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You will find photos and drawings of the Type 7 in Adrian Vaughan's "Great Western Architecture" pages 334 to 337, and his "Great Western Signalling" page 82. You can also find the real thing well preserved and capable of being inspected at (among other places) Toddington (7b), Winchcombe (7d), Cranmore (7b), Carrog (7a), Llangollen (7a), Kidderminster (7d), Buckfastleigh (7d), Bishops Lydeard (7d), Blue Anchor (7b), and Princes Risborough North (7b).

Henwick level crossing (Worcester), 1979:

Paul Karau and Chris Turner's Country Branch Line, which is the definitive history of the Watlington branch, says (volume 1, page 43) "We have not discovered any evidence that stream railmotors were ever used on the line, which is hardly surprising when an engine would still have been needed to handle the goods, thus obviating any economy. It is also doubtful whether a steam railmotor couuld have handled any worthwhile tail load on Chinnor bank. Nor is there any evidence that auto-working was employed. Auto-trailers were simply provided to serve new rail-level halts..." This passage is referenced in the linked Wikipedia entry (note 6). I don't really understand how WIkipedia works, in that it appears to accept two contradictory statements, but I would believe Karau and Turner every time.

The first Central Hall show I went to was in 1970, but this Daily Telegraph cutting (which I may have posted before) is about the 1973 show. I'm the kid peering in at bottom left:

No small prairies were lined out after WW1 (until BR days, that is)

It is indeed a very pretty model, but the gross distortion of the bodyside windows and panelling is, for me, impossible to ignore.

Everything about that picture- rolling stock liveries, clothes, cars, signage- screams pre-war. I think that's a roundel and a smudge on the loco tank sides.

There were six tracks last time I looked- there could have been fast Met trains as well, making twelve!

The misprint is yours, not the advert's: it's wheel glutting: glutter, wheel glutter ; boxer, centre glutter, veer a smith who fills up small gaps between V-sections of metal wheels, after wheel boss has been cast on in foundry, by hammering red hot steel bar into interstices between sections, whilst wheel is firmly fixed in vice; is assisted by striker q.v. who heats steel bar and does some of the hammering; after glutting, wheel is ready for shrink-in on of tyre. (From A Dictionary of Occupational Terms,1921)

Pendon is a team effort. There is some of my work in that picture.

Here's another Pendon picture, unmodified

Now online from the National Library of Scotland instead https://maps.nls.uk/view/231282237

That is a page from Andrew Dow's book The Railway: British Track since 1804, which was first published in 2014. No idea what it was doing on the internet, but it is a wonderful book.

Believe it or not, Triang used to make them https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/276018202041

I think the points on the Ruislip Lido Railway are weighted rather than sprung, but the effect is much the same.