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80097 is a BR 4MT in its final stages of restoration and the Bury Standard 4 Group has launched it's Kickstarter project to raise £16k for the super-heater elements. Its anticipated that it'll steam this year on the East Lancs Railway, so support the project and donate - there are footplate...

Wouldn't there be quite a lot of variables with this, apart from frequency of arriving trains? You'd need to know average unload / load time, length of train (longer trains take longer to load), averages passengers per carriage (or assume 1 type of train always), peak volumes (ie, rush hour...

Must have been a gremlin - seems ok now unless you can link me to the page?

Hi All Just finished an upgrade to the Bury Standard 4 Group site - let me know what you think and sign up if you aren't a member yet so it can be finished and be running again soon www.burystandard4group.org.uk Jason

Hi All, If any of you collect some of the old railway mags - get yourself down to the East Lancs Railway, and find the Bury Standard 4 Group's shop (its at the end of platform 2 in an old goods coach) as the shop is packed with them - I picked up some Railway World's from 50s for a few quid -...

Try this...

According to Hattons - a couple of weeks... http://www.ehattons.com/60224/Hornby_R3207_Class_P2_2_8_2_2001_Cock_O_The_North_in_LNER_livery_Main_range_version_Etched_n/StockDetail.aspx

In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, announced on their website here http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/news/?item=100 Jason

ELR post their types and dates here http://www.eastlancsrailway.org.uk/things-to-see-do/footplate-experience/course-dates/ I did a steam engine FXP last September on 80080 and it's brilliant. Shovelling coal is harder than you think - practice chucking mud round your garden first...

All over the UK, you often see old rails, either placed on the lineside, or between the rails of the current tracks - is there any value in these for scrap or melting down and being re-used for something else? Theres so many dumped all over the network, surely these something they can do with...

Thats great, exactly what it was - thanks to all that answered

Hi I've always been meaning to find out what a piece of particular line side equipment is, and I can't seem to find out by Googling, so here goes. Forgive the description, but hopefully someone will know what I mean... They aren't all over the network, usually around junctions or sidings...

I was on it, overheard on the crew radio that it may have been the injectors on the B1 stopped working. Few minutes fix and we were off again

Hi All Been trying to figure something out, if anyone has their thoughts or answers, that'd be great.... Hornby last year announced Duke of Gloucester, in 3 variants... Railroad Standard In a pack with 3 Mk1 coaches (new tooling on the coaches) ...and then on the 2014 announcement...

Went passed yesterday at about 4 and it was still on the MOSI siding with two people in high vis checking out the opposite side Jason