This is a cross-posting from "UK Minautuire Railways" Yahoo group just in case someone on here can add to this discussion. Hi All, Mark Smithers in "Sir Arthur...
Rob Dickinson is planning a `final' tour of Java narrow gauge lines in July-August to include sugar mills, the Ambarawa Rack Railway, the diesel branch from...
Hello all, apologies if you have already received this message on the IRS group. I'm looking to trace the owner of 2ft 0in gauge Ruston & Hornsby 203031 of...
The July-August tour of Java Sugar Mills to see real, working steam in Indonesia during the 2008 sugar season and to visit other local sites of railway...
I am sorry that my first post to this group is sad news. For those of you who knew Phil Guest, locomotive inspector of the Talyllyn Railway, sadly Phil passed...
Phil was a real gentleman and a good friend, and as Don says, he will be greatly missed. Rest in Peace, Mate ... Tim Hudson ... diagnosed ... friends...
Dear All, Several years ago the Moseley Railway Trust acquired several 2' gauge wagons from the former British Rail nursery railway at Poppleton, Yorkshire. ...
I believe the wagons came from the S&T department workshops at York. I will try and get hold of an old friend who worked at Poppleton and confirm this. Dave...
Thanks for that Dave. Any extra info would help! The wagons definitely started left a 4wheel vehicles & then appear to have been converted to be bogies under...
On checking the link - it does'nt seem to work properly & takes me to somewhere else on their website. If you have similar problems go - Imaging Centre -...
Hi All, I am currently pruning my quite extensive library prior to moving house and have produced a first list of disposals covering the ... many rare...
We now have 15 confirmed bookings for this Java sugar mill steam loco and stationary steam engine tour which departs Jakarta 17 July and finishes in Surabaya 2...
For those who may be unaware of the site, may I recommend 'Geoff's Trains' http://www.geoffs-trains.com/ Geoff Cooke is well-known trip organiser & the...
Hi Folks - Just a note to remind anyone who doesn't know that there is an active NGRS Group based on Lincoln, but covering the whole E Midlands. We have six...
Following items on eBay (www.ebay.co.uk <http://www.ebay.co.uk/> ) - due to close this weekened or early next week - may be of interest: Schwartzkopff...
Realising that the 1st of April will soon be upon us and I had not as yet received my NGRS subscription renewal form, I raised the matter with Lawson Little. ...
The Moseley Railway Trust has recently suffered the loss of a members' project – direct from the Dove Holes (High Peak) storage site. This is assumed to have...
Krosniewice Railway in Poland was closed on 31 March and a campaign is being started to restore the service. See the details on the webiste "Behind the Water...
When I visited the JHMD in Czech Republic with its lines from Jindrichuv Hradec to Nova Bystrice and to Obratan in 2004 one of the things the Works Manager Jan...
_,_._,__ Hi all, Graham Lelliott has asked me to let you know about his new book "The Brooklands Miniature Railway". Graham has spent many hours researching...
Under the southern approach road is a museum featuring the old steam driven mechanism for raising and lowering the bridge. Coal was delivered to the hoppers by...
A freind has drawn my attention to this press release which my schoolboy French translsates as a crisis of some sort on the Vivarais. Anyone got any more...
... What it basically says is that the local authority partners/investors are proposing - strongly - temporary closure of the Vivarais in 2008 because of (a)...
See below ... Vivarais. ... 2008.html ... partners/investors are ... because ... working ... does ... the ... near ... ongoing ... everybody! welcome! ...
Ben Fisher wrote (in respect of the Press Release about the Vivarais): "What it basically says is that the local authority partners/ investors are proposing -...
... Please... anyone *but* the Sarkozys... I hadn't seen the heading (which is on the Vivarais commercial site) when I wrote the above summary, so yes, it is...
Does anyone know of a diesel locomotive that will re-gauge to 20" for the North Bay Railway to use as shunter. Main criteria is that it cannot be more than...
