The Combe Down Tunnel was on the route out of Bath. In 1929 the crew of one of the 7F engines was overcome by fumes in the tunnel, the engine ran downhill out of control and crashed near the goods ya… (View Post)

East Lancs Railway had 5 Deltics in Oct 2011. Mid Hants Line has a S&DJR 7F. Will be interesting to see and hear it deal with those hills. (View Post)

https://twitter.com/ZacGoldsmith/status/1340346440422440960 Neville Chamberlain, David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher all raise eyebrows. (View Post)

I have been reading Callum Douglas's The Secret Horsepower War, which covers aircraft engine development in Britain, Germany and The USA. It is an exceptional book, though the technical side can be h… (View Post)

You got the title right. Sometimes I have had to look again at photographs & diagrams as they were from German technical reports on The Merlin engine or The Mosquito. But his Twitter feed is a go… (View Post)