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  1. Fat Controller
    It does look like smoke, but the first wagon is unfitted, and the lever is in the 'Off' position
  2. Fat Controller
    I spent my formative years within sight of Worm's Head. The area has a fast tide, with a range of more than 30 feet. Even experienced mariners can be taken by surprise, as the number of wrecks shows. I would certainly be very wary of going out on the head without some provisions; you might be stranded for some time.
  3. Fat Controller
    Is this because the dock at Dunkerque had lock gates at its entrance, , unlike the later Dover one, which was subject to the full tidal range?
  4. Fat Controller
    You'll often find views of LIFT in the background of these Wagon Information Sheets that BR used to do. There were similar set-ups at Birmingham (Landor St), Manchester (Trafford Park) and Glasgow (Salkend); as well as cargo-handling facilities, they were equipped for Customs clearance, and had Bonded Warehousing.
  5. Fat Controller
    The platforms on the Col;wich line at Stone went years ago; certainly by the time I moved to Stoke in 1977.
  6. Fat Controller
    There are a couple of people who post on here who were involved in the clear-up. There had been another incident at Maidstone East which involved wagons carrying coil; I'm not sure what type.
  7. Fat Controller
    There should be some spaces in the number sequence, being vehicles destroyed in the Staplehurst derailment (1996 ?)
  8. Fat Controller
    Was that the Whitley Bay Horticultural Society's trip to Mallaig? If so, we were on board!
  9. Fat Controller
    It might be worth seeing if Googling 'Brian Rolley, or looking at the Facebook pages of 'Railways of South Wales' produce anything. There was also a series of postings on the Roath branch on RM Web a few years ago. The author was someone who rejoiced in the name 'Pixie'.
  10. Fat Controller
    There was probably some form of 'dragging or derailed material' detection; after all. such systems were installed from new on the Channel Tunnel, so they're hardly new technology. I've not been in the Gotthard control centre, but I have had a visit to its equivalent on the BLS . This has things like a virtual loading gauge, which detects moved loads and misplaced sheets, showing where the discordance is, and the degree of the problem.
  11. Fat Controller
    Wasn't there another S&DJR?
  12. Fat Controller
    I was told of a derailment on the Berks and Hants where the derailed wagons ran for 8 or more miles before it was realised the train was off the rails.
  13. Fat Controller
    It's when you discover why those points at X and Y, which you've never know move, are there.....
  14. Fat Controller
    My wife just forwarded this link tp me:- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/17/gotthard-base-tunnel-railway-train-closed-for-months-switzerland-derailment?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
  15. Fat Controller
    'Model Railways' did a series of articles on road signs and street furniture, back in the late 1970s/ early 1980s.
  16. Fat Controller
    The 'half and half' wagon seems to h.ave been inspired by one of those winch wagons used on CWR trains
  17. Fat Controller
    Interesting to see the Mk2 FO in York. I was a little surprised to see that it had black, rather than maroon, ends.
  18. Fat Controller
    I have seen them described, erroneously, as 'Shot Towers', to which they bore a resemblance. They were a reasonably common sight around docks, providing hydraulic power for cranes, lock gates etc.
  19. Fat Controller
    Brake shoes and wheel-sets spring to mind.
  20. Fat Controller
    I believe this has already started; Appleford?
  21. Fat Controller
    This particular oddity seems to have spent its days around the creameries of Cumbria.
  22. Fat Controller
    It wasn't war-surplus 'Zimmerit', was it?
  23. Fat Controller
    With regard as to the use of open and covered wagons:- Open coil wagons are used to carry Hot Reduced Coil, which is covered by a substance called 'Mi Scale This falls off when the coil passes through the finishing plant mill, after which the coil is usually 'pickled, to give a surface that will take a coating (in, zinc or polymer) Covered coil wagons normally carry Cold Reduced Coil, which is ready for the end user.
  24. Fat Controller
    I believe some esrly examp;lssas have been been cut up.
  25. Fat Controller
    It is one of the turbo-powered sets. At the time of the photo, they worked from Gare du Nord to Boulogne Aeroglisseurs, St Lazare to Cherbourg and somewhere on the SE Region. Noisy, smelly things.
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