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  1. 4069
    Greenford box is still in use. West Ruislip box closed in 1990 and has been derelict ever since.
  2. 4069
    The signalling on the Uxbridge branch has been automatic since 1930, which is probably when the blind windows and the adjacent equipment room date from. Ruislip box hasn't been functional for many years, but it is listed along with the station buildings.
  3. 4069
    Erm... Tintern isn't on the Severn and Wye. The book you cite covers the stations at Lydney (Junction and Town), Whitecroft and Parkend.
  4. 4069
    Glad it's not just me that notices things like that.
  5. 4069
    Of course they were, and had been altered by the 60s. My point is that those are nice models of upper-quadrant signals which, for whatever reason, are shown drooping well below the horizontal in a situation where a train is passing, giving the impression that something is seriously wrong.
  6. 4069
    It would help the illusion if the signals (assuming they are meant to be at 'clear') were set in the upper quadrant that they were designed to move in.
  7. 4069
    That's Walnut Tree Junction
  8. 4069

    John Miles

    4069 replied to DLT's topic in Obituaries

    Nice one!
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    John Miles

    4069 replied to DLT's topic in Obituaries

    Has he any connection with railways? If not, why is this here?
  10. 4069
    My apologies- I didn't mean to suggest that any of the O1s had the wrong type of door. The point I was trying to make is that so often the shape of the smokebox door is a weak point in a whitemetal kit. Thick, clumsy-looking doors that do not match the subtle curve of the real thing spoil the face of the loco and stand out like a sore thumb. RTR manufacturers usually, but not always, get this right.
  11. 4069
    As is so often the case, the Hornby is the one with the right shape of smokebox door. On the right.
  12. 4069
    Wem North, according to the Signalling Record Society.
  13. 4069
    Neither LNWR nor LMS- it's actually BR LMR, having opened in 1948.
  14. 4069
    I'm delighted to hear that you were able to rescue that lever description backboard from the water tower, and look forward to hearing more about it.
  15. 4069
    I'm not suggesting you are wrong about the frame colour, but surely every Swindon works grey photograph shows light frames and cylinders, even in the era when we know both were black in service?
  16. 4069
    That's Sheffield Midland
  17. 4069
    No- the lorry is 13'4" high and the bridge is signed at 10' 9". No room for doubt there!
  18. 4069
    I'd put (a little) money on Denham Golf Club
  19. 4069
    The 23'6" turntables at Yelverton and Princetown were provided for turning snowploughs. They were too short for the 4400 class locomotives which usually worked the branch.
  20. 4069
    Try this: https://www.instagram.com/p/CSzl0C-qyWY/?utm_medium=copy_link Should work for anyone
  21. 4069
    Properly Bristol Old Station, of Midland Railway origin but with a GWR frame since 1908, and closed in 1965
  22. 4069
    I'll raise you Wimbledon
  23. 4069
    I'm glad I took the plunge as it is indeed a very fine book. Nice to see evidence of actual proof-reading, in the correction to the Bath Junction plan date from the pre-publication image posted at the start of this thread. One wonders if that actually cost any sales- it was certainly a close-run thing for me, but the positive things said by people on here tipped the balance.
  24. 4069
    Look hard at page 66, upper diagram, right-hand side.
  25. 4069
    ...and in the OPC book the plans were correctly dated! Not impressive.
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