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How are we supposed to use it, no wonder there is only a few using the forum now, how do we post messages, photos etc. Everything has been changed, crazy, Bernard Dodd

Lovely photos, please though, what is that locomotive with the 3 wagons in Zimbabwe Sambia?
The non-articulated one.
Thanks for sharing them. Cheers Bernard

The Sandstone list includes 3 Graftons at Nairobi, G630 of 1900 is unlikely to be the one now in existance which leaves G2110 and G2152 both recorded as built in 1923. these numbers corresponding well with the numbers and dates of the many other Grafton cranes still in existance around the world. Al...

Might be worth looking at.
http://www.sandstone-estates.com/index. ... rane-saved
Seems as though it could be of help
Cheers Bernard

Just home from a few days in North Norfolk, to those who do not know of the area it has a number of tourist railways, as well as the standard gauge North Norfolk Railway at Sheringham and the Mid Norfolk Railway at Dereham, there is the excellent 9 mile 15'' gauge Bure Valley Railway at Aylsham, the...

I looked at this photo of Nathan's a couple of times thinking that can't be Innsbruck. Today I got my photos out from around 1983, the platform canopies have changed the building appears to have changed, still I thought it can't be the same station then I realised even on my poorer photos the mounta...

Really great photos from Chris here. We stayed near there last year, glorious place, lots of large engines in the depot, in steam was the same Bulleid Pacific 'Wadebridge' and A4 Pacific 'Bittern. The Class 9F 92212 had just been repainted and looked very good. I've added a photo I took in Alton Sta...

Kevin, I took them a couple of weeks ago. If you get chance the island is well worth a visit. The little Bagnall engine, Sea Lion, on the Groudle Glen Railway is the original engine built for the line in 1896. A second one, Polar Bear, was built in 1905 for the railway and is now still in operation ...

Can't find anything about the Isle of Man in this forum. The island has at least 7 railways, here are photos of the IoM Steam Railway which runs over 15 miles across the island from Douglas to Port Erin, the Electric Railway which is glorious 17 mile ride on double track from Douglas to Ramsey and h...

Surely the poor fellow was only being prepared for the price of railway tickets in the UK
Cheers Bernard.

This delightful little 0-4-0 now named Mountaineer, originally Sarah Louis, was built in Germany in 1970 by Wiilheim Van Den Heiden for a light railway in a park in Beekbergan in the Netherlands, in 1985 it was sold to the Bush Mills Railway in Tasmania where it was rebuilt in 1993 with a larger boi...

To all on this Forum, I hope I have got this right now and hopefully you will see two photos I took recently in North Wales of NGG16s climbing up the bank out of Caernarvon in not the best of weather,
Cheers Bernard

Some very nice photos by Ian, but it should be noted though that the difference in size between the locomotives and the coaches in two of the photos is because the coaches shown are older FR/WHR ones on loan from the Ffestiniog Railway, compare with the second photo where the coaches are modern comf...

Austerlitz may not be the greatest station in Paris but if your in that city and have the time it really is worth a visit if only to see that wonderful steel and glass work. Not quite a St Pancras but still worth a visit'
Really nice photos.
Cheers Bernard

Kevin, sorry not to reply earlier, been to N Wales to see guess what. I did as you said it simply tells me the picture size is 1.22MB,also the disk size is 1.22MB, no mention of pixels or inches. Don't know if it helps I use a Fuji Finepix A500 camera which has 5.1 mega pixels printed on it. My phot...