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Picture of the Month – December 2023
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Picture of the Month – February 2017
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Southern Big Tanks, new books from The Irwell Press
Hot of the press from my friends at the Irwell Press are four new excellent paperback books all about the Southern Big Tanks. The four books cover the London Southern Western Railway Urie G16 class 4-8-0Ts and H16 4-6-2Ts Z class and the later Maunsell Z class 0-8-0Ts and W class 2-6-4Ts. These follow in … Continue reading Southern Big Tanks, new books from The Irwell Press
Picture of the Month – May 2016
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Talking Stock #33 The five Urie H16 large 4-6-2 tanks
As I mentioned in my Talking Stock #26 post here about the four Urie G16 class 4-8-0T locomotives, I do indeed have a soft spot for large tanks and therefore this post is about Urie's other large tanks the five H16 4-6-2Ts. The later Maunsell Z class 0-8-0T locomotives were the subject of Talking Stock … Continue reading Talking Stock #33 The five Urie H16 large 4-6-2 tanks
Talking Stock #26 The four Urie G16 large tanks
I have a bit of a soft spot for all large tank locomotives and a number of classes of large tanks existed on the Southern Railway such as the H16 4-6-2T, W 2-6-4T, the Z class 0-8-0T that I featured in my Talking Stock# 19 post here and the topic of this post the G16 … Continue reading Talking Stock #26 The four Urie G16 large tanks
Talking Stock #19 The quiet but powerful Maunsell Z class tanks.
Firstly a quick Happy New Year to all the readers of this blog as this is the first post of 2013, I wish you all a peaceful and prosperous year ahead with hopefully plenty of time of modelling all things Southern! One of the regular sights on Fisherton Sarum is my Z class pushing loaded … Continue reading Talking Stock #19 The quiet but powerful Maunsell Z class tanks.