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    Edward Thompson: Wartime C.M.E. Discussion

    Pretty tricky business case replacing the D20/30/34/16s with more modern like for like I should think. A lot of 4-4-0s lasted fifty to sixty years...
    Post by: 30567, Feb 5, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    WCME/CME 2024

    the RTC blurb says steam from Manchester. But looking at the LE move at Carnforth at 1049 I wonder if it will be T and T diesel to Carnforth then...
    Post by: 30567, Feb 3, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    Jubilees (plus other off topic meanderings which includes cats, stone roses and commers)

    Why was 45581 a legend? Is it because it was the last one at Farnley Jct? Was it a particularly strong loco? It's always interesting when...
    Post by: 30567, Feb 3, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    WCME/CME 2024

    Is steam quite unusual Man Picc--Eccles--Wigan?
    Post by: 30567, Feb 3, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    WCME/CME 2024

    Why do you suspect that? I suspect the markets are pretty different. Main line--- people with time constraints, different preferences re...
    Post by: 30567, Feb 2, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    WCME/CME 2024

    Well let's hope you're right. It will be interesting to see how the next few load. Meanwhile I'm sure Mr Shireman will be open to offers.
    Post by: 30567, Feb 1, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    Flying Scotsman

    https://gb.readly.com/magazines/steam-days/2023-11-14/6551bb7f87462b70007e5684 Here's a nice article with a bit about the A3s on the S and C. You...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 31, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    RTC 2024

    I guess you are far from alone. I'd say the mist will clear soon after Easter when it becomes apparent how WCR are resourcing the Jacobite and the...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 31, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    Flying Scotsman

    Including FS of course. Next time she should be turned out in early 50s condition with 38C shedplate etc. Which brings us back to the point at...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Do you know I nearly wrote that I thought Holbeck's Scots were for going to Carlisle and Glasgow. I forgot to mention that Bushbury's Jubilees,...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Interesting Fred. I thought until '59 all the Scots and rebuilt Patriots were on the western section. The first locos I recall at St P bigger than...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Flying Scotsman

    Yes. Given that there was nothing bigger than a Jubilee out of St Pancras before 1959(?), they must have been capable machines on the Palatine,...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 30, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    RTC 2024

    See post 208 on the WCME thread. We could do with a lesson from @Romsey on how the delay system works for charter trains, does capping work in...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 29, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    Flying Scotsman

    FS is obviously in a category of its own and must be a centrepiece of whatever is put on in 2030 for the 200th anniversary of Rainhill. But more...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 29, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    WCME/CME 2024

    But in any case Tangmere is not 46115. Would you let Tangmere out unassisted to go up Shap, Ais Gill and particularly Wilpshire with eleven on in...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 27, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    Flying Scotsman

    I think Canal's duties were over the Waverley (and to Silloth). Did the TV have any traffic which warranted an A3? The photos are northwards from...
    Post by: 30567, Jan 27, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    RTC 2024

    45212 would be a good bet.
    Post by: 30567, Jan 27, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    WCME/CME 2024

    That's the diesel move.
    Post by: 30567, Jan 27, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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    Flying Scotsman

    If that's true, I wonder why they kept four at Carlisle Canal all those years rather than swapping them for some combination of A2s and V2s.
    Post by: 30567, Jan 26, 2024 in forum: Steam Traction
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    Steam Dreams 2024

    How about Worcester to Stratford on Jul 16 for £45?
    Post by: 30567, Jan 25, 2024 in forum: What's Going On
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