Not really.... Swindon started a seemingly low priority program in the mid 30s of moving the top lamp iron from the top of the smokebox to one...
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There was no dynamometer involved as this was not in any way an official speed attempt. True, it wasn't a normal service train but not something...
I think our perceptions of normal loadings around that period are often at variance with reality. The Southern was never considered a "heavy...
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Such an electrification scheme was actually considered pre-war and if memory serves was intended to cover lines west of Exeter. One of the...
I hesitate to step back into the maelstrom of misinformation swirling about in this thread - but what the hell... The numbers quoted are off...
I will say at the outset here that I have contributed to the 4709 fund in the past and really want to see a 47xx run in my lifetime... At the same...
The building of the NGG13s and 16s is a tale of incremental changes between successive batches and deciding where one class ends and the other...
I noted... The boiler actually doesn't have all that many miles on it and hopes have been expressed that it won't need too much work. However a...
I don't believe anyone quite knows the state of the frames as yet. As has been said here before, depending on who you talk to they are either bent...
I was told that the Puffing Billy's insurance people wanted to see maintenance records for that boiler back to when it was built. Something they...
By repute, the custom of using corks in an oil pot was brought to the LMS by Stanier as GW practice and first applied to the Princesses. So the...
Superficially perhaps - if you ignore the wheel diameter... Actually the Bulldogs were replaced on a lot of their turns with a loco with a number...
Yes - it gives access to Maenofferen Bach shed. see picture here : https://www.festipedia.org.uk/w/images/5/54/MinfforddYard3-waylead-E_BellassB.jpg
Actually a number 4 boiler is correct for a 4-4-0 county. Used in common with the 43xx 2-6-0, the 3150 flavour of prairies and the Aberdares. Not...
Agreed. Much/most of what Osmium says is fair comment, but the sample of designs proving the point as somewhat small when the Bear was built. Big...
When I first started firing on the FR in the mid 80s (just a couple of years after the BF reopening) it was obvious that much of the...
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