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RTARB = ready to add replacement bits
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What is it with manufacturers who are obsessed with liveries and not at all bothered about structural authenticity?
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THE great railway question of the day is undoubtedly that of the Gauges — a question in respect of which there can be no neutrality on the part either of established or of embryo companies; for to all of them the final settlement of the matter at issue is fraught with consequences, prospective as well as present, of no slight importance.
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"I take it for granted," says he, "that in determining the dimensions in each case, due regard has been had to the curves and gradients of the line, which ought to form a most essential, if not the principal, condition."
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The Bristol section of the board, consisting, for the most part, of mercantile men, has, it is notorious, almost ceased to exercise any control over the proceedings of the Company.
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The King to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force: With equal skill to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs admit no force but argument.
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Lowering my water scoop to avoid stopping at minor stations like Swindon
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Is Hornby Magazine the new MRJ?
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Someone who likes their Panniers is someone worth keeping
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Apparently, it's all about the size of one's ejector. But that sounds a bit rude.
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Now utterly confused as to what distinguishes a 'passenger' engine from a 'goods' engine.
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(On 3289 Trefusis taking over at Exeter): "There is a marked air of 'bulldog' determination about this type of locomotive. The idea suggested that whatever may happen, it will pull the train through somehow. And it usually does."
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In discussing matters GWR, one inevitably enters realms of illogicality
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MS Paint reprieved - result!!!!!
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Can this be the station where driver and fireman exchanged piercing whistles as three engines met?
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I can never remember whether an energised ATC ramp rang the bell or didn't ring the bell
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"Brunel was not unknown in Bristol."
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I have never met Napoleon, but I plan to find the time
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There was for many years a deep-rooted idea in Paddington minds that it was utterly impossible for a standard gauge train to run as fast as a broad gauge train, and the authorities could not for a long time be bought to reduce the 95 or 97 minute allowance for the Paddington-Swindon runs.
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The Ahrons' 1916 quote continues:
There may have been another reason lurking in the Paddington mind. All trains except the "Dutchman" and "Zulu" conveyed third class passengers, and this type of being was not persona grata with the Great Western Railway. Consequently to convey him from Swindon to London at first class speed was a thing not to be thought of under any consideration.
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Just to explain - my 1984 submission was put to the planning meeting which gave authority for schemes to go forward for development. I was at that time putting in stuff frequently and knew they never read half the papers until the meeting so the 1 April Agenda included as the final item a very innocent looking single page paper which ended with 'Group is asked to authorise the development of the scheme to convert the gauge of WR principal routes, etc.
The paper was only read b...
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Until the turn of the twentieth century the Great Western looked forward. Thereafter it looked Churchward.
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The Great Western is a very solid line, and makes its progress in a solid style: doing some great things and many small, but all alike with the immovability of love.
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There was for many years a deep-rooted idea in Paddington minds that it was utterly impossible for a standard gauge train to run as fast as a broad gauge train, and the authorities could not for a long time be bought to reduce the 95 or 97 minute allowance for the Paddington-Swindon runs. There may have been another reason lurking in the Paddington mind. All trains except the "Dutchman" and "Zulu" conveyed third class passengers, and this type of being was not persona grata wi...
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The broad gauge is not the only peculiarity of the Great Western Railway Company. The whole of its management is peculiar. In no railway is there so little of the mercantile element, and so much of the political element, as in the Great Western Railway.
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The Great Western is the line. So smooth. So polite. West Country politeness. So fast. (Arnold Bennett, 1924)
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