I'd like to post my thanks.....

alcazar

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Don't get me wrong, I like the thing.......but it would feature as a train in a nightmare....... It just has an evil look to it...it would have you if it could.
 
alcazar

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The bogies are definitely class 31 style, but the wheelbase is different, being 7' 0" = 7' 0" on the class 31 and 7' 2" + 7' 9" for Falcon.

Same basic design, same springing etc.
 
alcazar

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I assume that's a cabbing, rather than the actual driver?

The thing was locked on the one time I saw it at Ebbw Junction.
 
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Steph Dale said:
Steve,

You're welcome! I've actually been spending some time over the last few weeks to work out when I can next get a trip to Didcot with a camera and tape measure...

Steph



Dad,


I've just re-read Kevin Robertson's book and it's certainly true for one of the gas turbines. In fact it seems to have been something of an ongoing problem with people regularly complaining of being covered in soot. Even the GWR's own chiefs were concerned about their effects on infrastructure (smoke deflectors on bridges, signalling equipment, that sort of thing). One detail Steve needs to consider in his operation of Ranelagh Bridge is that 18000 ran to/from Paddington using it's auxiliary diesel engine and was shut down/started in the platforms. That must have been an amazing spectacle.

Mind you I guess the concerns of the management were probably nothing to the permanent way guys if they happened to be working in a tunnel when 18000 went through; apparently the fumes caused a certain 'effect' in less robust individuals...

Steph
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Yes I knew about this if a sound chip is to be considered then the auxiliary Diesel engine would be a must.
I might see if Severn mill could do the raised numerals as a special before he stops taking special orders.
 
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Hut humm cough cough the one on the left!!! One without the other and all that!!
A friend contacted me today and said can't you get any one to do kerosene castle, so I pointed him to this thread. So there's another one sold.
 
alcazar

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That's one scary photo..........they just look like they will move...on their own.....and come after you!

Is it Swindon? Or Old Oak?
 
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