They may have had to put it out to tender but there was nothing to stop them selecting the one with a proven track record
I think that's what I said so I find it odd that the NRM didn't stick with them. When I said excessive I meant the way 44871 kept the WCR and RTC...
For the correct way of working Steam/vac/air braking see video on the Clan Line thread. The same system is used on SNG, Tangmere, Blue Peter and...
Maybe the enthusiast fraternity are saving their pennies for Bahamas over Shap and Ais Gill in March with Vintage Trains
I don’t think they supported her or she would still be there.
Not sure about that, I remember way back before the line was reopened, talking to another member who was a BR civil engineer. He said that when...
I had a bit of a falling out with the railway during the tenure of the previous MD and cancelled my membership as did others but the railway now...
There is something special, 29th March Bahamas over Shap and the S&C with proper Mk1 coaches.
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Unfortunately I don't think we can trust anything the A1 Trust tells us.
That is a good point made about how railways and other transport affected our routine. From the age of 14 I used to spend time in the school...
I think what you have said there is closer to the truth than what I read in the Tornado Telegraph.
By 67 they were all at Kingmoor with very little work to do, this sort of working was hardly what they were designed for. It was the same on the...
That’s a documentary made in 1960, I remember my mother calling me in from the garden to watch it, I was 13 years old! I’ve got it on DVD
As a follow up to my previous story, here's a couple of rather poor pictures I took at Appleby, the two I took on the journey at 1/60th second...
That's unfortunate but the selection process seems to be a lot tougher now. As a member of support crew I had to take the PTS course with a...
The same reason we couldn't go all the way to Carlisle I'm sure.
Yes there is, it’s the one owned by Belmond and has been under slow restoration for a long time.
It’s become a jobswoth’s world now, in the 60s I’m sure at least the middle management got involved themselves, an example is how I came to join...
Some of the younger generation on Nat Pres used to a railway covered by CCTV and imprisoned behind palisade fencing may find it surprising to know...
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