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Oldddudders

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  1. If it's any consolation, half-relief oaks do exist in real life, and can be very healthy. I have two on the north boundary of the garden, and every Autumn the farmer gets his contractor to cut away the growth on his side from that year, as he is entitled to do. The rich foliage in summer, and the large number of acorns, indicate the trees are unconcerned. 

  2. A splendid representation of this iconic bridge, so emblematic of the Padstow line. I think I cycled over it in 1997, but my last train ride across it was 1965, sadly. 

     

    Might the cylindrical elements be called caissons? A chap who used to be on RMweb, Torr Giffard, was building a comparable 4mm structure from metal and I think that was the term he used. He left abruptly following the loss of his wife, but his thread may still be extant. Ah, yes.

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  3. If the Southern green apes Birch Grove as currently painted, then it represents the SR in the '20s, rather as the umber will be post-1905 LBSCR. There is then a gap until early-BR. The GE Division had a very pretty little blue pilot at Liv St into the '60s, too, so there are precedents elsewhere for a heritage paint-scheme. E4s regularly worked across the marshes to Ashford, so the loco is right for the locale, but only you can decide which livery will be most pleasing.

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