Several fora to which I subscribe feature a Caption Competition. If there was one here, the putative GWR 4-6-0 would be a natural.... "Hoskins,...
In his book 'Living with London Midland Locomotives' (Ian Allan 1977 pp61) A J Powell states that "....the A3s were hopeless for slogging up the...
As Katherine Graham, the former publisher of the Washington Post, used to say, "News is what someone somewhere wants suppressed. Everything else...
Standard Class 2-8-2 as originally proposed by Riddles.
A very high proportion of modern consumer electronics falls into this category. Although CE-marked they don't remotely meet EU EMC standards....
Thank you -- that's very interesting. Any hedge-fund managers out there fancy re-creating 46256...?
Jos -- given your level of knowledge and experience, which (if any) Class 8 locomotive hauling modern stock down (e.g.) Stoke Bank might equal or...
Extremely informative, interesting and very well presented. Thank you.
Remember the Buddhist saying that when you point at someone, three fingers are pointing back at yourself (or himself in this case).
For what it's worth my memory of the ones shedded at Nuneaton just before withdrawal is of shrill whistles.
With one rub of the lamp the 'Potts Preservation Society' is brought into being together with all the necessary resources to reinstate the railway...
46256. Or any of the Patriots shedded at Nuneaton until withdrawal.
So reads a sentence from "I Tried to Run a Railway". I've often puzzled over its meaning -- can anyone please clarify? It's a few lines down from...
Scheid namen met een komma.