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  1. Wickham Green too
    There are also additional stiffening plates at the base of the uprights ............. anyway, what suitably reinforced point of contact would take the buffing forces if the Dellner couldn't ?
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    Looks about as smart & prosperous as yer average British High Street. ☹️
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    Not quite the same as http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshiremodelsandsupplieswebsite_218.htm but probably of S.R. origin.
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    Parcels vans were not Common User in the way that most wagons were, so the appearance of 'foreign' vehicles would not have been universal .......... there were, though specific traffic flows such as milk, newspapers and mail-order goods which would have seen regular 'cross-border' traffic to some destinations - also seasonal flows such as soft fruit.
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    Indeed - but https://www.facebook.com/reel/402587138839980 isn't going to remove much more than overnight rust !
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    Exactly the same as with the 'standard' arrangement of end door retaining pins ...... and for the side doors where a - not dissimilar - sliding catch is more common.
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    ... and are set up to recreate the original rail profile ........... the reciprocating thing above would need its 'Peco Track Rubbers' made and maintained to the correct profile - and would need a lot of passes - to achieve the same result.
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    The ribbed one will be the vacuum pipe and will go to the left of the screw coupling - the plain pipe will be the steam heat connection and will go to the right.
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    Should that be in the Grange -over-Mud thread rather than the Landslip one ? ☹️
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    Presumably not enough for it to have troubled the railway companies ........................................................ they may not have been over concerned about the welfare of their servants - but a Scotch Express stuck at Ais Gill - or wherever - without a driver would have been problematic.
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    Moreover, the use of 47s was far from universal : - Bedlay Colliery exchange sidings ; 18/4/80 : unfitted 16T with class 20 Bedlay Colliery exchange sidings ; 18/9/81 : MDV wagons have taken over
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    OK, the expression was used in the USA long before oil boxes ..... but when did it come into common parlance this side of the pond ? ( Unless it was actually an American product there would be no point in branding it thus until we Brits understood the meaning.)
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    For many years GWR rolling stock used round-topped oil axleboxes described as 'OK' type ........ how did this differ from other 'split' oil boxes of the time and what is the significance of 'OK' ? : this was long before 'OK' came to mean 'alright' ( though, presumably, they were ! ) - was there an Orenstein & Koppel connection p'raps ?
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    I love the 'steam age' technology of cranks and connecting rods !
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    'My' fireman had to do that when I was driving from Poznan to Wolsztyn not very many years ago. Standard practice on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - even today.
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    If Aunty Beeb wants to know what British track looks like - here's some I photographed last Tuesday : - Taken with permission.
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    Well, the Kings were named long after their namesakes had passed away .... the King Arthurs even longer after their namesakes were supposed to have been around* ........... and just after the war is exactly when the Battle of Britain class names appeared on Bulleid's Light Pacifics ! * no doubt other examples .... racehorses p'raps
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    Now THAT would have confused lots of people as the English Electric Lightning post-dated the Brit ! 😊
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    ... though actually a Midland Railway site !
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    ... though it doesn't look to be fenced from the road(s) alongside .......... tramway p'raps ?
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    If there was a plan and everyone stuck to it, communication - other than STOP ! - might not have been necessary.
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    Has Blackburn featured in these pages before ? ..... if not it should have : - from Cumbrian Mountain Express : 24/4/99
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    ... and/or simple over exposure as the main subject of the photo is in shadow.
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    Might class 08 sandboxes be available elsewhere ?
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    One thing to note about No.66 is that it only has one set of brakes ............ if it survived much later it would have needed a second set fitting. From reading Keith Turton's notes, Wadsworths cared for their wagons and this would probably have happened to prolong the wagon's life .......... certainly the example that should land on my doormat Monday will receive a second set and will still be in traffic - just - into 1948.
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