So why are there locos on short/medium/long-term hire all over the country then?
I've no idea on the deal in question, but a deal where say a loco with a decent box but needing tyres and a general 10 year overhaul got re-tyred,...
As far as I can see, the railway presentation movement is currently more or less flat out to keep the current level of locos out across the...
Baby Deltics weren't their finest hour - I must admit I'd forgotten about them. Possibly their troubles were at least partially caused by the...
The interesting question (at least to my mind) is why English Electric got stuff pretty much right first time (20s, 37, 40s, and 55s all did...
It seems some of the poking about under the bonnet of Roman has paid off - it's made its first move under it's own power in ten years - see the...
I think some 1st gen diesels will probably be with us for some time to come - for RA5 routes there is virtually zero chance of a new class of...
On that loco, where they went wrong involves where the water tanks are! Ashing it out is not one of life's pleasures (and is almost impossibly...
There is more than one type of boiler being ordered, and I think delivery is spaced over the next 4 years or so. As I understand it they are...
Bit modern that Tom, and the wheels are too big for shunting... If you want an engine that's a joy to crew and which knows exactly how to deal...
Possible, but not yet known I think. The railway currently has three "fully functional" diesels - Bagnall 3150 of 1959 "Wolstanton no3", a Thomas...
Worth bearing in mind as well that BR already owned a moderate fleet of them, and found they were quite good for both shunting and some other duties!
Maybe it's just me, but that sounds horrible on a shunting loco. Being able to sling the thing from full forward to full reverse in 2 seconds flat...
One other thought - most of the mock-ups in this thread have wheels that are way too big for a shunting loco.
Inside cylinder or not, for shunting work an Austerity in reality would knock the spots off anything else suggested on this thread - the coal...
There is an interesting subsidiary question - what was the peak in terms of quality of passenger experience from UK rolling stock? Neither...
Possibly Foxfield's one, which was on loan there at one point I think. I'm not sure how much Joe Public will distinguish between something like a...
I'm 30, my formative years were spent traveling on the North Wales Coast behind 37s, in a rakes of scruffy mk1/mk2 coaches, and of a rough...
This could prove a fun game - guess the railway from a close up of their dirtiest loco...
Based on their own locos... [IMG] [IMG]
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