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A Nod To Brent - a friendly thread, filled with frivolity, cream teas and pasties. Longing for the happy days in the South Hams 1947.

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NHY 581

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Did you manage to rescue Jimmy Carter or did you leave it to Cap'n Poldark?:

 

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Makes a pleasant change from Jenny A...........or possibly not....

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Tim Dubya

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I think you are all voting next week on whether to graciously let English possessions across the channel go their own way. Me and the wife have decided to stand aside cos she is a frenchie sympathiser from Scotland.

 

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Please vote, even if you just scribble a joke on your papers.

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Could someone please explain the significance of the coloured axle boxes seen these days on just about any loco and rolling stock.  I remember them covered in dirt and grease!

 

Brian.

I believe it indicates the type of grease the bearings are packed with, and relates to the colours of the drums the lubricant arrives in. They became common from the late 1950s onwards, as more and more stock received roller-bearing axleboxes. The first ones I recollect were yellow, or yellow with a red stripe, but I've subsequently seen maroon, blue, and green, and there are probably some out there in sky-blue pink.

I have seen photos of (non-roller-bearing) GWR coaching stock with painted axle-boxes; does anyone know anything about the significance of these?

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Like the Beetle, Robin. Haven't seen it on ANTB before, one of the Parkside kits I guess?

It's been shewn before and I'd like another now my kit building skills have improved.

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