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Whitby for me as well.  Its a long way to travel from the other side.

In OZ

Mark

 

Best fish and chips in UK according to Rick Stein at the Magpie Cafe. Also where Capt Cook left from to discover Australia.  So whats not to like about it.

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14 minutes ago, mullie said:

Wells next the Sea, really unusual track plan with the engine shed in front of the goods shed 

 

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Thanks Martyn. I try to stay neutral, but I'm really pleased Wells gets a mention, as it strikes me as having everything that makes a small branch line terminus. I thought seriously about trying to model it at one time, but I couldn't quite shake off my ECML fixation.

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4 hours ago, Metropolitan H said:

I think today's seaside terminus has to be Swanage - Bulleid light pacifics, Urie rebuilt T9s, ex LSWR M7 tanks and BR Class 4 2-6-4Ts etc. What is not to like.

 

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Chris H

 

Yes, Swanage for me as well. All the above plus Standard class. 2&3 tanks, Standard class 4 2-6-0’s  , U class 2-6-0 s  , and on the goods side Drummond 0-6-0’s and both Q and Q1’s.

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12 hours ago, MEGair said:

Hi Gilbert,  Congratulations on ten years of Peterborough North.  it has been fascinating, inspirational and informative.

I am interested in your signals and where they are placed on the layout and what they are there for.  Could you elaborate on this.  I know this may take some time, so seeing that others have said they hope you keep going, here is another aspect to cover.  I am working on layout signals and looking into a friends O gauge layout, which is 45' x 20'.

 

It may also require some more aerial photography.

 

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Mark

Hi Mark,

 

Here is the Down side.

 

 

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From the left, the nice clean bracket is for the Down slow. Home and Distant govern the acess back onto the Down main. On all three brackets the centre arm is for New England yards, and the right hand one for New England coal roads.

Next one along is for the exit from Platform 6. The distant is fixed. The bracket behind governs the Down main, the single arm left of the A3 is for the bay platforms, and far right above the A3 boiler is the Down starter. That was positioned over there for sighting reasons.

 

The Up is much simpler, just the one signal with home, distant and a small calling on arm. hope that helps.

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5 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Seaside Termini, off to a holiday camp where the highlight of the week is granddad coming second in the knobbly knees contest...

 

Of course, not forgetting Minehead, at one end of that other railway.

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19 minutes ago, Tim Dubya said:

 

Of course, not forgetting Minehead, at one end of that other railway.

Is that in bandit country? If it is my mum wouldn't have let me go there. "Anywhere west of Royal Oak underground station and all sorts of things will happen to you", she used to warn me. 

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This is a very difficult poll, there are several small seaside termini in Yorkshire, with Withernsea, Hornsea and Whitby. I think all three are excellent candidates, and Hornsea and Withernsea I firmly believe are so often overlooked and or just forgotten about. Hence I started that East Yorkshire photo’s thread. So I’m going with Hornsea, it had a delightful overall roof, along with a turntable, and two excursion platforms, amongst other attributes.

 

Best regards,

 

 Rob.

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40 minutes ago, great northern said:

 

Just been watching a programme about people climbing Everest, and am now rather breathless.

 

That is why I no longer watch porn, far to energetic and just watching makes me breathless. 

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7 hours ago, Clive Mortimore said:

Is that in bandit country? If it is my mum wouldn't have let me go there. "Anywhere west of Royal Oak underground station and all sorts of things will happen to you", she used to warn me. 

Too right. I once went to a pub in Westbourne Park and met Sarah Hollamby from Blue Peter.

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Seaside termini poll.  I was trying to chose one that I've been to and you can still go to, and there are lots.  Several of the smaller ones on the South Coast haven't been mentioned yet.

 

But I think I'll go for one that you can't go to by train any longer - Lossiemouth.  I did go there once for a holiday, but it was a long time after it closed.  But it would make a nice model railway, with a harbourside siding, and at one time through sleeping cars to King's Cross.

 

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Well, you do like your small seaside termini. More votes on this than anything else so far, I think, 27 of them. They were spread over 17 locations, so no big winner this time. Whitby 4 Swanage 3 were the top two.

 

Now I have to try and remember where we have got to. Ah yes, we started in London, then went to large City termini outisde the capital, after which we headed for the seaside, large and small. I think we have concluded the holiday scene now, so let's look at the smaller termini, but leave the rural branch line terminus to have a category of its own.

 

Right, town termini today, to include coastal ones that were not really holiday destinations. But no "classic" BLTs.

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