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sprinterguy
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XC Voyager Refurbishment
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For a colour palette that none but a minority will ever hear of, that doesn't seem like an issue.
Yesterday at 20:13
sprinterguy
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XC Voyager Refurbishment
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So you objected to representative names not being there, and then object when they are? Sounds like you'll never be pleased. I...
Yesterday at 20:04
sprinterguy
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DB class 90 updates
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And is in fact well on it's way to being cosmetically restored at the Crewe Heritage Centre, where it currently resides on loan from...
Tuesday at 10:53
sprinterguy
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lostwin - BR in the mid 80's
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Yeah, it passed into preservation at the embryonic Gloucestershire-Warwickshire Railway after Vic Berry's yard closed down in the early...
Monday at 09:24
sprinterguy
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What's your latest acquisition?
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That's true, I forget sometimes that the surviving K1 has spent some time named while in preservation - though it seems to have also run...
Saturday at 07:51
sprinterguy
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What's your latest acquisition?
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Wonderfully smooth, quiet and capable runners, those Hornby K1s. Mine has been the stalwart performer on the 'Jacobite' equivalent on my...
Friday at 14:43
sprinterguy
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lostwin - BR in the mid 80's
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It's definitely been a great jumping off point for further discussion and reminisces.
Friday at 12:55
sprinterguy
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Early colour photos of Mk2 carriages in maroon livery
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Yeah, it's a pity that one is now rarer than hen's teeth in the second hand market, demanding sky high prices when it does turn up. I...
Friday at 12:50
sprinterguy
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lostwin - BR in the mid 80's
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Yeah that's the one, the 'Calder Valley' units. Rolls Royce engines, and not at all bad as far as 'bog carts' go, with a bit more 'poke'...
Friday at 10:55
sprinterguy
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Could LSL be launching a competitor service to the Jacobite?
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That's certainly fortuitous timing. :)
8 Apr 2024
sprinterguy
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WCRC loses judicial review in High Court
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That must have put four class 37s at Arisaig at noon when the LSL and WCRC workings crossed over, assuming the LSL service is running...
8 Apr 2024
sprinterguy
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Class 221 for Grand Central
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So far as I'm aware (and certainly according to the GC website), they're still operating as 5-car sets: 221142: 60392 60992 60986 60792...
8 Apr 2024
sprinterguy
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Charter trains should run with a backup locomotive on the back
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Indeed, quite a lot of them do already, usually an older class 47 (or comparable class 57) as it can provide train supply to the...
6 Apr 2024
sprinterguy
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Could LSL be launching a competitor service to the Jacobite?
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Gosh, I know a push-pull set made it as far as Oban in '81, but that was before the introduction of the Scotrail livery and I never...
4 Apr 2024
sprinterguy
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5Z37, 06 43 LSL empty stock Crewe HS-Tom na Faire depot today.
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WCRC only offer half a carriage of compartments on the Jacobite, to be fair.
4 Apr 2024
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