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In article <v80xH$GR3glIFwVe@nemesis.as15758.net>,
Pyromancer  <pyromancer@inkubus-sukkubus.co.uk> wrote:
>Upon the miasma of midnight, a darkling spirit identified as The Real 
>Doctor <ian.groups@btinternet.com> gently breathed:
>>On 3 Aug, 19:21, "Bevan Price" <meVIAfreeukFULLSTOPcom> wrote:
>
>>> Someone is proposing to build a Clan, one of the less successful BR designs.
>>> Good luck to them, but personally I would like to see something like an LNWR
>>> "Prince Of Wales", or one of the many passenger tank or 0-6-0 freight
>>> classes that disappeared before they could be preserved.
>
>>Something from the G&SWR would be nice.
>
>I'd love to see (and hear!) one of those bizarre steam-electric locos 
>that Andrew Breen posted details of a while back.  French, I think.

The Heilmann, n'cest pas? 

>Much as I wish the new A1 every success on the main line (and it'll be 
>interesting to see how she fares, reliability-wise, compared to 
>preserved "original era" locos) - but bringing back some of the odder 
>experiments and significant members of long-gone types that contributed 
>to the development of the steam locomotive in general would be good. 
>Perhaps a replica of some of the early GWR locos that Swindon scrapped 
>in the 1900s?

Well.. _North Star_ was kind-of replicated as a static item, _Lord of the 
Isles_ visually reproduced from bits of (ISTR) J94 - and _Fire Fly_ has 
been done. That would leave a possibility of a Ffestiniog-style rebuild of 
a B&E bogie tank engine using the wheelset that the NRM has. Trouble is, 
there's not much chance to run 'em (unless you also go with the idea of 
re-gauging the Gwili to create the first of the Great Big Trains of 
Wales..).
'Course, you could go out on a limb and re-create _Victor_, the 
ex-Llanelli Railway Fossick & Hackworth engine which was scrapped in
the same round of Swindon purges. That'd be interesting :)

>On the other 
hand, a Class 123 or 124 Swindon DMU would make a very nice 
>railtour unit...  :-)

As would a Blue Pullman, provided the ride could be sorted...

-- 
Andy Breen ~ 	Not speaking on behalf of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth
		Feng Shui: an ancient oriental art for extracting
		 money from the gullible (Martin Sinclair)