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21B 近期的活动

  1. 21B 支持 JamessquaredAccounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2025-12-29 , 19:28
  2. 21B 支持 S.A.C. MartinAccounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2025-12-29 , 19:27
  3. 21B 支持 35BAccounting for Steam Locomotives (ex Flying Scotsman thread) 内发表的帖子.

    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...

    2025-12-29 , 19:27
  4. 21B 支持 StinchMid Hants Railway Operational Matters 内发表的帖子.

    A CP kind of night tonight :)

    2025-12-27 , 19:03
  5. 21B 回复主题: Bluebell Railway General Discussion.

    Pro Probably not in 2026. It cannot leave the railway for the first two years of its ticket.

    2025-12-26 , 23:32
  6. 21B 回复主题: 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

    2025-12-26 , 23:14