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Just bringing the thread back to aviation, the MOD operated a fleet of a dozen 2 foot gauge Motor Rail locos at the BAOR Wegberg depot (which for some reason the Germans always referred to it as Arsbeck). It was halfway between RAF Bruggen and RAF Wildenwrath and handled munitions and fuel for the two airfields.

The depot shut in 1979 and the locos were put for sale by the MOD and most (if not all) returned to the UK some years later.

Aha – it looks as if we are now drawing out the NGRSies!

Erm, not me! but my house does back on to a narrow gauge line, so I suppose I am an honourary member! 😀

Aha – it looks as if we are now drawing out the NGRSies!

Simplexes… (looks for the drool smilie but can’t find one evocative enough )

OK, so if you want a Motor Rail ‘Protected’ loco, look here:-

http://www.btinternet.com/~buzzrail/page10.html

Leighton Buzzard Railway is also the home of Baldwin 4-6-0T ‘778’, which served on the Front.

(Checks cupboard for Anorak!)

Simplexes… (looks for the drool smilie but can’t find one evocative enough )

My other anorak being narrow gauge railways I can shed a little bit of light on the Baldwin 4-6-0 loco.
There were two of these rescued from an Indian sugar mill named Lion and Tiger.Lion went to Amberely chalk pits museum and Tiger was at Duxford for a period.
I am not sure why the idea of a railway at Duxford was abandoned.
It was very much a case of thinking that out of the 495 locos built in [six months!] non survived until these turned up, which are a well known type as they operated on some of the famous narrow gauge lines in the UK and in that respect are quite Iconic.
They had a reputation for rough riding but since the restoration and operation of the ‘Duxford’ Baldwin that has finally been repudiated and was no doubt the result of rough track on the western front.

Graham

A whole hall full of tanks and they’re talking about trains…..they better have three anoraks, that’s all I’ve got to say! :rolleyes:

It looks as if some of us here possess two anoraks!

Possibly three or four.:D:D
Colin

It looks as if some of us here possess two anoraks!

Builder Wks No/ Year Wheels/Type Gauge Number Name Location, County
MRail 3849 /1927 4wPM 600mm 2 Imperial War Mus, Cambs
MRail 1364 /1918 4wPM 2ft Imperial War Mus, Cambs

The very wonderful UK Locos database still shows two Simplex locos at Duxford. The 1918 loco is the armoured version whilst the other is ex ROF Bishopton and both were lasat reported in the Land Warfare Hall in 2008.

*waves at the various National Preservation rail heads on here*

They were both still there earlier this year.
Colin. *wave back*:D:D

Builder Wks No/ Year Wheels/Type Gauge Number Name Location, County
MRail 3849 /1927 4wPM 600mm 2 Imperial War Mus, Cambs
MRail 1364 /1918 4wPM 2ft Imperial War Mus, Cambs

The very wonderful UK Locos database still shows two Simplex locos at Duxford. The 1918 loco is the armoured version whilst the other is ex ROF Bishopton and both were lasat reported in the Land Warfare Hall in 2008.

*waves at the various National Preservation rail heads on here*

I can certainly remember nearly falling over some track during flying legends 2005 and im pretty sure ive seen some bits and gravel along by the tank bank. From memory i vaugely remember it being just airside of the fence.

That’s nothing compared to what I saw at the Air Force Museum in Palam, India. Just as I arrived in the parking lot a dump truck pulled up… the sort you’d see on a major construction site. It was filled to the brim with children on a school trip with their teachers no less!!!

Cheers,
Richard

They do the same thing in the US:

Or maybe the children had come straight from the construction site? 😉

Elfin safety would go abso-bleedin-lutely ballistic :D:D. Tipping kiddies out of railway wagons, whatever next :eek::eek:

That’s nothing compared to what I saw at the Air Force Museum in Palam, India. Just as I arrived in the parking lot a dump truck pulled up… the sort you’d see on a major construction site. It was filled to the brim with children on a school trip with their teachers no less!!!

Cheers,
Richard

If you go to Google Earth and press the clock in the upper menu bar – you can go back to 2004 and see the train on the track with the carts.

It is also on the 2010 image as they seem to have bug@$!£ed up the image and reused the 2005 one with the new image of the adjacent fields. Either that or they have taken down the new airspace extension and put the train back in since last month.

Going back in time you can see Sally B jumping around several standings and the aircraft being slowly cleared from behind the sheds next to M11.

Fortunately there are ca. 7 images from different times to play with.

Maybe safer than dodging the site transport minibus………

Still looking over my shoulder when I walk around there.

You want to see the bruises I have bumping into things 😀

Brian

Maybe safer than dodging the site transport minibus………

Shame it couldn’t have been incorporated into the site transport system. Kids (and dads) would have loved going back and forth sat in the tipper trucks, being ‘deposited’ at the requested stop!!!

Elfin safety would go abso-bleedin-lutely ballistic :D:D. Tipping kiddies out of railway wagons, whatever next :eek::eek:

Interesting thread. Wasn’t the ‘crowd-side’ bit removed after someone tripped and broke a leg in June 2004, or am I confusing that with another incident? I was there and remember the ambulance and rumblings of “Oh, they’re bound to remove the track now” at the time…

I remember taking a ride on the LWH railway at Classic Flight ’92 (I think) and being buzzed by ‘Happy Jack’s Go Buggy’ and the Buchon. I was only 4, but by God, I remember the train shaking as they went overhead like it happened yesterday!