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  1. MellishR
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    Rother Valley Railway

    Does that mean that the recalcitrant landowners refused a negotiated sale, even when faced with compulsory purchase?
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 1 янв 2024 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  3. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    If we're concerned about terminology, then strictly "Indicated Horsepower" is calculated from indicator diagrams of pressure in the cylinders,...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 31 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  4. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    Different individuals will have different preconceived notions that they would like to be correct, but we should all try to be open-minded. A lot...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 30 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  5. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    If those locos were to reach high speeds anywhere, those would have been likely places; respectively coming down Stoke bank and continuing to...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 29 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  6. MellishR
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    LE movements, ECS and test runs 2023

    What struck me was that the route was so extremely indirect, including a long stretch of the (normally busy) WCML. Was no shorter route possible,...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 29 дек 2023 в разделе: What's Going On
  7. MellishR
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    Isle Of Man Steam Railway

    Yesterday I came across the Green Signals series of podcasts. In this one [MEDIA] the Director of Rail at Transport Scotland explains that, when...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 27 дек 2023 в разделе: Narrow Gauge Railways
  8. MellishR
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    SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions

    Did Stanier think there were taking the Mickey? Were they?
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 27 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  9. MellishR
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    Class 43 (aka 125 HST) preservation

    If some of them are fit to run in Mexico, why are none of them being used here to alleviate stock shortages?
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 25 дек 2023 в разделе: Diesel & Electric Traction
  10. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    That might confirm whether or not the speed of the chart paper varied, but that is irrelevant to the speed calculations, which were and are made...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 25 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  11. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    Possible irregularities in the movements of the chart paper are of some interest, but not as critical as the distance markers. So please add a...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 24 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  12. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    Even re-typing the two links I can't get them to work.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 23 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  13. MellishR
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    US Boiler Design and Combustion Chambers

    It took me a while to find those pages. Printed page 505 is 613 of the digital copy, and 517 is 624.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 21 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  14. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    If the movement of the paper is slightly delayed each quarter mile, that should not matter. There is a still a mark on the paper showing that the...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 19 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  15. MellishR
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    Steam Dreams 2023

    And yet the system was able to generate a path through that platform, apparently.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 19 дек 2023 в разделе: What's Going On
  16. MellishR
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    Current and Proposed New-Builds

    Indeed, and many other components too, which was surely a Good Thing from the point of view of the management running a railway. Less tooling for...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 18 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  17. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    If the speeds are all calculated from the distance and time marks, any fluctuations in the paper speed should not matter much.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 17 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  18. MellishR
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    The trouble with all such speculation is that it ignores the special variety of logic that seems to operate in West Somerset.
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 17 дек 2023 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  19. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    I stand corrected again. Can someone please remind me (and all of us) which page of this thread shows an image of a section of the actual roll, as...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 17 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  20. MellishR
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    Steam speed records including City of Truro and Mallard

    I stand corrected. However the only other records of distance or time are the manually added quarter mile marks, which are likely to be less...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 17 дек 2023 в разделе: Steam Traction
  21. MellishR
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    West Somerset Railway General Discussion

    It will indeed, provided the money can be found to overhaul it in a reasonable time; but there is room for considerable doubt about the money. We...
    Сообщение от: MellishR, 17 дек 2023 в разделе: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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