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GoldWithFalmer
Seaweed! Seaweed!
Feel free-i am no train spotter,or anorak but this little
,well not so little beauty is the first brand new, built from scratch steam engine in this country for years-cost over £3m i think and took about 20 years to build-not your cup of tea maybe,but you i am sure can appreciate it's creation.
The Peanut Roaster
Banned
You're young, but you'll learn.
BHAFC_Pandapops
Citation Needed
- Feb 16, 2011
- 2,844
Feel free-i am no train spotter,or anorak but this little
,well not so little beauty is the first brand new, built from scratch steam engine in this country for years-cost over £3m i think and took about 20 years to build-not your cup of tea maybe,but you i am sure can appreciate it's creation.
beautiful
GoldWithFalmer
Seaweed! Seaweed!
Quite an achievement by all who built it and shows that when we try,we can create.
BHAFC_Pandapops
Citation Needed
- Feb 16, 2011
- 2,844
it's great isn't it? to think some people use their time for dedicated craft, and some sit here there whole life eyeing posts.
Hove Lagoonery
Well-known member
- Dec 16, 2008
- 1,039
So we've managed to recreate something we used to lead the world in.
Wow.
What an achievement.
GoldWithFalmer
Seaweed! Seaweed!
Good job we did it now,for the way certain elements of this once great country are going,we could no even boil an Egg a few years from now.
essexeagle
Active member
- Jul 22, 2004
- 475
And you call us Nigels. 
GoldWithFalmer
Seaweed! Seaweed!
And you call us Nigels.
I am surprised you even know what we are discussing here,amazing stuff Nige!
skipper734
Registered ruffian
Unfortunately the boiler was made in Germany. Just another of the lost skills. 
33057 Seagull
New member
Well at least, Tangmere as were all the West Country/Battle of Britains were built here, in Brighton in fact.Unfortunately the boiler was made in Germany. Just another of the lost skills.
