Yes please,I was at Duxford yesterday and she is still tucked away in the corner of the hangar.I’m guessing there is no progress finding a pair of suitable Hercules engines.Could she be completed as a Mk II with Merlins.
Colin.

Back in my CCF days I went gliding from Halton and can remember that aircraft built into a shed and wondered what its purpose was although I can’t remember whether it had 3 or 4 bladed props.
Colin.
I can now remember thinking it might have been a Buckmaster so it must have had the 4 bladed props.Unless of course a Buckmaster was given similar treatment.I would have been about 14 at the time and had never seen either aircraft.

From another site ILS and Glidepath unservicable and undercarriage hit the sea wall at the end of the runway.Wx at the time very good.
Colin.

Air Commodore Roger Topp was interviewed on BBC Look East last night after being reunited with the Hunter he flew while C.O. of 111 squadron and the Black Arrows.Looked very fit for a 90 year old.
Colin

Thanks crispy, is this a regular run? Or just a one off? I’d have loved to have got to see it… Do they publish the runs anywhere?

Richard

*edit. Just found steam dreams website with the details on… I think we’ll go to old Leigh and watch the return tonight…

You could also try uksteam.info which covers most of the mainline steam activity.
Colin.
There are actually 5 steam excursions on the mainline network today.

Big Ugly M.Frs. and everything seemed more difficult to work on, eg, changing a dome joint, studs, with about 1″, nuts (Cant remember the exact size, too long ago) and having to Snap Chisel, the nuts off with a 14 pound hammer, sitting atop of a warm boiler, out in the open in the Winter, Changing axle boxes were also hard to remove.Worst Diesel to work on? the Deltic. an absolute nightmare.

Most awkward, changing the piston gland asbestos packing, on the middle cylinder, lying on the con rod, on a plank of wood, at Peterborough North Stn, with a full head of steam, and only a few inches to work in, between the con rod and bottom of the boiler.
Just a quicky, every tender water tank, when needing repairs, most of the water had to be drained out, funny thing is, there were always very small fish in there,
Jim.
Lincoln .7

David Shepherds 9F, Black Prince, is working this weekend at the West Somerset Railway’s Autumn Gala.It had to be transported by road from the North Norfolk Railway,apparantly the flangeless middle driving wheel fouls the check rails on the modern railway.You should try working on GWR Kings and Castles with 2 inside cylinders,the LMS also had 4 cylinder locos.Surely the 9Fs have only outside cylinders.

Colin

…not to mention Coningsby and Cottesmore.

And the rest of East Anglia !!