Perhaps it is time to update your first hand knowledge?
Do we? - where are these plans & how are they to be funded?
As somebody who regularly footplates on both the SVR and WSR I think you need to take a trip now on both to decide which is currently the roughest...
As the boiler itself comes nowhere near the loading gauge envelope that statement is open to being challenged. Wasn't the centre line of the...
Maybe its time for a few awkward truths and rather direct comparisons then with cruise ships, air travel, HGV infested motorways and other much...
Yes there is a national shortage of suitable, serviceable and reliable locomotives which folk don't seem to get. It is about to get worse as locos...
I have found the GM receptive to constructive suggestions. Hinting that you have some on here is frankly pointless if you are not prepared to...
Have you written to the GM with your ideas c/- the Catering Manager?
It is no surprise that many (most?) of the steam locos now in service are operated in a way which earns solid funding for the next overhaul...
Just a very big NO! - for several reasons.
And still the pointless speculation, unnecessary comment and "dancing on the head of a pin" trying to decide what this or that wording implies...
The differences between a No 1 boiler & a No 7 could easily be hidden under No 7 outline cladding & a No 7 diameter smokebox. All that is needed...
Perhaps a non working but externally complete 4709 would fit the bill? After all it will be of little use to heritage lines and is unlikely to...
Possibly but then most of us see our role as preservation (as was as far as is sensibly possible) and not ongoing development.
With a GWR loco the cylinder cocks are not generally needed for the rest of the day once the cylinder block is hot and the regulator does not blow...
IC cylinders & rings do wear & the cylinders are rebored and fitted with oversize pistons and rings where needed.
I suggest that there are quite a few differences to take into account but firstly with GW piston valve locos we expect the rings to last 20,000 to...
Interesting to note from the GWS Annual Report for the year ending 31st Jan 2022 that the 4709 fund had just £80k carried forward. That is barely...
On the WSR such a group is known as "Trackers" as described here: West Somerset Railway - The longest Heritage Railway in England....
The SVR Bridgnorth workshop and Riley's are quite different places. The SVR site is all rail connected so that a boiler can be lifted off a loco's...
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