Bagnall 2746 "The Duke". I have not been able to work on the loco as much as I would like in recent weeks. I swore to behave myself and...
Definitely part of the IVO Peters collection, and under copyright. However, the originals are far better quality, this material has been...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke Back off 2 weeks holiday last Saturday to find the boiler team hard at work. The crown stays are being ground off flush...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke. We are pursuing "option c" set out above through David Wright and Locomotive Maintenance Services at Loughborough....
No. We will tap and plug the top row at the smokebox end. Tim
Bagnall 2746 The Duke Work has now begun on the firebox, and thereby hangs a tale which is perhaps worth telling in detail. The Austerities were...
Look again, and I think you will find that almost all of the video shows a shunting operation, not a lifting operation. No actual lifting is seen....
One of the earlier posters was wondering about new rail cranes. The logical extension of recent trends is the road/rail crane, and there is a...
The Taylor steam crane was sold to a private collector at Appleby Frodingham RPS, Scunthorpe. The runner wagon got chopped with the bogies going...
Looking solely and strictly at the 2746 project, I would hesitate to put any value on a steam locomotive just on the basis that has a boiler...
One you have missed is the "other Rother valley" which tried to set up at Westhorpe Colliery near Killamarsh. Unfortunately they only began after...
The Tunnel, The Tramp and the Winding Engine. Back in the middle 1980’s, if you were looking for railway track and did not have much money, the...
I am hoping someone here will be able to help with this. The track gang at Wirksworth have been slaving through the winter moving and rebuilding...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke. If I didn't live in Buxton I could believe Spring is just around the corner. Warm (ish) sunshine at Wirksworth on Saturday...
I would be extremely surprised if the insurance company would be allowed to practice age discrimination, the law applies to everyone. The point is...
What would you do if a woman office worker showed showed up? Would you refuse to allow a woman on the footplate on the grounds that you don't...
In the fullness of time, many things come to pass. 48624 is currently and temporarily painted black. Tim
Bagnall 2746 The Duke The brake shaft is now back in place. I was not looking forward to lifting this extremely heavy object in a confined space,...
Bagnall 2746 The Duke The new year gales made short work of the tarpaulin, or one very long rip. However it was oversized and we cut it down from...
My own take on this is that, in the long term, you can preserve the operation in which the machine was used, or the machine - but not both....
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