Depends on the heritage line - I've crewed a Hall, Manor, Large Prairie, Small Prairie, 5700, Standard 2 and Caley Tank at Shackerstone and I'd...
I really don't think we need to be behaving so childishly when it comes to steam locomotive preferences. For grown adults we can be unnecessarily...
Well you'd probably still have lost because it looks like the loco most ready to swoop in beat the Grange would be Beachy Head, wouldn't it?
It was initially planned that running in would take place before the gala and then the gala would be it's first public services. Then it shifted...
But then, if you start running a train with 4, 5, or 7 engines working (1 per carriage), is that not less efficient than having a 4, 5, or 7 coach...
The drawback of a DMU is the more inflexible capacity of a 1/2/3 car DMU set than a 5/6 coach Mark 1 set. Plus they are less likely to have...
*IF we get a functional Govt again would be a more realistic statement... I think what is more realistic is the next government being less...
I remember Jonnie Pay saying their event with the O1 didn't sell as much as they thought it would. Maybe the O1 just isn't a big enough draw?
I would be curious to know what that cylinder modification would be - reducing their diameter or repositioning the existing ones so they are...
Well obviously it's determining the historical alternative reality accuracy of a scenario where Lord Nelson is restored to operation at the Mid...
Would they have modified the tenders or just given them new LMS / BR designs with scoops? Also, it is confirmed that the Scots were based on LN...
I would imagine each will be announced when the required agreements and paperwork for the visits have been completed to the satisfaction of all...
Send it to the Glos Warks so Cheltenham can run out of Cheltenham?
TBF my family and I saw Blue Peter running at the NYMR three years in a row during holidays in Pickering from 2000-2002, and the question we...
No, that went a number of years ago. I believe it went to a (different) farm belonging to the owners
I know there is an ongoing (drawn out) programme of tidying up the site at Ruddington to try and minimise what is on site and in particular the...
Post on facebook confirming that 5199 has returned to Shackerstone after her trip to Didcot and is due for some repairs to hopefully enable an...
Can you link said post? GCRN social media is basically non existent these days so I would be curious to know where you saw this?
A well run organisation would look back over the reasons that have led to the overhaul being delayed and drawn out, identify with hindsight what...
Tbh there are many different locos where the ideal fire shape is thick at the back, and thin at the front. Pretty much any Great Western loco...
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