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  1. Fat Controller
    Thanks; that's what I remember.
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    Am I correct in remembering that Strange appears as an ACC (or similar) in at least one episode of the original Morse. Obviously, it was a different episode, but he retained the habit of referring to others as 'Matey', whilst making it obvious that it was only a figure of speech. Said officer appeared to have done his National Service in submarines, given the cab-badge and photo on the wall of his office; .
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    The old works was still there a decade later, The rake of white-roofed of air-braked vans is from Rowntree's factory at Fawdon. The white roofs were supposed to keep the chocolate from melting... The van with the darker roof has either brought packaging materials to Rowntree's , or has carried explosives to ICI's depot at Black Callerton, near the airport.
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    It appeared on the BR-built Timber wagons (not the Timber P) as well.
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    I'm pretty certain I saw one at Modane (Franco- Italian border) about 20 years ago.. I wonder why they used a non-standard wheel-base?
  6. Fat Controller
    When the 'Air-Braked Network' was starting, in the mid-1970s, one of the core traffics was tobacco from Will's factory to Glasgow. Ordinary BR air-braked vans were used; the one concession to the nature of the traffic was the presence of 'Crown Locks', as the load was under Bond. A generation earlier, and there had been a regular flow from Player's at Nottingham to Neyland (why Neyland?); the vehicles used were Siphon Gs.
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    They were used to transport loco coal from a pit in South Wales to the GWS at Didcot. At this point, they still belonged to to BR, I believe. When the Speedlink coal network was abandoned, the GWS took them over, to transfer coal from road vehicles to the Railway Centre, as there is no road access to it. There were about ten other examples in use in Speedlink days, initially carrying whiting (fine chalk) from Beverley, then later dolomite limestone from Ferryhill to various locations across Scotland. I saw a couple at Stranraer Town.
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    I believe there were about a thousand or so built. Most don't have VACMA, so are normally used within yards, station limits and engineering possessions. Quite a few were built for export.
  9. Fat Controller
    No wonder the train kept loosing time; the BB63000 used from Calais is a type used for local freight and heavy shunting, with a relatively low top speed and no train heating.
  10. Fat Controller
    There's been someone who modelled Georgemas Jct, I believe, and included some models of the containers.
  11. Fat Controller
    Broadstairs; my wife spent her teenage years in Thanet. One of her neighbours was Jack Warner. That's right; Dixon. 'Evening. all...'
  12. Fat Controller
    There was a reference to Vimes, from Terry Pratchett's Watch in the episode with the bank siege! The 'toffs in masks' are a nod to the Bullingdon Club, which has provided us with two recent Prime Ministers, I believe.
  13. Fat Controller
    One of the oddest pre-WW2 traffics was of live carp from Lake Balaton (Hungary) to East London. It ran until the war started, when the Hungarians (at the time non-belligerent) tried to have the wagons returned.
  14. Fat Controller
    I believe the area in question was well-known for seed potato cultivation, despatching them by rail to growers around the UK by rail, into the recent past. Might what you saw be an export order?
  15. Fat Controller
    It's Hornby, rather than Bachmann, I believe. Nicely weathered. My old boss used to fire these around the Weald in the mid-1960s; he used to say they could haul more than they could stop.
  16. Fat Controller
    Have you been in touch with Cambrian directly? The current price list had details of some of the special orders they've dealt with. Here's ahttps://www.cambrianmodelrail.co.uk/store/Special-Orders-c26320538 link:-
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    C9463: the open wagons that are distributing their load across the country are former Southern Region Ferry Opens. Built with 8 planks, many lost their upper planking and the upper 'cupboard' doors when transferred initially to 'whiting' traffic , then to Dolime traffic.
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    Not ROF, but MoD/ RN; have you looked at Ernesettle, near Plymouth? It has a jetty in the Tamar estuary, formerly served by a narrow gauge line, which passed under the former L&SWR main line from Plymouth to Exeter. On the landward side, the narrow- gauge line ran into numerous underground bunkers, as well as an exchange shed, which served the standard gauge connection to the main-line.
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    It would probably pull out of, or break, the rail fasteners at the sleepers, rather than breaking the glued joint. This certainly happened on some track on my garden railway during the summers. To reduce deformation, might it be an idea to fix the sleepers 'outside' the running rails? They would act in the same manner as the built-up ballast 'shoulders' to be seen on the prototypes.
  21. Fat Controller
    Thanks, anyway. Shame the question wasn't asked a decade ago, as one of my late mother-in-law's neighbours (who my wife used to visit, had worked in a factory that manufactured propellers during WW2.
  22. Fat Controller
    Any chance you could post the French original ?
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    One of the major wagon hiring and leasing companies in France (and also in the UK) is a company called TOUAX, which was formed to provide barge-towing facilities on the canals of Northern France. Whilst they no longer use railway locos to haul barges, they are big players in both the rail freight and inland waterway markets. There is a museum near St Quentin which might be of interest:- https://www.weekend-en-hautsdefrance.com/le-touage-de-riqueval-et-son-musee/
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    I believe it was the layout of a (sometime) member of this group; the layout was based on a chemical plant in Cadoxton, South Wales, featuring an imaginative use of 'repurposed' household items. The builder's brother sometimes posts on here.
  25. Fat Controller
    We were on the excursion to Fort William, and went on to Mallaig; a good day out, but very tiring.
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