It’s all sounding a bit W1A?
Wouldn’t a much lower risk approach have been to run with a diesel inside the steam locomotive? This would have kept most of the general public...
In the case of Tornado, iirc there’s one of each, for forward and reverse running respectively.
This is the answer …… ;) https://www.instagram.com/reel/DImJavmMIfl/?igsh=MXdieWsxODRmNXY4ag==
For those with FB access, there are some spectacular shots of the train battling across Dawlish Warren this morning here …....
I'm pretty sure the only possibly affordable solution would be to reopen the crossing. IIRC this was once thought to be unfeasible due to highway...
Please can you explain that concept in more detail?
By the by, I’m just returning from the Dresden Steam Fest. One of the locos bringing a tour in was a Class 41 (2-8-2 iirc). We just happened to...
So this is Hoskings own private GB tour?
From Sean’s link above, this pic illustrates very clearly the cam profile as I understand it, albeit very elongated in this case … [ATTACH]
I concur. Reams of stuff on the difficulties of squeezing x, y and z onto the loco, but unfortunately I’ve never seen a schematic of how all work...
I’m 99% sure it doesn’t. AFAIK it sets target speeds based on line limit and traffic ahead etc. I guess if the driver exceeds the target speed it...
Best post yet - please copy to the A1 Trust (and, no doubt, a number of other heritage organisations who seem to have forgotten how they grew to...
Please could you expand on that a bit ?
Yep, see my post above ;)
Assume it will be partnered by an ETCS fitted 37 then? Both as a chaperone in case the ETCS doesn’t work, and to save burning mid Wales to the ground?
Looking good on their FB video, sporting a nice ‘modern’ looking higher tender (and air brakes obvs).
I can’t find anything either. I think I’m mistaken. What’s the members journal - you mean P&P?
I could be mistaken, but I thought that very recently I’d read a virtual carbon copy of these terms in connection with the KWVR?
Just reading through the above incidents of lens caps going AWOL - is there a reason that the owners don’t use tethers to prevent this?
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