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eastglosmog

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  1. For something that needs attention and lacks buffers, £159.56 is a bit steep: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195844949950 I've just bought a new one that runs perfectly and has all its buffers for £154.18!
  2. Worcester Foregate St has the A38 (Sansome Walk) going under it
  3. It would be being peddled as an excellent demonstration of how safe the nuclear flasks are?
  4. Could easily be Clackmannan or Stirlingshire, both of which supplied house coal
  5. The Fife Coalfield was high volatile steam and house coal, rank 800/900, so plenty of house coal for local supply. (My uncle used to mine the stuff.)
  6. 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, starting at about 24:05. They also had a reconstruction of Roman survey methods, but can't find that at the moment.
  7. 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!
  8. 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.
  9. Class 172 on the 12:47 West Midlands service leaving for Stratford on Avon leaving Worcester Shrub Hill platform 1 on Wednesday 28th February.
  10. POA = Price on Application? Maybe you have to pay a lot extra for the box?
  11. Not unless Tashkent is some kind of flower in Russian. (Its a Tashkent class Russian destroyer of which there was only 1).
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. To misquote Stroudley, I take it that must be "Improved Engine Black" or green to everyone else!
  15. 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.
  16. 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
  17. These rails carried the mine tubs from the Knight Shaft of the Mogul Mines of Ireland at Garryard. Last used in 1982.
  18. I think the technical name is a Rising Butt Hinge, used to lift doors up over carpet, for example.
  19. Yes indeed. I suspect the looseness of the wheels is an indication it is not in boxed condition, whatever they may say!
  20. 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?
  21. Assuming (and that may be a rather optimistic assumption) that it really is 00 gauge, then it looks more like a Talyllyn slate wagon in 7mm/ft.
  22. I have spent my working life around spoil heaps and similar things. Must have thousands of such pictures. At £2 a go, could retire easily!
  23. I also think it is a reproduction, reason being I have had the same map hanging on my wall for forty years or so. I know that was a reproduction when I bought it, but can't remember where from now.
  24. A few from the Fawley, Hythe and Southampton in 1967, after passenger services had ceased but local goods services were just clinging on: Hythe: Fawley goods yard
  25. A thought about the layout of the sidings. I remember some having the sidings at the edge of the yard, with much more space between the tracks so that the mobile crane and lorries could service either siding without having to move too far. Example here of Hythe (Hants) in 1967: The left hand track is only a few yards from the yard boundary fence and the right hand one near the base of the railway embankment on which the passenger station stood.
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