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Oh yes, I know we probably wouldn't use it for passengers, but fitting air
brakes has been discussed in the past and I stumbled upon that loco and
remembered one of the problems when it was previously discussed was if space
could be found to fit it onto No5.
Regards,
Sam K.
(Honestly not trying for 'the longest sentence award', sorry)
>As there are currently no thoughts of using No.5 on passenger trains,
>there would be no great advantage in fitting it with air brakes at
>present.
>
>Richard
--- In corris-discuss@ yahoogroups. co.uk, "samklancs" <samklancs@. ..>
wrote:
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> a nice, neat, subtle, instalation.
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