No firm dates (obviously) but end of 2024 is a definite maybe! Seriously, there is a lot to do still, particularly to the boiler. Pat
Delay minutes are not a 'shrug your shoulders' matter. They have the potential to kill the Swanage Railway. Pat
[ATTACH] Not just a British problem! Allegedly, the Red Army officers treated their squaddies so badly that they had to try to get drinking water...
98363 if it's a Class 3. Pat
At the rate that battery technology seems to be advancing it could be that hydrogen has missed the bus (in a manner of speaking). Pat
I'm sorry to read that. I do enjoy his daily peek at the railway. Pat
It's been a good while since Barrie Hughes updated his blog. Is he OK? Pat
Absolutely! (Another vastly over- and misused word IMHO.) Pat
I guess you got Volker's Kirow crane to site, by road? Hell of a move, that. Pat
Totally OT I know, but is 488 transitioning from Drummond to Urie livery? Pat (I'll just get my coat, shall I?)
Let's get stoking, then! Pat
Looks good to me. Not prototypical, of course, but heigh ho. A Jarvis looks good in almost anything (except dirt, natch). Pat
Seen in Ropley Loco. this afternoon. Tender chassis for 75079 wheeled. 'Dave' waiting for his new cylinder block. Pat[ATTACH]
The Vickers works (now the heart of Brooklands Museum). A friend of my father's worked there as a chippie during the war (not called up until...
Wasn't DS1580, the heavy lifter at the Watercress Line, formerly owned by Mr. Ryder? Pat
Woking has changed a lot since I went to live near there in 1956. And boy oh boy, did it ever need to!:D Pat
Naughty! He / it has more grunt than I imagined. Apparently it took 2 Mk1s and a GBV to Four Marks the other day (3 miles at 1 in 60). Yes it had...
Ideally you would want to use the same system of block working throughout, wouldn't you? I suspect that tokenless block may be more useful, it...
If 62002 is what was known to BR as a Tunny then I doubt it would ever have carried spoil. Sleepers were the staple fare, I believe. Pat
If memory serves (which it frequently doesn't) some of the earliest 'War on the Line' events on the Watercress Line involved a few active members...
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