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7027 Thornbury Castle

Rasprava u 'Steam Traction' pokrenuta od svrhunt, 18. Siječanj 2015..

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  1. 35B

    35B Nat Pres stalwart

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    The Charity Commission are not there to micro-manage charities, or second-guess their decisions. It's also worth reading what the RailAdvent piece actually says, which I suspect is less about GWS and more about their journalist:
     
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  2. Jimc

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    I think you've just put 2 and 2 together and made 22. The article about building a Star dates right back to August last year and before the GWS proper made any announcements. It wasn't earlier this year, it was a year ago. Error by the writer.
     
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    mdewell Well-Known Member Friend

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    Do RailAdvent actually have any journalists? Everything I've ever read on there has been a cut'n'paste of stuff published elsewhere (i.e. other people press releases). They seem to have little or no original content.
    PS. I've not actually read the RA piece referred to.
     
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    GWR4707 Nat Pres stalwart

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    I assume they have people who regurgitate the press releases etc to upload? No idea, where this has come from, nothing on the '47xx' website for c. 12 months and the GWS don't tend to say much about overhauls/restorations etc these days so nothing on there either.
     
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    eldomtom2 New Member

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    Well that's most rail "journalism", surely?
     
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    MellishR Resident of Nat Pres Friend

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    Are you saying that a spare number 1 wouldn't fit? Why not? Or are you saying that a spare number 1 would be hard to find? Surely there are plenty in existence and not all on locos currently in traffic.
     
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    Is the boiler off 2861 still kicking about?
     
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  8. GWR4707

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    Dunno, but likewise 7027 has gone to Tyseley and weren't Tyseley trying to sell a no.1 a few years back?

    May as well whack the no.1 on the 7027 frames, knock up some 'Daily Star' name plates and jobs a good un, it's close enough.
     
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    Seems reasonable for a fabricobble scheme.
     
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    Why stop there? Surely there is a loco that can donate a trailing truck knocking around somewhere…
     
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    I see that the 47xx group have broken cover on Facebook..... its not going particularly well....

    Edit - actually reading it, it is just the origin/a rehash of the Rail Advent piece, albeit not sure which came first, with the Star still being mentioned so perhaps the no.1 boiler 7027 frames hash up is back on the cards.
     
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    A Southern Railway/ GWR hash up, Fit an MN boiler onto a castle frame, :eek:
     
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    Corfe Castle?
     
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    5034 .......
     
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  15. Jimc

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    I think we can be rather confident it's not. The press release merely says “could be repurposed". The critical word is *could*. Who's going to do it?

    The GWS proper has stated they have no interest in another 4-6-0. By offloading the County 4-4-0 they have indicated that there aren't going to be any new recreation projects under their banner in the foreseeable future.

    The 4709 people have enough on their plate for the next umpteen years. How many of them will be young enough to want to start on another when it's done?

    Can anyone think of any other bodies that might want to get into something on this scale?

    To my mind the fate of 7027s chassis is what it's been for years, to sit in the back at Tyseley and be a source of parts. Unless of course a gazillionaire sugar daddy pops up from nowhere.
     
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    I don't disagree with you, but considering the negative PR that has already been attracted, why on earth specifically mention it in the piece released by the 47xx group then - taking note of your, entirely correct I suspect, conclusions, somebody who was involved in the drafting is obviously still keen and wants to keep it on the agenda, and after the chaos of what's happened previously one would hope that the GWS hierarchy are in the loop of signing off official 47xx group communications - in terms of who is going to deliver, hopefully the GWS hierarchy are now robust enough to stop such random flights of fancy under their overall umbrella, but who knows the County will be finished soon, so there is a group of individuals who may become free?
     
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    Burg Frankenstein?
     
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  18. Jimc

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    Things that amuse. I just had a reply from the 4709 group on Facebook to a message I sent them - over three years ago!
     
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    They would have been quicker, but first they had to buy the unwanted remains of MySpace and convert the code into a rough imitation of Facebook ...

    Tom
     
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  20. Chris86

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    But can the social media platform be powered by a pannier boiler?
     
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