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  1. Platelayer
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    Foxfield Railway - Accident Report

    Underlines the relevance of the 'heritage railway press' to those who are actually concerned with running heritage railways?
    Post by: Platelayer, Mar 4, 2011 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  3. Platelayer
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    Manxman

    Really!
    Post by: Platelayer, Mar 2, 2011 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
  4. Platelayer
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    Manxman

    She was sold out of service to Preston Docks where she served as a nightclub. Known locally as the 'loveboat', you had to have two heads not to...
    Post by: Platelayer, Mar 2, 2011 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Foxfield Railway - Accident Report

    On the Festiniog (in the late 1970s/early 1980s when I was a fireman there), the fireman exited the moving footplate whilst the train was...
    Post by: Platelayer, Mar 2, 2011 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  6. Platelayer
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    Which locomotive would you most like to see return to steam?

    and, interestingly, now available for sale if anyone is interested
    Post by: Platelayer, Feb 7, 2011 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  7. Platelayer
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    Embsay and Bolton Rly

    About 43 miles..........
    Post by: Platelayer, Dec 22, 2010 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  8. Platelayer
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    snow and steam

    Another very frightening thought.
    Post by: Platelayer, Dec 21, 2010 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Snow on the North York Moors

    The ships wheel simply lowers or raises the plough. The height setting of the plough in relation to the rail head is governed by two devices,...
    Post by: Platelayer, Dec 10, 2010 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Flying Scotsman

    You can always tell a Yorkshireman...........
    Post by: Platelayer, Dec 3, 2010 in forum: Steam Traction
  11. Platelayer
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    Manxman

    f*ck me, you're funny
    Post by: Platelayer, Nov 20, 2010 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
  12. Platelayer
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    Because she is female......

    I just wonder whether the happening is fact or fiction? His point.
    Post by: Platelayer, Nov 15, 2010 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
  13. Platelayer
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    Because she is female......

    Why should a female driver have to prove competency? If she has passed the inspector for the railway then that is it. Directors of any...
    Post by: Platelayer, Nov 13, 2010 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    A pleasant visit to Woody Bay

    I, too, called in at Woody Bay over the Summer on my way to a holiday in Cornwall. It was a Saturday but the train was diesel-hauled as a...
    Post by: Platelayer, Nov 10, 2010 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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    MT/276

    Can anyone provide, or point me, to an electronic copy of MT/276, please? Failing that, a hard copy and I'd be happy to pay postage or pick up....
    Thread by: Platelayer, Nov 8, 2010, 0 replies, in forum: Locomotive M.I.C.
  16. Platelayer
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    TS Dover.

    Judging by comments like that I'm surprised you need a shave.
    Post by: Platelayer, Sep 27, 2010 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    SVR Loco Newsy News / discussions

    I'd be interested to hear comments on the wording above: 'and is in typical run down NCB condition'. Were NCB locos typically in run down...
    Post by: Platelayer, Sep 27, 2010 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Will 'Thomas the Tank Engine' be sold?

    How much of a license fee do HIT charge? and how much would you consider is enough, in comparison?
    Post by: Platelayer, Sep 23, 2010 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Will 'Thomas the Tank Engine' be sold?

    But have the alternative events put on by railways who refused to accept HIT conditions been successful and have they abstracted sales, d'you think?
    Post by: Platelayer, Sep 23, 2010 in forum: Heritage Railways & Centres in the UK
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    Seen on the Thames today

    The one on Coast was VIC32 from Crinan. I think that VIC96 now resides at Chatham having been at Maryport for many years.
    Post by: Platelayer, Sep 11, 2010 in forum: Everything Else Heritage
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    Dr Syn

    If what has been reported is correct, it seems an amazing mix up of priorities. On the one hand a paint job that, after all, is just there to stop...
    Post by: Platelayer, Sep 10, 2010 in forum: Narrow Gauge Railways
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