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  1. Time Team once did a reconstruction of early 19th Century surveying methods in 'Under the Gravestones' (Castor, Cambridgeshire) | Series 18 Episode 6 | Time Team which is on Youtube at Shows how they did it. They also had a reconstruction of Roman survey methods, but can't find that at the moment.
  2. But at least going westwards the track has ballast all the way to Newlands East, unlike the track over the Severn Bridge, which is on longitudinal sleepers with great big holes down which their wheels fell!
  3. I believe that was someone trying to escape the Police. Clearly doesn't know the area, otherwise would have turned the other way at the level crossing.
  4. Class 172 on the 12:47 West Midlands service leaving for Stratford on Avon leaving Worcester Shrub Hill platform 1 on Wednesday 28th February.
  5. POA = Price on Application? Maybe you have to pay a lot extra for the box?
  6. Not unless Tashkent is some kind of flower in Russian. (Its a Tashkent class Russian destroyer of which there was only 1).
  7. Well, I just hope nobody using the Windrush Line expects to end up in the pleasant West Oxfordshire towns of WItney or Burford or anywhere else up the Windrush valley.
  8. The line was single in broad gauge days and in standard gauge until c 1906 (I think). Had to be doubled on the landward side, otherwise would have had to move the sea wall out! With the main road at the top of the cliffs, could not cut the slope back, so had to build the oblique arch to support the slope.
  9. To misquote Stroudley, I take it that must be "Improved Engine Black" or green to everyone else!
  10. An example of a GWR occupation/accommodation gate across a farm track and footpath near Bledington on the Kingham-Stow section of the Banbury and Cheltenham, closed in 1964.
  11. You need to go a good way down the 2nd page, but GWR.org has a picture of a 2000 gallon Duke tender on an outrigger at Penzance. http://www.gwr.org.uk/no-tenders.html
  12. These rails carried the mine tubs from the Knight Shaft of the Mogul Mines of Ireland at Garryard. Last used in 1982.
  13. I think the technical name is a Rising Butt Hinge, used to lift doors up over carpet, for example.
  14. Yes indeed. I suspect the looseness of the wheels is an indication it is not in boxed condition, whatever they may say!
  15. I don't understand the listing Its in Boxed Condition, but the powered wheels are loose on the axle? Was Triang's quality control then as bad as Boeing's is today?
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