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Henwick level crossing (Worcester), 1979:
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7 hours ago, Steamport Southport said:
Yes. In the link I posted earlier from 1906.
It doesn't give a date of when they stopped using them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watlington_and_Princes_Risborough_Railway
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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.
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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:
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No small prairies were lined out after WW1 (until BR days, that is)
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It is indeed a very pretty model, but the gross distortion of the bodyside windows and panelling is, for me, impossible to ignore.
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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.
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1 hour ago, Wickham Green too said:
though there are actually FOUR tracks on the overbridge - Chiltern were missing out on the party and could have made it TEN trains !!
There were six tracks last time I looked- there could have been fast Met trains as well, making twelve!
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3 hours ago, MartinRS said:
Here are another two from Bradshaw's railway manual, shareholders' guide and official directory of 1915. The dimensions have been reduced by 50% to reduce file size. I'm not sure what the Henry Berry wheel clutting machine does or is it a misprint?
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)
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22 minutes ago, westerner said:
How realistic are YOUR models????????
Pendon is a team effort. There is some of my work in that picture.
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Here's another Pendon picture, unmodified
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23 hours ago, MartinRS said:
Before the OS 'Old Maps' site went off-line there was a map showing a locomotive turntable at the end of the Sheffield Wicker platforms where you would expect to see the buffers.
Now online from the National Library of Scotland instead
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On 02/12/2023 at 16:53, Curlew said:
Found this on the Internet man moons ago. May be useful. There appears to be a whole publication on the subject mentioned in the notes at the bottom.
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.
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1 hour ago, OnTheBranchline said:
Water troughs are something you don’t see every day - even just static ones.
Believe it or not, Triang used to make them
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I think the points on the Ruislip Lido Railway are weighted rather than sprung, but the effect is much the same.
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21 hours ago, Miss Prism said:
That is 5764 in green.
Are you sure? There is a BR early crest visible on the tank side
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On 17/09/2023 at 15:05, The Stationmaster said:
I think Grendon Underrwood was all hand points and no ground frame but I only went down there once (on an Inspection Special 30 years ago and we didn't do much 'inspecting there but simply reversed and headed back to the former GC main line). Probably one of the more interesting Inspection Specials as the route was specified by someone who used to plan rail tour itineraries for the Monmouthshore Railway Society so it started off with a more or less non-stop run (signalling requirements, and a passenger stop at Oxford aside) from Swindon to the first crossover past the east end of Bletchley flyover then from there to Grendon Underwood.
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.
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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.
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1 hour ago, John Besley said:
That last picture is timeless
I see an anonymous-design modern signal box, CCTV camera and picnic bench which are rather jarring.
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7 hours ago, 5944 said:
Hornby, well Rivarossi, do make an Italian 740 class 2-8-0. Quite why one would be in Greater Manchester is another matter though!
Possibly something to do with the painting being credited to Marcello Corti
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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.
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18 hours ago, br-nse-fan said:
...repainted into GWR livery
...by somebody who had no idea about GWR livery, and was happy to use loco and wagon transfers on carriages 😮
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KIng George VI, I think
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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.
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4 hours ago, The Stationmaster said:
As happenred after the Ladbroke Grove collision. after the inital clearing up and ecovery of proprerty and any bodies etc the OOC crane supervisot and someone from Reading were discussing how they were going to do various lifts when an RAIB. (I think) Inspector overheard the conversation and joined in.
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.
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GWR Signal Box - Type 7 - drawings / photos
in Permanent Way, Signalling & Infrastructure
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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).