Is there much in the archives as to the reasons for the choice of Gresley? Was there a process?
Electrification killed them. Therefore Bulleid pacifics are superior as a) they outlasted both, and b) survived in an area of electrification...
An interesting question is "when did Gresley start thinking about the V4"? If he knew of the issue and was planning an answer, but was stopped by...
I love the way there is a combine harvester in the background of one pic... I'll pony up for a sleeper or two (employment situation permitting) Mike
Good stuff. Does anyone know if it was coincidence or design that made the wheels similar (did the patterns need amending?). Is it the V4 that...
Well, at least its better than all that DaVinci code stuff he normally writes about... oh *David* Brown... as you were... Got my copy of the book...
Duly ordered.
If you look at the 3d drawings on the P2 page, the steam passages look pretty convoluted on what is presumably a cannonical Gresley front end, so...
In rehab... there'll be a big piece in Hello^h^h^hSteam Railway "my middle big-end hell"
I'm now imagining engines as luvvies - A4s being primadonnas, riley's black 5s as those in tv soap-opera work "it's not hollywood, but it's good...
Slick Bass has got a good dyno up in Andreas, if it can manage a 200 bhp superbike, it can probably manage a manx tank... balancing on the single...
They would find a level-crossing even harder, one suspects
Good stuff! Here's hoping the foundry in question get something out of the casting.
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You could talk to North Bay, and get them to do 4:3 copy of Southwold...
+1 Spartacus.
Thanks Ray I always love a ride on the tram as it is so unusual. Hope it gets shown the love during this period of Manx government interest.
Good luck! Hope it goes well for you.
I wonder how much loss you'd get from having two live steam joints on each end? (And would the exhaust from both come back as well?) - either by...
I'm always vaguely surprised how little cross-fertilisation there was between the Manx and Irish systems. Nice to see the railway getting some...
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