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10 hours ago, flange lubricator said:
Massey Ferguson by the sounds of it .
Is Crossley back in business?
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New SSM J15 etches have arrived, and a new batch of kits are apparently now being packed...
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On 25/4/2024 at 8:51 AM, Darius43 said:
Started this week - MTK Ultrasonic Test Train.
Dear God, I thought my DC Kits Derby Lightweights were bad enough, but to have to tackle MTK......
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41 minutes ago, Westcorkrailway said:
dont know if these ever ran but.....
That's the last iteration of Bulleid's turf-burning testbed, prior to scrapping in about 1957. 356 was colloquially known as the "...Mental Turf Burning Locomotive"
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On 28/4/2024 at 9:54 AM, Irishswissernie said:
This is the 25" plan copyrighht Geohive.
I have about 16 photos on Ernie's Railway Archive mainly late 1950's This Link hopefully will bring up my Kilfree Junction images on flickr
Is a bit like Macmine Junction, but with the branch at the opposite end...
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1 hour ago, Mayner said:
.... immediately before WWI the GSR and Midland were efficient and reasonable profitable companies....
The GSR didn't exist until 1925.
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19 minutes ago, minister_for_hardship said:
.....OHLE was tried and trusted by the 20s and 30s, perhaps that could have been adopted for Dublin suburban rather than the Drumm units in a what if scenario?
Who's to say that the Drumm battery system itself couldn't be further developed?
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The WLW design looks vaguely like one of the Cambrian Railway 0-6-0s over in Wales....
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In terms of £££, what budget was available to the GSR during that period for building new locomotives?
What were the building costs of 800-802, and 850? How much money was left after that?
Note 850 was made possible partly because it made use of some existing Woolwich Mogul parts.
The impression I get is that, money being somewhat scarce, the GSR stuck to the conventional principles that it saw as being cost-effective, or cheap. If the 25 engines of the 342/670/700/710 had not been built, what could the GSR have created for the money not spent?
Innovation tends to cost, so developing a new mixed-traffic design, with Walschaerts outside motion, may not have resulted in as many as 20 engines. There would have had to have been some sort of testing of the initial tank and tender designs to see if they really were of universal use, before asking for approval to build more.
In the case of the 2-6-0, would all-new tenders have been built for them, or salvaged from older withdrawn engines? We don't know.
I'm also looking at the W class moguls in the North which were introduced in 1933:
- As a contemporary design, what did they cost the LMS(NCC) to build?
- Would they have been suitable for use on the GSR network and, if so, on which routes?
- Would it have been realistic for the GSR to ask permission to test a W or two? If such permission was forthcoming and the engine found suitable, would the LMS have then agreed to build them for the GSR? What would that have cost?
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53 minutes ago, Newtoncork said:
.... 1989 ERF. How many others are out there?
How many of them did Bus Eireann have to start with?
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16 hours ago, Branchline121 said:
.... it could also be easily retooled into one of the LMS/BR 2-6-4Ts for Accurascale, which certainly would sell a bit, considering how ubiquitous they were in Britain.
Not that easy. The smokebox/G8AS parallel boiler/firebox and possibly the cylinders and outside motion are directly transferable from the Fowler engine, likewise pony and trailing bogie, but the chassis frames appear different. The 6ft driving wheels are shared with the Stanier Black 5.
The tank and bunker plate work are also Stanier/Fairburn-like, without being a direct swap with either of those 2-6-4T designs.
If it had been that easy, Hornby would have had alternative tooling for their Fowler 2-6-4T ready years ago.
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22 hours ago, Mike Beckett said:
.... official RPIS ....
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10 minutes ago, Mike Beckett said:
Gotta love the combination of tinfoil hattery and faux science on this thread!
D'ye think the Illuminati were involved?
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8 minutes ago, Broithe said:
They'll have the chips out of his locos...
D'ye think yer man's becoming a "seagull manager"?
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22 hours ago, Patrick Davey said:
I have just bought 48 seagulls.......
Don't eat chips in their presence.
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3 hours ago, DERAILED said:
... it is a sorry indictment of preservation in the Republic.
Doesn't say much people's commitment to things generally, either
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On 21/4/2024 at 12:16 AM, DSERetc said:
Did Irish rail ever use the gangways in service? Say for example, Galway and Mayo trains combining at Athlone and opening the gangways to have access through the whole train? Fort William and Oban trains join and divide at Crianlarich on the West Highland line....
I think they still do the divide/rejoin on the North Kent coast route, where down trains divide into Ramsgate and Dover portions, and up trains join, at Faversham.
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1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:
... he had to abandon it. I discussed the implications of restoring it at the time - this is (at a wild guess) fifteen years ago or more. Even then, it was in very ropey condition....
I first saw the Clifden carriage in 1988. I remember it as being relatively complete, in a very faded grey/green shade.
I last saw it in 2001. By then, it had been partly wrapped in sheets to keep some of the elements out, but some of the exterior timbers were missing, exposing the interior.
Presumably a bit more of it has fallen off since then.
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4 hours ago, jhb171achill said:
It is. It’s quite beyond hope now - a complete rebuild would be necessary.
Basically a new-build, so.
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We don't often hear about the oul station at Clifden, but it has made national news....
Is that MGWR 6-wheel carriage still rotting there?
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On 2/4/2024 at 6:05 PM, DJ Dangerous said:
Can't remember how much I paid for mine, but the rewheel to 21mm gauge was cheap.
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8 hours ago, Galteemore said:
...One of the reasons the SLNC limped on as long as it did is that its PW was just good enough to work.…
In some of the SLNC photos, you can actually see the way the rail head undulates on each length due to long-term wear.
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1 hour ago, jhb171achill said:
The more guinness, the more emissions......
Turns the water black in the morning....
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1 hour ago, airfixfan said:
Graham Norton was in that episode as well
"St. Luke's Youth Group!"
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Seagulls!
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....or their droppings....