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  1. rodent279
    Were there ever any 3 or 4 cylinder singles? If not, why not?
  2. rodent279
    Seems to be a lot of this about. What is happening to our people?
  3. rodent279
    I understand that, but they didn't want to go to the expense of the tunnels, cuttings and embankments that would be necessary to keep the grades to a manageable level. Enlarging on the above, I believe the reason the sainted IKB used timber for most of the Cornish viaducts was because the initial cost was less than for stone viaducts. In other words, the Cornwall Railway and to a lesser extent the SDR were built on the cheap.
  4. rodent279
    I guess there just wasn't the need for the haulage capacity of an 0-8-0 until the early years of the C20th, and engines were not heavy enough to warrant 4 axles earlier than that.
  5. rodent279
    I think that has been explored before, and the answer was something like "not very well." Something to do with the positioning of the cylinders all driving the leading axle necessitating a long boiler and front heavy design.
  6. rodent279
    I believe Kenneth Leech did a pictorial survey of all Castles as well. He certainly did for the Kings, but there was only 30* of them. *Yes I know 6007 was more or less a completely new engine after the 1936 Shrivenham accident.
  7. rodent279
    I suppose short sighted, parsimonious thinking is nothing new. The railway was only built there because it was the cheapest up-front option. Imagine the D@!ly M@!l headlines today if that was done....idiot builds railway right alongside sea front that suffers direct hits from Atlantic weather systems.......
  8. rodent279
    Knowing our great & glorious DfT's ability for forward planning, they'll get stored in the open air for 5 years pending further use, then when someone does want them, they'll be too far gone to bring back into use.
  9. rodent279
    Preservation era I know, but just look at the difference in shade of blue on those two blue & grey mk1's.
  10. rodent279
    Don't know whether it is still running, but here's what a steam turbine loco sounds like.
  11. rodent279
    Don't really associate 25's with the Southern, how common were they in later years, say post-1975?
  12. rodent279
    I can't imagine any kind of tourist in Swindon, let alone French ones!
  13. rodent279
    I really must stop drooling in public....
  14. rodent279
    That's good. East-west links are OK in that part of the world, its the N-S links that are often lacking
  15. rodent279
    But do we trust people like that anymore?
  16. rodent279
    It takes two to tango. Followers have to own their part. Having many followers does not make one a "good" leader.
  17. rodent279
    No. 1 is getting elected. Nothing else comes close.
  18. rodent279
    Question- discounting EMU types, were any mk1's ever fitted with Gresley bogies?
  19. rodent279
    You reckon? Personally I don't hold out much hope, but we'll see.
  20. rodent279
    It'll go down a storm with *@!£¥ ∆π€¥| readers and @& News viewers, and that's all that it needs to do.
  21. rodent279
    Sorry, bit OT, but if this thread on twitter (X if you prefer) is halfway true then I can't blame anyone's decision not to use the train. Have we really sunk so low? What shocks me is not that we have, but that it is just passively accepted, shrug of the shoulders, what can you expect?
  22. rodent279
    GJC understood the importance of long travel long lap valves, and that, married to good boiler design, was the secret.
  23. rodent279
    What are the relative merits of steel vs copper inner fireboxes? Steel being stronger & cheaper than copper, why did it take so long to catch on?
  24. rodent279
    Could it be deliberately set like that to prevent lose ballast getting stuck between switch blade & rail?
  25. rodent279
    Nothing new there, one was spotted in 1948.....
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