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It's a laudable intention, but seriously, why shackle yourself to a corpse?

Some of the Thorpe Park stock including one of the 4-4-0DHs has been acquired for a new 2' gauge line at Blair Drummond Safari Park, due to open this coming Autumn. The picture here is a Photoshop job. https://blairdrummond.com/things-to-do/train/

And latterley the former coal merchant's outside Chertsey station. That's in the Thames series and after he finishes his probation in Brighton. In the ABC series he's initially based in London and then moves to Birmingham before going to prison.

An atmospheric bit of standard action, supposedly at King's Cross, at the start of this early episode of Public Eye.

It will be nice to have a decent RTR 14XX at last to replace the ancient Hornfix model and the DJ dud, and the 517 opens up a whole new world of Victorian GWR branch line modelling.

Yep, title changed.

Just announced on Dapol's website and Facebook page. https://www.Dapol.co.uk/blogs/news/oo-gauge-4800-14xx-5800-class-0-4-2-locomotive https://www.Dapol.co.uk/blogs/news/oo-gauge-517-class-0-4-2-locomotive

I think most things will fit the VoR, but re: the NGG13 it's worth noting that the VoR appears in no rush to overhaul No.9 despite it being in very good order so it's back down to three big engines - Nos. 7 and 8 and the Garratt - plus the Wren and the Quarry Hunslet for footplate rides.

The Welsh Highland Railway and the Ffestiniog never squabbled; they're the same company. The squabble was between the Ff&WHR on the one hand and the '64 Company or Welsh Highland Heritage Railway on the other, and although the two organisations have patched things up and do now cooperate WHR trains still don't stop at Pen y Mount junction so you can't make a direct connection to the Cambrian at Porthmadog without a long walk from one end of the high street to the other.

Add together the complete Collection X (even after the sale of a couple fo duplicate engines) and the separate 'Rampton' Collection which was already at the VoR and there's no chance of all of it fitting into the new building even after the on-loan Fire Queen and Earl of Berkeley have left again so I'd be very surprised if the VoR did not make use of its other exhibition space in the fullness of time. That said the VoR does have a long term plan to extend the museum using the London Bridge roof so perhaps the former museum at Pant has some other projected use. The VoR seems to keep its operating fleet to a bare minimum however - three big engines plus a couple of small ones for footplate rides - and the BMR requires very large engines so I can't see much of the Rampton Collections actually being retsored to running order let alone running out of Pant. The Kerr Stuart Gwalior Railway pacifics, perhaps?

Obviously on visits to lines in South Wales she'll have to be renamed "Dysglaid."

No idea. The stationary engine is presumably still in situ. Perhaps in due course some of the Rampton collection be exhibited there?

A group of Boston Lodge volunteers have been very quietly building a replica de Winton - named 'Panad' - for the past several years (because just sort of casually building a new steam engine in your spare time without telling anybody is the kind of wondrous thing Boston Lodge does) and although the odd photo has appeared on Facebook this is I think the first official announcement. https://www.pressreader.com/uk/steam-railway-uk/20240501/282041922057167

'Pendyffryn' and 'Redstone' have now been placed on display in the Aber museum. https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/2024/04/19/more-new-exhibits-arrive-in-aberystwyth/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR10aNGEDgrYPxw9bQ3PiSEq_I-Vm7dDrz6zMTTzTQZFdHw2MUcHa81dU5g_aem_AelBenSsTb66-wa_3tMH9wvYWIpT9b13ZgUZl59hdvZy8xNGrdgtcE7d16zlUrnTsY9jogipR5023h1OtEYTGfmv

Three more items from Collection X are now on display at the VoR: https://www.rheidolrailway.co.uk/2024/04/18/new-exhibits-in-the-museum/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3SKmmOsjiGtah1nafbmuqcITG-yPu0lATVB3af0nVwAuQko4JB15UoxN4_aem_AdO-1qMvbz8-ymmQwBNzpDqd4lkiF6IJ6ojLtS3Vk8PzBUU_GrcoHolIR5hFYF5m2kTi6LcnXeVoQEJCSo0FPzLz