The old boiler has now been scrapped but it was buggered anyway. I don't really see the point of taking a useful engine and rebuilding it into a...
There's a lot of Chinese whispers about the ALCo, what is wrong with it and what to do with it. As far as I know plans for drastic changes have...
Can't see much happening in the near future unless it was farmed out to someone else. Lyd, Taliesin, and Linda all have boiler tickets expiring...
Yes they have less heating surface but you can just make the firebox bigger because it doesn't project below the frames. Heywood deliberately...
So this loco won't be a success based on the exploits of 3 engines of a totally different gauge and design, being used for a task for which they...
Being in direct competition with one of the best Heritage Railways in the UK, as well as being in an area with a glut of family friendly tourist...
You'd probably want to fit front and back pony trucks to Fiji unless you're going to run all your trains at 10mph. It doesn't do bends....
Looking at the 2:1 valve gear it's easy to see why the middle cylinder would run poorly if the valve gear was worn. Any lost motion at valve rods...
Usually a basic timetable is published online showing times of passenger trains in advance of the event. If you want more detail they sell an...
The trains were running again when we popped in last month. Only diesel hauled for now though. There has been much work done to the track...
Shame they haven't already. With Lyd and Taliesin on the way out, next year might be a bit thin on the ground. Especially without the mythical...
You joke but we have Welsh Ponys old frames and boiler in the waggon tracks shed. We contemplated if it would be possible to put them on...
I think the fact it sheared off one of the crank webs was the final nail in the coffin. It had all sorts of other expensive failures before that,...
I think the issue with Boyd isn't that he didn't have access to what we know now. It's more that he did but didn't use it or even cross reference...
That doesn't tell us much though. We know it wasn't running after 1929 as there were no tubes in the boiler. Tim
Little Giant is taken into the works in May 1924 and stripped for heavy overhaul. A report to the board around that time says the chassis is in...
There's a photo of 812( PTR 25) on the gwr813 page showing lining on the cabside. I suspect if you had a higher resolution version you'd be able...
Glan-y-pwll depot restored as was with the turntable from Boston Lodge, replica signal box. Demonstration line up to the Llechwedd incline for...
Yes those two locos were put in the shed expecting to work the next day. But that never happened. Which is why the restoration of Merddin was a...
Probably a victim of circumstance more than anything. Originally the plan was for both Welsh Pony and Princess to be restored. Of the engines...
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