GE 150 Years Steam Special - Traction-Talk

jamespeterbrett · #1 Post / In Thread 10th October 2012, 05:17 PM

The Great Eastern Railway....... One of only two real "Great" Railway's in my book (sorry all you western and central fans but the GW and GC isnt the other one, ill let the GN fans work out which one i mean

). I was busy so missed it. I think it would be lovely to get B12/3 8572 on the mainline, or even better, get the E4 up from Bressingham and the J69 and J17 out of the NRM to join up with the NNR B12/3 and J15 and the EARM N7. we can but dream

Just a shame a Cluid didnt make it into preservation. being cut up (was it at Stratford) cos it only had saved markings on one side (or so the story goes)

the highwayman · #2 Post / In Thread 10th October 2012, 07:32 PM

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Originally Posted by jamespeterbrett

Just a shame a Cluid didnt make it into preservation. being cut up (was it at Stratford) cos it only had saved markings on one side (or so the story goes)

I think that you'll find that the last 'Claud' was scrapped by Kings of Norwich, having been hidden away by Bill Harvey, a local model engineering society were interested in purchasing, but could not raise the money, so they aproached Alan Bloom, to see if he could help, but Alan did not like inside cylinder locomotives..................