According to the UK steam rail tours website, we have no steam workings through Peterborough until mid February. One of the staff at P'boro'...
The link in my post shows an A4 on freight as requested. I threw in the reference to the A3 as an aside. Photo 49 in my (40 year old) copy of the...
Scroll down to the 6th photo; http://www.railalbum.co.uk/steam-locomotives/lner-a4-1.htm and in the book "Images of steam" by Fenman, photo 49...
As stated some pages back in this thread; two were earmarked for the S&D and the other three simply "the Southern Region". I thought they might...
A youtube post of a 9F on the mainline in 1988 shows what we are missing. [MEDIA]
On Facebook, some people posted "Why has Flying Scotsman been given a new number? I thought it was always 4472 and why is it painted dark green"?...
Has there been an increase in check rails in the last 30 years? Evening Star (AFAIK) steamed itself to Shildon in 1975 and hauled main line...
Also in America; a military museum had the only WW1 German tank still in existence. They scrapped it as "it's space was required for a newer exhibit".
There were also far more ticket route options. I read in an article by a retired BR Ticket Inspector that a Kings Cross - Leeds return would...
Thanks for starting this thread. As has been posted, people will start and others will contribute to whichever scheme takes their fancy. However,...
That's because then people took responsibility for their own actions and used common sense.
The FW190 was technically a bomber that day as it was carrying an underslung bomb and was flying a hit & run sortie. Another aircraft is...
Thanks for your replies everyone; I didn't realise this thread would run to three pages. Next time I have a query such as this, instead of asking...
I read that the North Staffordshire Railway was the first pre grouping company to have all it's mainline locos withdrawn from service. Many pre...
Page 46 of today's "Metro"s UK mentions steam for September 12th & 13th departing Watford Junction. We are offered a choice of three routes with...
Not mentioned on here I agree. I learnt about it on the day from an aircraft enthusiast's forum. The news was then on the WNXX forum.
Pity she couldn't have come over with DofC a few years ago.
I read an account of a POW who escaped from a camp in Poland in 1941 and hoping to stowaway on a freight train headed West. He was amazed to see a...
I've been looking through an album of industrial steam locos. At Francis colliery in Ayrshire it was customary for their 0-4-0ST to bank loaded...
In the late 80s / early 90s, a preserved 8F that happened to be in steam at Carlisle was summoned South. There had been a chemical spill and steam...
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