http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/ Narrow Gauge Railway Society Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:15:00 GMT David Mummery http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/377 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/377 Welcome aboard, David.. Much better late than never! You're quite right about Lawson; I too have good reason to thank him. DM ... From: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:03:16 GMT dwbarnes_bvr http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/376 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/376 Until I joined the NGRS earlier this week, I did not appreciate how good it was and how much useful information the Society had. I would also like to take Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:57:29 GMT Robin Willis http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/375 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/375 Having just had a quick glance through NGN which arried today, I spotted the photograph of Penrhyn locomotive "Eigiau" in the letter (page 8) from Mr Leleux. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:18:52 GMT Ian Jolly http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/374 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/374 I've got a copy of a poor photograph from a newspaper article showing "A miniature underground railway for the General Post Office; testing the system by Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:39:57 GMT marbrae53 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/373 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/373 Hi Robin, Thank you for your kind offer. My main challenge at the moment (which will occupy me for some long time yet) is to correctly organise the data I've Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:25:19 GMT Robin Willis http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/372 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/372 Martin,   Good luck with your Hudwell Clarke research. I assume you have full details of works no. 1643 of 1930, Surrey CC, Penrhyn Railway and then Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:55:56 GMT marbrae53 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/371 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/371 Talking of challenges, as I was in my introduction, I've had a request for photographs / drawings / technical data relating to the following Hudswell Clarke Sat, 02 Jan 2010 15:27:11 GMT marbrae53 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/370 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/370 Hi everyone, My name's Martin Best, and this is a quick introduction to me and my interests. I'm 56 and live near Poole in Dorset with my wife. I've recently Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:13:47 GMT tipong3 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/369 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/369 http://www.heritage.org.ac/Ross6.htm One of several railways on Ascension served the turtle ponds & a train is seen herewith with a turtle en route. Most were Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:04:30 GMT engerth399 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/368 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/368 Hi All Many thanks to all who replied, I shall be trying to follow up those sources. I'll try to chase the French book as well as I'm already doing French Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:07:16 GMT dachur http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/367 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/367 Ray, Many thanks for taking the trouble to list all these published sources. It will keep me busy for a while chasing them up. The article in Railway News by Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:00:06 GMT loco2992000 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/366 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/366 Group, No sooner had I started to put away my file on the below stuff, when I came across this reference on the Clasig Yahoo site from Jeff Lanham: "Has anyone Mon, 14 Dec 2009 06:27:55 GMT loco2992000 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/365 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/365 David, Peter & others, Agree info on light railways in Egypt, and also Sudan, is indeed hard to come by. Curiously the three great "Light Railways" books by Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:17:26 GMT Ian Jolly http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/364 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/364 The Yahoo Groups I look after aren't moderated but are set up such that the 'owner'/moderator has to approve new members. We have no problems like this one Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:11:14 GMT mickdmorgan2001 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/363 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/NGRailwaySociety/message/363 It gets by because in the interests of speeding up messages, and because spam comes once in a blue moon, we are no longer moderated. Needless to say, member