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The list of corrections has since been published separately as Pannier Supplement No. 1 and is (was?) available from the GWSG.

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".

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.

I think that signal replaced the disc which can be seen (partly) covered up here. The one alongside was a direct semaphore replacement. Here they are when new, January 1980: Apologies for the poor quality of the picture, but at least it was taken from a genuine GWR vehicle:

That was formerly the City shop of Fox, the umbrella manufacturers, which explains the reference to repairs and recoverings. https://www.foxumbrellas.com/pages/fox-umbrellas-ltd

They have not appeared so far.

It's definitely Fambridge (Wrotten End) and Southminster, see here:

I had a similar email, and phoned Kernow as I have no current orders with them. The very helpful chap apologised and said that something had gone wrong and a large number of emails had been sent out in error (note that the consignment ref is "ignore email"), and should be disregarded.

I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear. Cooke's GWR Track diagrams runs to volume 61 (and is still being added to, now published by Lightmoor Press). Pryer's SR track diagrams stopped at volume 10, back in 1987, and George Pryer died in 2004.

That is all true, but @C126 was correct in his reference to This is an earlier publication, entirely separate from the signalbox diagrams, and published by Cooke alongside his own set of GWR track plans. The set I have covers the whole of the ex-LSWR lines in nine volumes, but it then stopped at Vol.10 (West Sussex).

OK, thanks. Perhaps you should supply it ready-weathered as the shiny white roof doesn't really work for a vehicle that must have been at least six years away from its last repaint 🙂

No, I'm looking at the 1930s GWR version with the white roof and shirtbutton monogram, which is numbered W2780.

Why does the GWR version have a W in front of the running number?

If you were at the Great Central Railway on Saturday 14th January, and witnessed an accident in which a passenger was injured after falling from a carriage door at Loughborough, please consider contacting the Rail Accident Investigation Branch: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/raib-witness-appeal-loughborough https://www.gov.uk/government/news/serious-injury-to-a-passenger-alighting-from-a-train-at-loughborough-central-station-great-central-railway

As a lifelong resident of the area I can confidently say that, mainly thanks to the rigidity of Green Belt planning laws, Metroland beyond Harrow has changed very little over the last fifty years. JB would still recognise most of what was included in the original film. I don't regard the Exhibition buildings at Wembley as being much of a loss- they were cheaply built for their original purpose and it is remarkable that they survived as long as they did. The character of the centre of Wembley has certainly changed- it went right down in the 70s but has since been extensively redeveloped and is, in my view, much better for it. The housing stock has seen a similar trajectory, with variable results. My parents (who both came from Wembley) said that the Sudbury Court estate was jerry-built and wouldn't last, but it is very well-kept and "sought-after" today.

If the box belonged to someone called It, "It's box" would be correct. 😮

I did say it was and I had the complete absence of RAIB, ORR and BTP, and the pathetic site control mainly in mind. Also worthy of note was that there was not a single example of orange PPE visible. Heritage railways are almost as enthusiastic as Network Rail when it comes to getting staff properly kitted out. RAIB has a statutory obligation to investigate any collision or derailment that results in death or five or more cases of serious injury, provided there are safety lessons to be learned. They would certainly attend this sort of event, though they might have some difficulty working out why the driver died, given the complete absence of damage to the locomotive and that the train should not have been travelling at more than 25 mph. Apologies if this was explained in the second part of the programme, but I was not sufficiently motivated to watch it. Stuart J RAIB (retired)

I watched this for the rail interest, not having been a viewer of Silent Witness before, and frankly it was dreadful. Wooden script and terrible acting, set in a parallel universe that had no relationship to how things are done in real life, and a plot that was just silly. I presume this used to be a better programme?

The Midland Railway never had a signal box with a window three panes wide- Dent's should be four wide by three high: https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=81023&category_id=64&page=2065

It's nothing to do with maintenance standards- the railway would not be permitted to run at more than 25 mph without extensive modifications to rolling stock and signalling. Central locking on all doors, TPWS, data recorders... It would cease to be a heritage railway. The Light Railway Order is irrelevant to operations today, which are governed by the Railways and Other Guided Trnasport Systems (Safety) Regulations 2006, or ROGS: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/599/contents

The rest of the description seems OK- but that isn't a toplight, it's from the next generation of stock, steel-panelled.

It had gone by the time of the 1928 edition of the Requirements https://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=7409

The issue was raised in this post:

The relative proportions of the windows and the panels above them still look wrong, spoiling the look of the whole vehicle. Very disappointing, and I will be cancelling my order.