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21B vond Jamessquared's post leuk in het topic Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
I think you are dancing on a pinhead here. Cook (who was there, unlike both you and Nock!) says: Then Collett decided that it would be better to do any further conversions on relatively newer engines in which naturally the framing would be in...
29 dec 2025 om 19:28 -
21B vond S.A.C. Martin's post leuk in het topic Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
I just want to clear up something: I passed my “upgrade” not my “Viva” - it is still “Mr” and not “Doc” Martin, I am afraid, but I am in final write up! Mr, and no, but you are really taking issue with something that shouldn’t be so big a...
29 dec 2025 om 19:27 -
21B vond 35B's post leuk in het topic Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
And in a happy juxtaposition of operational need and accounting practice, it was possible to frame this as a “repair” rather than a new investment. Or, in other words, just the same sleight of hand and exercise in judgment that businesses the...
29 dec 2025 om 19:27 -
21B vond Stinch's post leuk in het topic Mid Hants Railway Operational Matters.
A CP kind of night tonight :)
27 dec 2025 om 19:03 -
21B reageerde op het topic Bluebell Railway General Discussion.
Pro Probably not in 2026. It cannot leave the railway for the first two years of its ticket.
26 dec 2025 om 23:32 -
21B reageerde op het topic Accounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread).
I completely agree. There is a tendency to romanticise railways to the point where it is forgotten that they were businesses. Ones which in the case of the GWR were accustomed to paying a dividend
26 dec 2025 om 23:14
