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  1. Fat Controller
    To further muddy the waters, 'Pollock' was the FISHKND given to three Bolster-E converted to run on 2-axle air-braked chassis.......This was in the early-1980s, however.
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    Agreed. After the two instances i West Wales, involving loaded petroleum trains, there were comments about the lack of facilities at the originating refinery.
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    That's a pretty substantial building;. GBRf have built an even bigger facility at Peterborough, which has been photographed in the railway press.
  4. Fat Controller
    What's the current status of Tonbdge West Yard? I recollect Paul Wade's layout included the wagon repair facility. There was a feature on Peterborough Crescent in Model Rail.
  5. Fat Controller
    Have a look at photo-sites such as Davd F and Irish Swiss Ernie, but take some sustenance; you can lose hours in them. One traffic that was noticeable was that of spent fuel flasks for Windscale; no special trains for them at the time.
  6. Fat Controller
    The bogie vans came from Boot's works in Nottingham, I believe.
  7. Fat Controller
    Axonmouth; Potishead is on the opposite bank of the Avon.
  8. Fat Controller
    No shortage in mainland Europe. In France , some that spring to mind are almost a whole family being killed in Beaujolais ( the driver was a pompier from 'our' village, and the first emergency vehicle on site was crewed by villagers); a police car in 'hot pursuit' who just drove through the ungated side of a closed AHR, and a school bus that reversed over a crossing that had just descended.
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    Blast furnaces do not make steel : they make liquid iron. This passes through a 'Convertor' , where additions of various sorts are made, and where the carbon content is managed. These days, most steel manufacture is by the Basic Oxygen process, previously the Siemens Open-Hearth converter and the Bessemer converte were used.
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    Glad to meet you at Canterbury yesterday. I was thinking about those hills again, and remembered there was a specific name for similar features: drumliins. They're residues from glaciers, like a tear-drop in plan-view.
  11. Fat Controller
    Specialist steel can be produced from scrap; the steelworks in the Sheffield area do so, producing steels for the likes of the aerospace and power generation market. One source of their scrap is Network Rail's Whitemoor Yard, which supplies scrap rail and re-bar from concrete sleepers.
  12. Fat Controller
    The build differences may well be prototypical; in the case of the opens rebuilt from TTAs, there were in excess of twenty different Diagrams issued. I can imagine the ex-MGR wagons presented similar issues.
  13. Fat Controller
    It was a very busy little station, even if it was largely the one train shuttling back and forth.. I was amused to see that one of the 'vedettes' was called 'Trenbach'. Was there a covert S4C presence, I wonder? It was interesting to see the Swiss involvement was by the company representing the one language not spoken outside Switzerland.
  14. Fat Controller
    L type{ used initially for cement, in latter years used for delivery of lime and dolomite to steelworks. The last examples in service lasted until the end of the 1970s, some being converted to shunting runners to work with 03s
  15. Fat Controller
    Google 'Robert Opie' and have a look at some of the early packaging on there.
  16. Fat Controller
    The local stone towards the Brecon end would be Old Red Sandstone from the Devonian period; as the name suggests, the original stone would be the same as that found in S W England. Towards the Merthyr end. the rock is of Carboniferous age; both the limestone (a bluey- grey stone) and the Pennant sandstom (yelloy-browm ) might be used. It was not unusual to find buildings where the walls would be of limestone, with door and window openings being of dressed Pennant.
  17. Fat Controller
    And in the Chivers Fineline offering....
  18. Fat Controller
    Pitch blocks . I recollect handling these somewhere. They were wrapped in heavy-duty brown Kraft paper.
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    They do look artificial. don't they? In fact they're the vestiges of a historic shoreline, and are sometimes referred to as the 'Saxon Shore, though they are probably a lot older than that. The first you see, by the junction for the Tunnel, is 'Summerhouse Hill'. The second one, to the east of the tunnel portal, is Round Hill. sometimes referred to as 'Caesar's Camp'.
  20. Fat Controller
    CNC/SNCF ran a very mixed fleet of non[ISO boxes until the Train Ferry ceased operation in Autumn 1995. They brought pet food from a site near Orleans in a mixture of caisse-mobiles and Ferrywagons as far as Dunkerque, where the boxes were transhipped to road.for the journey to the Midlands
  21. Fat Controller
    I have been on a E* which wasn't allowed the traverse the Tunnel, possibly due to a TVM failure. The driver changed ends, and took the train back to Ashford. Here, we were transferred to loaded train that had been held for us. As both trains had been well-loaded, there were a lot of standing passengers.; the chef-du-train apologised for the over-crowding, and compensation forms were given out on arrival at GdN
  22. Fat Controller
    Fir 'Eurotunnel, read 'Eurostar'; my former colleagues at ET have quite enough on their plateaux.....
  23. Fat Controller
    The ones with the blue canopies are the ones built for GERS, and now operated by TOUAX. The arrived about 10 years after the ERMEWA ones, and are Dutch -registered (country code 84)
  24. Fat Controller
    Resembles the Morehall on Cheriton High St; now converted into flats.
  25. Fat Controller
    In the decade we lived in an ex-mining village, we only paid for a handful of loads of coal, mostly during the strike. On the other had, I chopped a lot of kindling...
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