Author Archives: Chris Newman

ASTT’s 2024 AGM

‘ ASTT held its 2024 on Sunday 2nd March.  The meeting was led by Chairman John Hind and followed the agenda distributed to members in advance of the meeting. The meeting was attended by 20 members (illustrated above at the Zoom  meeting), including two stalwarts from the USA – Wolf Fengler and Austin Unruh – […]

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Newsletter No 23 Released

In case any members have not received email notification of its release, our Newsletter No 23 was released to the membership on 7th December 2023.  It may be downloaded from the link on our Newsletter page. Filling 25 pages, it contains our usual updates on ASTT’s membership and activities, plus three articles of interest: Derivation […]

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Help Ukraine (and save a diesel!)

Dāvis Bušs, our member from Latvia, is seeking donations to save a diesel-electric locomotive fitted with a 50kW diesel generator that is big enough to power really large consumers such as a hospital, etc.  After the war, it would become a museum exhibit. A summary of the project can be found at http://kudrasbanitis.lv/index.php/en/projects/187-locomotive-esu2a-for-ukraine including a […]

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March 2023 Newsletter released

In case any members are not receiving our emails, our Newsletter editor, Iain McCall, has today (21/11/23) circulated the March 2023 edition of our Newsletter.  Filling 57 pages, it contains our usual updates on ASTT’s membership and activities, plus three articles of great interest: Derivation of the Locomotive Energy Balance by Martin Johnson, Cylindrical Fireboxes—Sorting […]

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November 2022 Newsletter released

In case any members are not receiving our emails, our Newsletter editor, Iain McCall, circulated the November 2022 edition of our Newsletter this afternoon (20th November 2022).  Filling 42 pages, it contains several interesting articles in addition to our usual reports on ASTT’s membership and activities. If any member has not received a copy of […]

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