Not as grim as the ‘bucket and chuck it’ at Rolvenden when I joined in 1979. It was a Cleaner’s weekend job to empty it into a ditch, by which...
Fireline is correct. One point a number of people have suggested is lack of crew familiar with certain locos. Unless it has all changed in the...
At one time the railway on which I used to volunteer had a new GM who was obviously used to telling his staff to jump and to them asking how high....
I went to the Beverley museum sometime in the early eighties. The ship I was Second Engineer on was in dry dock in Immingham and I wanted to see...
There is a phoenix cassion off Littlestone on Sea, Kent. It's a scheduled ancient monument.
I think you will find that it is a disused and inoperable dry dock.
Are you likely to be asked to vote?
The last time that I went to the IoW St Johns yard was full of 02s. Mind you I travelled over on PS Ryde so it was some time ago.
The sanders on some but possibly not all (I can’t remember) of the GWR locos that I have fired or driven were gravity fed, via a tube within a...
At least she would have probably had decent sanders, not like those awful GWR gravity things.
I managed to drive seven of them on the K&ESR and they were all different in some way, sometimes startlingly so.
I’ve not driven a K&ESR Terrier for some time but both were air braked. One of them was always fitted with a Westinghouse driver’s valve and a...
Many year ago a KESR Yank tank was used on the Didcot mail trains, resulting in much slipping and a tyre moving on one wheel.
There is a preserved Paris metro set that runs with it’s own on board generator, although something like that set up may possibly be too heavy for...
It does Mike!
Lovely clean combustion until that first slip stirred the fire up!
Trinny and Susannah came to the K&ESR to film something. The GM told the producer that he would like to welcome them when they arrived. He was...
There was nearly a riot at the K&ESR when it was suggested to our lady Signalmen that the position should become Signaller. Ditto with lady Firemen.
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