Replica builds for heritage lines.

Aah .... BR catering .... those were(n't) the days! That would only have been warm Red Barrel you were drinking if it was in a large plastic cup. If it was a small plastic cup, t'was lukewarm tea. IIRC, the ham was the faded pink rubber, the stuff looking like a sceptic dressing change was the cheese (best not mention the cheese and tomato). Are you sure you weren't eating a couple of worn beer mats which had soaked together and dried out a bit? It wasn't always easy to tell, I'll grant you.

I wonder if this thread will ever get back on topic?

 

Building replica food and dilapidated buildings for Heritage Lines?

As for "...eating a couple of worn beer mats which had soaked together and dried out a bit" - that's called gluten-free bread

 

Offhand, I forget - but my point is that I've had to walk through to get to a door that's opened to the platform.

 

I would still love to see an LNER J70 (sorry, don't know what the GER class is ). And a J11. Small, but lost to us. How practical they would be hauling half a dozen Mk. 1s is anyone's guess but ISTR the J70s were capable of Herculean efforts in shifting vans of soft fruit between Wisbech and Upwell...

 

The machines concerned were ineffective for their size. Then as now only gricers would approve.

PH

 

There is, and I remember the same at Bentley, where trains now have sophisticated electronics to restrict which doors open. However, standards change, and risks that were once acceptable cease to be. Let us deal with the world as we find it, and proportionate mitigations (at Loughborough Central, a member of staff advising us to walk back met the criteria nicely), rather than bemoaning changes to the world.

 

Indeed, it may. If the approach taken is a rigorous adherence to a purist approach to health and safety, with no concept of proportionality, and no understanding that risks can be mitigated to a reasonable level.

I await the 2nd closure of the NYMR on the day when that is announced, as it will obviously be impossible to run trains to Goathland.

 

Musical interlude time, from one of my favourite proponents of chap-hop:

 

Half of me agrees with you but the situation is that even someone trespassing can gain damages if they injure themselves on an unprotected or unwarned hazard. Reality demands attention to these things.

In any event, tweaking gricers' tails gets tiresome. No more on this issue for you all to harrumph about!

PH

 

A Midland Compound or D49 /Schools (compound) with sligthly smaller wheels and valvery a la chapelon.
Ton for ton will be most powerfull british 75 mph locomotive

 

I'd love to see something like a K3, one of the earliest users of Gresley's 3-cylinder valve gear, provides an LNER loco (which we are very short of in preservation and so perhaps could be argued as the Big 4 company most deserving of new builds), that isn't a Pacific, one of the railway's great unsung workhorses which would genuinely have done anything and gone pretty much anywhere, as there are records of them hauling express passengers, heavy freight and pretty much everything in between. Sadly locos like the V2 and B1 probably caused the K3s to be little celebrated by enthusiasts, and their age probably meant they all went before preservation really got off the ground. If only Drapers at Hull had become the North East's equivalent of Barry Island...
While we're on the subject of the LNER, an ex NE B16, or a J39, or V3 (which I know the A1SLT have proposed) or L1 or O2 (the original Gresley conjugated class) would all be rather nice. All locos which did excellent work for the LNER. The J39 in particular would be interesting and potentially quite easy - didn't the class share several components, including the boiler, with the D49s? Morayshire could be quite useful in the production of such a loco

 

Oh yes please! The J70 (GE class C53) has been on my radar since Jonny Morris read 'Toby the Tram Engine" on a 45rpm record, a 5th birthday prezzie from my aunt. Of course, we'd need a Y6 (GE class G15) too, purely for comparison purposes of course.

I had to look up the J11. What a very pretty little loco. Good call!
https://www.lner.info/locos/J/j11.php

 

I, too, would love to see a K3, the first of Gresley's big-boilered locos. I remember them in their final days on coal trains to March. The last one I saw was used as stationery boiler at New England after they had all been withdrawn. The K3 takes second place in my choice of new builds, behind only the V2. Unless Green Arrow can be put back into operation, my first choice is for a new build single chimney V2.

 

I think if you have the money to build a new V2 you're better going to the NRM, offering to replace Green Arrow's monobloc cylinder with three separate ones and put it back into steam, preserve the monobloc outside of the loco, and then use the spare cash to go towards a K3. Best of both worlds!

 

Me, an Fowler 2P, a Gresley K3, and a Dean Goods.

 

I could see a dean goods happening at some point, don't know anything about the K3? Is that one of the A1s wish lists? Fowler 2P, there are a few people in the patriot project who always say they would love to see one of those.

 

Seems Johnny Morris did quite a few recordings of the Awdry stories, and one called Johnny Morris On The Bluebell Railway - link if interested.

A Gresley K3 seems to be attracting a deal of attention from several quarters

What about much further back in time - say, one of Mr. Sturrock's locomotives? Be good for the NVR, considering that's where Sturrock would have had the locomotive works built for the GNR if it wasn't for Mr. Denison...

 

Nope - V3 and V4.

 

As long as your not intending to build a replica V1,or worse a V2 Don't want no doodlebugs overflying my home