With the overhaul costs for any loco usually starting around £100k and often averaging £250k I think you will find cash flow dictates the speed of...
Timetables now on the web site and rover tickets should be available as normal I understand. http://www.southdevonrailway.org/News-a ... d.html#WTT
I think the SDR would love to overhaul the Austerities and see them earning their keep elsewhere but there is pressure on workshop space....
A TWO is needed because most of the new works will be built on land that was not part of the original railway and therefore statutory authority is...
The plans are approved and planning consent granted. All it needs now is the Transport & Works Order which should be through sometime next year...
What's complicated about the SDR methods Scorpian?
I heard he's a succesful local businessman and a real railway enthusiast - sounds like an ideal combination to me
Those figures do look pretty awful and there aren't many railway people on that board. Now they have a new GM from a non railway background,...
Apparently she's been out of traffic for a while and needs a full overhaul. Recent overhauls of similar engines seem to have cost around...
Lots of interesting speculation chaps but the SDR GM explains the reasoning in the latest edition of their members mag. 3803 was originally...
3205 and 1420 will appear sometime next year I believe, 3205 first probably. Both need boiler work. Turntable awaits financing - no doubt...
talk about locos going somewhere I see 4588 is advertised for sale in Heritage Railway.
I hear DVR shareholders have been sent a newsletter - The Dart Valley Telegraph. Full of typos and dreadful pics but has an architects sketch of...
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