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I would be interested to hear people's views on the options for another steam locomotive for the Corris Railway. The options that have been suggested so far...
Personally, I would like to see a new Hughes / Falcon loco. This is mainly due to the historic arguments, but also I have always liked the look of them much...
There is one small part of me that says I would like to see the re- creation of a lost class of loco - the KS "Skylark" that ran on the Snailbeach comes to...
I would suggest another Tattoo.....obviously the experience gained on our present loco would be useful and spares should be interchangeable, especially with...
Hi All, a few questions - can some knowledgeable soul enlighten me please? Was the brake van used on passenger trains originally? (If not were there ever any...
Hi Paul my head says another Tattoo but my heart says a Falcon. One of the arguments against the Falcon is that it has inside cylinders which would make...
Hi Paul/Steve I would like to see either another Tattoo or a Thames variant, reason cost! The Thames would make for more interesting variation and I personally...
Harris, Steve
steve.harris@...
Oct 19, 2006 10:51 am
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No.3 does not have inside cylinders - that would imply that they were between the frames, whereas the Falcon design - as with the Tattoo - are outside the...
Correct up to a point - although the corrugated iron carriage shed at Machynlleth was a fair size. The new shed at Maespoeth has been designed so that its...
I suspect that Steve meant inside motion. Particularly combined with the Falcon's low-slung boiler, this must make access to the motion difficult unless the...
Hi Steve, I'm not sure what you mean by 'hung up' on making a replica Corris. I agree with your points about nos 5 & 6 and the carriage shed (how big was the...
Thanks Richard, sorry about "al" - I had it in my head that you were not the only moderator. Thanks for setting up this group. Best Steve ... were ... Tattoo -...
Yes, the Thames was a related Kerr Stuart model: think of a Tattoo with a saddle tank in a square profile (if I'm remembering the right one). I'm a fairly...
As far as can be worked out from the photographic evidence - In the early days of the steam-hauled passenger service, it seems that all passenger trains had...
Thank you, Richard. A very full and satisfying answer! ... and ... passenger ... the ... and ... at ... known ... sense, ... they ... please? ... loco...
Comments from Lawson Little (posted at his request) : I was interested to see this matter raised in the latest Corris- Pondent and thought I would offer my...
Lawson - I am afraid that I do not agree with you when you say that you do not accept the argument that a second loco should need to be connected with the old...
Lawson's reply - Many thanks for your detailed response. I must confess that I hadn't thought about the relative power outputs of a Hunslet and a 'real' Corris...
Not sure where the idea of a "very short run" comes from - any loco constructed for the Corris needs to be able to tackle the two-and-a- half mile run from...
... I can't help feeling that until the railway actually runs that far the extra locomotive is something that should not go beyond planning stages. Alan...
I take your point, Alan, but if we build a second loco over the same ten-year period that we built No.7, then it could be quite difficult to ensure that it was...
I just have to congratulate the team responsible for the lining of Carriage 21. I haven't seen it in person (yet) but from the photos on the website I have to...
I see from the website that " Track panels have been moved ready to collect stock from Aberllefenni." Which stock is this coming from Aberllefenni? Is this...
It is a Corris traditional use that we are continuing - if you look at the photo in "Great Western Corris" the mail waggon clearly uses the double-g in the...
We are collecting a couple of heritage waggons (and the battery loco, although possibly not at the same time) from the quarry, which no longer has a use for...
... Waggon was the traditional northern English spelling (were it Welsh the spelling would, I suspect, be 'wagen'). In other areas words like "wain" were used...
Thank you Richard and Alan for your responses to my query about waggons. It seems to me that the double-"gee" spelling is the more- consistent of the two i.e....
As far as I know, the terms are interchangeable. Strictly speaking you would refer to a "set of points" rather than just "points". I suppose there is room for...
I have read somewhere that the original Corris station buildings suvived for a considerable period of time after the closure of the railway. Were any of these...
