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  1. Wickham Green too
    Indeed ! ................ it was the slowing down / speeding up aspect of things I was trying to compare rather than the physical orientation.
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    ... and in Scotland you could mix in Mk1s, LMS stock of various vintages and pre-groping stock from native railways ..... yes even a few GER coaches found their way up there.
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    Interestingly, that's the opposite of the principle on the UndergrounD where stations are often on a hump - the entry rise being used to slow arriving trains and the dip from the platform end used to accelerate away.
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    I suspect British weaving looms - back in the days they were available - would have been supplied as kits of parts and built on site ................... inserting fully assembled looms into each floor of a dark satanic mill would have been no easy task.
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    Erm ..... how shallow was the water pipe ..... or how deep were they tamping ???!!??
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    T'other way round : BR ( LNWR ) tracks formerly used by the UndergrounD ...... Harrow to Watford.
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    No necessarily heavily used sections but those remote from the power feed ...... my local - Hayes - line still retains a fourth rail for much of its length : a lighter section than the standard juice rail so my guess is that it's original LSWR third rail !!?!
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    Hmmmm .......... Mk1 BFKs weren't particularly numerous at the best of times but the 1982 Platform 5 only list ONE allocated to the WR ..... so, unless it's been 'borrowed', that's W14022 on the tail.
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    You didn't try eating it without peeling it first, did you !!?! 🤢
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    Unfortunately never enforced ............... bent bananas are such a pain to pack in your shopping !
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    Southern Style states "The green markings on banana vans, if they were indeed intended to signify the vans' contents in a discreet manner, also presumably indicate that the banana traffic did continue on however reduced a scale." .................................. the only plausible alternative I can think of is that the vans would be more readily identifiable whenever banana traffic resumed - nobody knew the war still had another four years to run.
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    No - ALL Q1s started out black ........... but didn't stay clean for very long.
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    Indeed - very different ...... off the top of my head I can't think of any branch lines surviving into the'80s with loco- hauled stock of any sort.
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    There are people out there who will happily insist that the Midland & LMS NEVER used maroon .... but Crimson Lake ................ which looks sort of maroon-ish to the rest of us ! 🙄
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    Southampton Docks and Nine Elms, via main line (market goods, fruit or potato train) : single lamp/disc over left hand buffer ( as seen head-on ) Waterloo or Nine Elms and Southampton Docks via East Putney : lamp/disc over left hand buffer ( as seen head-on ) and lamp/disc at centre of buffer beam ..... simple ! ( from 1945 Ian Allan ABC )
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    Indeed - a 'typical' branchline is probably one that's totally different in character to its neighbours ............. Mk1 stock - where used - would generally be mixed in with earlier vehicles unless operated in fixed sets ( Southern lines to Exmouth etc. f'rinstance ).
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    SSSSHHHHHHHHH ! - there might be some Russkies tapping-in to RMweb !
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    Ah - yes ........... Swindon being different as usual ! 3/1/87
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    Sounds perfectly reasonable to me ! 😊
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    This lot probably : - https://www.nationalrail.co.uk/service-disruptions/west-ealing-20240405
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    How was the original plate mounted on 7006 ? ............ this one would not mount on a curved door without some sort of spacers.
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    What we think of as LSWR 'classes' weren't described as such until the Southern tried to tidy things up - fifteen years or more after the K14s were built ........ even a hundred years later, I'd hesitate to call that 'soon'.
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    "... three wheels of the locomotive came off the tracks" ........... intriguing ! - or do they mean three axles ? ( a journalist wouldn't know the difference )
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    What better place to test your landslip restoration & future-proofing techniques !!?!
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    Am I imagining things or is that first coach from the XP64 train ? ...... if so, someone might know where it might've ben seen.
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