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On a TV documentary it was stated that the Isle of Wight receives £1 million per annum in rail subsidy. Network Rail then charge £1.25million for...
What's so annoying is the following year both "Hardwicke" and the Midland Compound hauled main line excursions; since then they've been "stuffed &...
Thanks for that. I'd like to play Devil's Advocate and expand your point. With a few exceptions the preserved lines in this country are all former...
Thursday whilst travelling to Edinburgh, just after passing the island of Lindisfarne we passed a green saddle tank in a field on the coast side...
For the current era, I was most surprised at Scunthorpe Steel Works last Summer. A Peckett 0-6-0 (poss 0-4-0) ST worked our train around the site...
I remember an editorial in "Steam Railway" about 1966ish demanding rail enthusiasts become more realistic with their requests as there had been...
According to http://www.uksteam.info/tours/trs11.htm 70000 & 70013 are double heading Bristol to Penzance next April 23rd. Did Brits ever double...
You now have to be nearly 100 years old to remember pre Grouping colours, but everyone seemingly wants to see "Flying Scotsman" as 4472 in Apple...
Interesting thing about deflectors is there were so many designs, yet all trying to solve the same problem; smoke drifting around the front end...
Travelling from BNS - Leics this afternoon I noticed a fireless loco. It was in a play park to the left of the line near South Wigston. Needless...
The 56s & 58s (plus one day the 60s, 66s & 67s) may be of interest to many, but would they ever really earn their keep on a preserved line? I'm...
This season some football clubs have occasionally allowed serving members of the armed forces in for just a fiver or given completely free...
Thanks for the regular updates. Two weeks time is the S&D weekend with the 13.10 non stop P'boro' - Wansford double headed by the 4F and Standard...
D8525 (blue livery) behind the 17 is it a trick of the light (or my eyes), but is that a maroon painted 08?
http://www.thedockyardrailway.co.uk/steam.htm gives a history of the loco and http://www.thedockyardrailway.co.uk/photoannie.htm shows it in M&GN...
20142 now NOT coming; http://www.wnxxforum.com/interactive/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9210&start=225
Thanks for those photos Corbs. The line past the Grosvenor Hotel was last used I believe in 1965 by a class 14 diesel. Anyone confirm please? At...
How back engineered would the preservation movement wish to go? The original form was with a 280psi boiler and the cab was narrow which limited...
Are the inhabitants of Dornoch known as dornochers?
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