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    Peterborough North

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    Too few Duchess/Coronations so their contribution to the LMS overall was limited. For me, it has to be the Black Five or 8F 2-8-0.  As the 8F was chosen by the MoS during the war and built by other railways, it gets my nomination.

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    The Forum Jokes Thread

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    12 hours ago, peach james said:


    That must have been a LONG time ago- I mean, I worked with a Air Bos'n who had been around prior to 1967.   :)  I've no formal training in nav, but I spent 2 years on boats teaching navigation...I picked up a little bit of it.

     

    James

    The later days of WW2.

    The Forum Jokes Thread

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    Chief Petty Officer Pertwee in my day!

     

    At one time I had a colleague who had been a sub-lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Navy Volunteer Reserve.  Apparently in one report/assessment, against "Navigation" his CO entered a single question mark!

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    Peterborough North

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    I'm very fond of the N2 but it was not universally popular.  The K3 has a very good claim and the singles and atlantics were very successful in their time.  But surely, the choice has to be the original A1, famous in its own right, progenitor of a whole string of famous locomotives and the starting point of a life-long hobby for so many?

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    Peterborough North

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    The latest issue of the GNRS magazine contains an excellent article titled "Thameslink's Victorian Predecessors", dealing with through workings between the GN suburban lines and those of the LC&DR/SER.  The cover photo is of a SECR train of ten coaches hauled by 0-4-4T 184 heading north past Belle Isle.

     

    So for the successful integration of north/south services across London more than 100 years ago, my vote goes to the Q1 class tank engine design!

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    'Adieu to Anthracite'; an ode to sitting round a coal fire at home.

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    I was brought up with coal fires and loved them.  Somehow the heat penetrated the body and made you feel warm inside.  They were also good for roasting chestnuts!

     

    I can remember the London fogs of 1953.  The family had been to a social event on a Saturday night.  The fog was so thick, my mother and elder sister had to guide my father, driving the family Ford, by walking in the gutter and shining a torch on a paper held behind their backs.

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    Peterborough North

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    The favourites must be the D11 and O4, with the J11, A5 and C4 in the running too.  However, I recently read an article about GC locos by Dick Hardy in an old Steam World (I can't quote the issue).  From personal experience, he rated the B4 Imminghams and their near cousins, the B1s,  and reported that many GC footplate staff could not understand why the C4s had been multiplied in preference to the more sure-footed 4-6-0s.

     

    So in deference to such an authority, my vote goes to the B4.

    Wright writes.....

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    Whilst we were tackling a little visitor in our loft, Mrs 2750 at last persuaded me that I would never get around to reading again all the magazines stored up there.  I've been working my way through them, saving items of interest and binning the rest and today came across the July 1996 edition of Steam World, edited by one Chris Leigh. 

     

    I don't know if TW has seen this but the title page has several shots of the M&GN overbridge at Little Bytham, whilst inside is an article by Peter Kay on it's demolition in March 1964.

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    Wright writes.....

    in Modelling musings & miscellany

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    20 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:

     

    Fine apart from a lack of instructions which seems to be common with pre owned kits. Not really a problem as it doesn't look like a complicated kit apart from the valve gear and I'm assuming the construction will be similar to others such as the B1 and K1 which I do have the instructions for.

     

     

     I may have a set of K2 instructions somewhere, which I could scan.

    Peterborough North

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    I have a soft spot for Atlantics and for the current poll am again tempted in that direction.   Romance aside, however, the most successfull NB loco in  terms of numbers and longevity has again to be an 0-6-0, in this case the J36. 

    Football Focus

    in Wheeltappers

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    Given the choice of watching weekly football against the top teams of Europe or the lower reaches of the Prem, I think some form of European league is inevitable.  However, the politics of who will run it, whether it should be performance based or subject to political/geographical selection, and how to allow promotion and relegation within these constraints, it will take a long time to resolve - Brexit has probably delayed it by some years.  So maybe not in my lifetime, but eventually....

     

    And as African, Asian and North American teams develop, it could itself become a feeder  for a genuine World Series league. 

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