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  1. Mark Thompson 支持 Petra Wilde 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I basically agree with Tom. But before abandoning my fantasy heliport suggestion, I realise it missed a trick. Instead of a green fields site, the heliport should be on the foreshore at Lynton. That way the underground-railway connection to it...

    2025-12-17 , 20:50

  2. Mark Thompson 支持 35B 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    So, in other words, a set of questions constrained by factors you’ve decided on and fit your vision of what the restored L&B might look like. For those of us not intimately acquainted with the costs of railway preservation, the values wee...

    2025-12-17 , 08:53

  3. Mark Thompson 支持 DaveE 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I really don't understand the idea of what you ask. The L&B is the L&B, for this particular railway I think if its done carefully and right that's enough. If you want a fantasy railway with a collection of stuff from elsewhere, with that amount...

    2025-12-17 , 08:50

  4. Mark Thompson 支持 DaveE 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    Even with a no money limit, I would not close the pub. It's an important community hub now and the railway can sit alongside it quite comfortably and blend in well together. I also would not to over develop the area. It is the gateway to the...

    2025-12-16 , 20:21

  5. Mark Thompson 支持 Meatman 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I think I can confidently say that I am probably classed as a trouble maker/sh1t stirrer because Im not afraid to question or challenge some decisions all in the name of 'accountability' although some like to call it something else so that it...

    2025-12-16 , 10:00

  6. Mark Thompson 支持 RailWest 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    Rowley Moor farm :-) It is certainly the case that questions have been raised about RMF in the past about its current (non) use as a storage outpost. A bit inefficient in the case of 'active' locos and coaches, if the idea were to be merely to...

    2025-12-15 , 18:58

  7. Mark Thompson 支持 lynbarn 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    This has all the shade of L&BR Co V Nuttells about it :Googleit:

    2025-12-15 , 06:07

  8. Mark Thompson 支持 Jamessquared 在 P2 Locomotive Company and related matters 内发表的帖子.

    Firstly, I don’t believe the firehole door is asymmetrically placed (that really would be a turn up for the books!). Rather, it is the staying pattern that is asymmetric. Given that (1) the stays are an integral part of the safe and reliable...

    2025-12-13 , 14:27

  9. Mark Thompson在主题 P2 Locomotive Company and related matters 内上传了附件.

    [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Are you quite sure it's "only 5 stays"?

    IMG_2716 copy-1.jpg IMG_9803.jpeg 2025-12-13 , 09:25

  10. Mark Thompson 回复主题: Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development.

    The sub base is about the only item not immediately visible, without a degree of judicious prodding. This is not HS2. It is c.150ft of narrow gauge track, laid this century. Make of it what you will. I just know I'm not impressed

    2025-12-12 , 20:11

  11. Mark Thompson 支持 Petra Wilde 在 Lynton and Barnstaple - Operations and Development 内发表的帖子.

    I would rather doubt that give the project update, which says: "This has been a complex project with far more work expected than originally envisaged. As trackwork was removed to enable below ground construction it quickly became evident that...

    2025-12-12 , 20:04

  12. Mark Thompson 回复主题: P2 Locomotive Company and related matters.

    That picture makes a very interesting comparison with what has just been delivered to Darlington. The difference in the number of flexible stays on the blackhead is startling, presumably the result of an experience curve? I'd like to know more.

    2025-12-12 , 16:33

  13. Mark Thompson 支持 guycarr360 在 P2 Locomotive Company and related matters 内发表的帖子.

    @Sheff would be the one to comment, last I heard on here was a working 3D printed model was to be made to prove operation. Nobody is sure if that has happened yet. To be fair, the trust said recently that work was re-commencing, after the...

    2025-12-12 , 16:25

  14. Mark Thompson 支持 osprey 在 P2 Locomotive Company and related matters 内发表的帖子.

    Never seen that... what a piece of engineering and so sad David will not be around to the finale. Many, many thanks... that's made my day.....

    2025-12-12 , 12:22
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