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  1. 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:
  2. No small prairies were lined out after WW1 (until BR days, that is)
  3. It is indeed a very pretty model, but the gross distortion of the bodyside windows and panelling is, for me, impossible to ignore.
  4. 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.
  5. There were six tracks last time I looked- there could have been fast Met trains as well, making twelve!
  6. 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)
  7. Pendon is a team effort. There is some of my work in that picture.
  8. Now online from the National Library of Scotland instead https://maps.nls.uk/view/231282237
  9. 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.
  10. I think the points on the Ruislip Lido Railway are weighted rather than sprung, but the effect is much the same.
  11. Are you sure? There is a BR early crest visible on the tank side
  12. Grendon Underwood in 1977- ground frame hut (containing 2-lever frame and token machine) on left. The Fisons sidings were at Akeman Street, a couple of miles up the line to the right.
  13. There's nothing wrong with what the GWSR have done at Cheltenham Racecourse. My point was about the claim for the picture, not the scene itself.
  14. I see an anonymous-design modern signal box, CCTV camera and picnic bench which are rather jarring.
  15. Possibly something to do with the painting being credited to Marcello Corti
  16. She must have been winding you up- the Railway Department of the Board of Trade ceased to exist in 1919, when the Ministry of Transport was created.
  17. ...by somebody who had no idea about GWR livery, and was happy to use loco and wagon transfers on carriages 😮
  18. Pendon provides portable steps for children to use under parental supervision. These are issued at the museum entrance. This has been happening for about 20 years and no problems have arisen.
  19. As RAIB only came into existence five years after Ladbroke Grove it couldn't have been them, and in any case they do not have any Health & Safety enforcement role. I know which HMRI inspector it was, I think, and he did have a thankless task in the circumstances.
  20. The list of corrections has since been published separately as Pannier Supplement No. 1 and is (was?) available from the GWSG.
  21. A semaphore distant at caution simply means "be prepared to stop at the next stop signal, or other specified place to which the distant signal applies", to quote the current Rule Book (Handbook RS521 section 3.1). A UK driver would not recognise the expression "block signal".
  22. For Pendon's poles I used Express Models insulators (three thousand of them) on arms made from 1 mm square plastic strip, and poles made from brass rod. The crucial aspect is to cut the slots in the poles at precisely regular intervals so that the arms are evenly spaced- get that wrong and they look a mess. Results are in the eye of the beholder. Step irons and arm braces have not been modelled as (along with the wires themselves) if they were visible they would be overscale. It's possible that guy wires may be added some day, if I live long enough.
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