauled by class 33s.
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 19 фев 2022 в разделе: Heritage Rolling Stock
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    Locomotives that should have been preserved, but weren’t.

    I remember when reading O S Nock's British Locomotives of the 20th Century, he mentioned that he'd been unable to find any contemporary accounts...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 21 дек 2021 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E.

    My recollections from my reading are that the LSWR chose third rail for a degree of compatibility with the District Line, because they'd have to...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 19 дек 2021 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Sir Nigel Gresley - The L.N.E.R.’s First C.M.E.

    Gresley did propose rebuilding an EF1 as a diesel-electric freight loco in 1928, but according to lner.info the project was cancelled when...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 17 дек 2021 в разделе: Steam Traction
  20. JohnElliott
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    Locomotives that should have been preserved, but weren’t.

    Going the other way, it would have been interesting to see if the Paget sleeve-valve locomotive could have been made to work in preservation....
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 16 дек 2021 в разделе: Steam Traction
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    Does steam and diesel have a future?

    Kerosene Castle is still around, and in need of a replacement engine. Maybe now's the time to make it into Thorium Castle...
    Сообщение от: JohnElliott, 23 ноя 2021 в разделе: Steam Traction
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