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    Archivist to Stanier Mogul Fund and Stanier 8F Locomotive Society.
    Was a guard with BR and a fireman on the SVR, both in the 1970s. Currently, and once again, a volunteer at Bridgnorth MPD, another follow on from the 1970s!

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  1. Not an answer to the question but thought this looked interesting.
  2. When working opens, there was a difference between loaded and empty. The empties were obviously lighter so acceleration and braking were more rapid. But once you got them moving the empties were slower. As another guard put, 'The wind gets into the wagons and slows them down.' In practice, empties have two front faces moving through the air while loaded have only one. And yes, you could feel the difference.
  3. You certainly wouldn't want to be doing 107 mph on a Standard Five anywhere. They were hardly the best riding of engines, even when compared with the Stanier version, which could be lively, to say the least.
  4. Are you suggesting they sell figures with a scale 80 feet arm?
  5. They were not unknown but unusual and far from ideal.
  6. You also need to be aware that the there will be parts of the arc of the wheel, including the flanges, outside the wheelbase itself and these must also clear the rails leading up to the table.
  7. So unless I'm missing something, the only direction available is back the way the train came?
  8. No, they drove from the right. Many pre-grouping companies drove from the right but the LMS, LNER and SR standardised on the left. The GWR, as ever, went its own way.
  9. That by definition would have to be a distant signal, otherwise it's a stop block, and the tern is Fixed Distant. There are some in preservation; there are or possibly were one or two on the Severn Valley Railway
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