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    Support 80097 - Kickstarter Project Now Live - Great Donation Rewards

    80097 is a BR 4MT in its final stages of restoration and the Bury Standard 4 Group has launched it's Kickstarter project to raise £16k for the super-heater elements. Its anticipated that it'll steam this year on the East Lancs Railway, so support the project and donate - there are footplate...
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    Optimum number of platforms

    Wouldn't there be quite a lot of variables with this, apart from frequency of arriving trains? You'd need to know average unload / load time, length of train (longer trains take longer to load), averages passengers per carriage (or assume 1 type of train always), peak volumes (ie, rush hour...
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    New Bury Standard 4 Group Site

    Must have been a gremlin - seems ok now unless you can link me to the page?
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    New Bury Standard 4 Group Site

    Hi All Just finished an upgrade to the Bury Standard 4 Group site - let me know what you think and sign up if you aren't a member yet so it can be finished and be running again soon www.burystandard4group.org.uk Jason
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    Old Copies of Magazines - Railway World, etc

    Hi All, If any of you collect some of the old railway mags - get yourself down to the East Lancs Railway, and find the Bury Standard 4 Group's shop (its at the end of platform 2 in an old goods coach) as the shop is packed with them - I picked up some Railway World's from 50s for a few quid -...
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    Hornby P2

    According to Hattons - a couple of weeks... http://www.ehattons.com/60224/Hornby_R3207_Class_P2_2_8_2_2001_Cock_O_The_North_in_LNER_livery_Main_range_version_Etched_n/StockDetail.aspx
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    SNG 60007 at ELR for Autumn Gala

    In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, announced on their website here http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/news/?item=100 Jason
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    Preserved line driver experience days

    ELR post their types and dates here http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/things-to-see-do/footplate-experience/course-dates/ I did a steam engine FXP last September on 80080 and it's brilliant. Shovelling coal is harder than you think - practice chucking mud round your garden first...
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    Spare Railway Metals...

    All over the UK, you often see old rails, either placed on the lineside, or between the rails of the current tracks - is there any value in these for scrap or melting down and being re-used for something else? Theres so many dumped all over the network, surely these something they can do with...
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    Lineside Equipment Question

    Thats great, exactly what it was - thanks to all that answered
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    Lineside Equipment Question

    Hi I've always been meaning to find out what a piece of particular line side equipment is, and I can't seem to find out by Googling, so here goes. Forgive the description, but hopefully someone will know what I mean... They aren't all over the network, usually around junctions or sidings...
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    Video of 61264 & 45407 on The Winter Cumbrian Mountain Express 25/1/14

    I was on it, overheard on the crew radio that it may have been the injectors on the B1 stopped working. Few minutes fix and we were off again
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    Hornby Duke of Gloucester

    Hi All Been trying to figure something out, if anyone has their thoughts or answers, that'd be great.... Hornby last year announced Duke of Gloucester, in 3 variants... Railroad Standard In a pack with 3 Mk1 coaches (new tooling on the coaches) ...and then on the 2014 announcement...
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    Major incident: Train derailed 23 Jan 13 in Manchester

    Went passed yesterday at about 4 and it was still on the MOSI siding with two people in high vis checking out the opposite side Jason

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