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  1. mclong
    If PLA records show A64 as ex LSWR then the record is wrong, it is definetly ex Caledonian. The axleboxes and brake gear are Caledonian, every bit of iron work is different to LSWR vans. The door is the main difference, narrower on Caley vans the door catch and handle are very distinctive. The tall LSWR vans all had vents on the ends. The EFE vans have steel underframes, A64 has a wooden underframe. Here is a tall LSWR van in BR days
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    PLA A64 is an ex Caledonian van, but very similar to LSWR vans. The sliding door is narrower and door fittings are different.
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    I signed and paid the other day, for RMWeb Premium, still cant get past step 2. It shows 'You do not have a live World of Railways Plus or RMweb premium membership'.
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    Sufficient Power Magazine cover mentions Lodekka's and Sentinel six legger, does this mean Rapido's next bus will be a Bristol Lodekka, and Sentinel steam lorries are coming too.
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    The brake van in the article is a ballast brake van which would be painted red oxide with vermilion ends. The Hornby LSWR ballast wagon announced recently is shown painted dark brown which should be red oxide !
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    L Class were not rebuilt in the 1920s or at any other time, they remained essentially the same other than small details until withdrawal.
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    That is vacuum ejector pipe, fitted in SR days when vacuum train braking was required. Connect to vacuum brake valve in cab.
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    The Brighton H1 atlantic is closer to the GNR version. The footplate is nearly identical, the H2 is very different, but neater. Top H1 bottom H2.
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    At least one D Class made in onto the GER , here's 740 at Liverpool Street on a royal special.
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    GNR Six-wheel 4 Compartment Brake Third built 1895. From Railway Heritage Register On-Line.
  11. mclong
    Here's a Mersey Railway ex METROPOLITAN No 61. B.CLASS. BP2580-1884. Another variation was the LSWR MET tank which Adams fitted a longer wheelbase bogie.
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    751 in 1920 with Westinghouse pump.
  13. mclong
    Also on Freeview 81.
  14. mclong
    Talyllyn Railway already done by Bachmann, in Thomas the tank engine guise.
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    North British Railway brakevan. There should a handrail on top of the balcony uprights.
  16. mclong
    Definitely a building as shown on 1906 25in Ordnance Survey map https://maps.nls.uk/view/105992296 Enlargement of black and white version.
  17. mclong
    The photo of Launceston is of the LSWR station , virtually every wagon and coach belongs to that company. The peaked roof next to the cattle wagons is a hut built over the buffer stops.
  18. mclong
    This all sounds fairly feasible , but the numbers you have chosen were allocated to T9 and C8 4-4-0s. The LSWR class designations follow lot numbers starting with A1 then B1 C1 etc for locos built at Nine Elms or Eastleigh. Which makes X1 an Adams loco built in 1889. However classes where the first member was built by an outside contractor such as Dubs, would take the the number of the first built, hence 700 class. Yours would be the 300 class, but 300 was a T9.
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    The longest serving B4 at Dover was 30084 from 1951 to 1959. 30083 and 30086 also made appearances.
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    B4 tank was was used on the Dover seafront line in the 1950s. Cant get much further east.
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    I don't know if this has been mentioned before,but there is a short film on the BFI website called 'Rover Makes Good'. Which is set near Callington. The opening has an O2 with gate stock arriving at a station ,and close up of the gated vestibule. Also a brief shot of a gate stock train with an Ivatt 2-6-2T at the end of the film.
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    The cabs were most definitely were extended at the rear . Look at any pre WW1 photo with original cab it finishes in front of the bunker,after modification the cab has been extended to the rear of the now unused bunker exactly as in post #229. Also post #219 has photos of large and small cabs and if you look at lower picture.you can just see the join where extended
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    According to SEMG No 10 did not ever receive a Drummond boiler , only Nos 11 , 15 , 63 and 361. Muz,s model would need an Adams firebox grafted on a Drummond boiler it did not ever happen.
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    I don't think a T1 ever looked quite like that , with a Drummond dome and safety valves and Adams ramsbottom safety valve on the firebox . One or the other but not both.
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    The artwork shows 488 as preserved with Adams livery and later modifications to cab roof ,coal rails and tank filler.
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