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1956, 'Modelling the Old Time Railways' by Edward Beal.  Year Leader in Mathematics at Kynaston Comp,

then we moved down to Winchester and a Sec Mod.,
Still have the book, though to safeguard the cover, it has a further brown paper wrapper on it.

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29 minutes ago, Penlan said:

1956, 'Modelling the Old Time Railways' by Edward Beal.  Year Leader in Mathematics at Kynaston Comp,

then we moved down to Winchester and a Sec Mod.,
Still have the book, though to safeguard the cover, it has a further brown paper wrapper on it.

To avoid the embarrassment of being seen with a book on model railways, hide it within the pages of a pornographic magazine…

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16 hours ago, Compound2632 said:

 

 trades as "Coast Line Models".

And he produces excellent numberplates - I had some arrive the other day :rolleyes:

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5 minutes ago, John-Miles said:

I never won a school prize, they didn't think I was worth it and eventually I left and did my A levels at Tech College

 

Emeritus Professor John Miles, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, MBCS, MASCE - so that's one up to me.

What they call a "late developer" :)

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7 hours ago, John-Miles said:

I never won a school prize, they didn't think I was worth it and eventually I left and did my A levels at Tech College

 

Emeritus Professor John Miles, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, MBCS, MASCE - so that's one up to me.

You could never win, as despite winning a prize every year I was at the grammar school, I told that I would be lucky to get a job running the pick'n'mix counter in Woolies. As John Lennon said, they hate you if you're clever and they despise a fool.

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A friend posted a profile picture on Friends Reunited of him in front of his S class Mercedes with a personalised number plate with the message, “To Mr. Bowen who said I’d never amount to anything, you are welcome polish my car any time you like.”

That was his only reason for going on that site.

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20 hours ago, John-Miles said:

Emeritus Professor John Miles, BSc, MSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, MBCS, MASCE - so that's one up to me.

I thought 'C. Eng.,' was supposed to cut out all that proliferation of titles :jester:

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2 hours ago, Penlan said:

I thought 'C. Eng.,' was supposed to cut out all that proliferation of titles :jester:


I used to be MIEEE and MIEE, but gave up on those when I realised I was just paying for their magazines which I rarely got around to reading. These days I just use Dr when I feel like it - I like to confuse people by being a doctor of a medical based subject, but not a doctor of medicine.

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6 hours ago, sharris said:

I like to confuse people by being a doctor of a medical based subject, but not a doctor of medicine.

Ah, the difference between an earned title and a job description!

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My sympathies John-Miles. I likewise learnt to swim (just) in an outdoor, unheated pool  in the Peak District. We hoped it would rain on swimming days as it made the water seem "warmer".

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Enough! It is abundantly clear that I've not been doing enough (any) wagon modelling recently - nor will I next week as we're off on holiday again, this time near Kington - where we had booked to go at the beginning of April 2020...

 

I'd even bought the guidebook:

 

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Meanwhile, here's some advice on packing:

 

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High sided wagon No. 88181, built 1892, photographed on 14 February 1902, illustrating method of loading boxes.

[DY 2494, released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) licence by the National Railway Museum.]

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Those casks at the top, you couldn't make it up :blink:

 

Nice illustration of a repainted plank, too.

 

PS: Does anyone happen to have a good view of the inside framing on an RCH 1887 wagon? I posted a small query on Dave's blog here.

 

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18 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

PS: Does anyone happen to have a good view of the inside framing on an RCH 1887 wagon? I posted a small query on Dave's blog here.

 

I have replied there.

 

As to the load, I think it's been got up for the photo from whatever boxes, crates, etc. were to hand - in other words it's a set-up for the photo, not a real load. But it agrees with the description of loading given in a 1907 article by F.W. West, the LNWR Crewe Goods Agent, which I have quoted before. Of course a real load would be sheeted and roped (or roped and sheeted?) before leaving the goods station.

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32 minutes ago, Mikkel said:

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PS: Does anyone happen to have a good view of the inside framing on an RCH 1887 wagon? I posted a small query on Dave's blog here.

 

I have always had the impression that all RCH wagon specs until the 1923 one were so generic that each manufacturer could basically make it up as they went along. So I'm by no means sure that any photo of a wagon would mean much without knowing the name of its maker. A bit like C3P0

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