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Jim, forgive me for being blunt - but if the locomotive is under new ownership, and the GCR would be happy to continue to be the base for a new...
I intend to make a few inquiries, once I've done the bulk of my work and other pressing issues this week, to see what is currently happening....
Learn something new everyday!
My late grandfather did criticise it at the time. I wish I had been a little older to understand. I don't think that thinking was correct and...
Still makes me angry 15 years after it happened.
The more I think about the Highlander name, the more I ponder why they didn't go for something like Maid of Glamis - one of the unused P2 names -...
Good god that's a stretch and a half. I was stood next to the loco just over a week ago and what you are saying is disingenuous in the extreme....
Spot on John.
I have to be frank, I do not want to see scores of "never wuzzas" cluttering up this thread Hermod, with respect. However, thank you for the...
I think it's trite to see the Baby Deltic as a simple "cut and shut" class 37 tbh! You treat each case on its own merit. Steam and diesel new...
The Baby Deltic project does not deserve the criticism it is getting. That thing is one of the most carefully planned out and comprehensive...
No, I think you're probably on the money there. The two Bulleid diesels and the Raworth Electric probably prove that in spades.
Recently read Kevin Robertson's latest version of his book on Leader. It's an eye opener, both for the potential and also for the monumentally...
You would still be right that it was originally built for plateway, and rebuilt for edge rail operation, but it was still the technical first for...
Point of order: Puffing Billy is NOT a rack locomotive. It was one of the first ones used for the adhesion railway at Wylam Colliery (for which...
Yes, as outlined here: https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/about-us/press-office/national-railway-museum-transfers-2818-steam
Absolutely agree Fred. Can confirm! The P2 issue has its waters muddied by a number of secondary sources, some of whom aim shots at Thompson,...
I'd be interested in your views on my list. I must confess: it is undoubtedly a hard choice for just ten...
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