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  1. Fat Controller
    Was that the Whitley Bay Horticultural Society's trip to Mallaig? If so, we were on board!
  2. 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'.
  3. 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.
  4. Fat Controller
    Wasn't there another S&DJR?
  5. 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.
  6. Fat Controller
    It's when you discover why those points at X and Y, which you've never know move, are there.....
  7. 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
  8. Fat Controller
    'Model Railways' did a series of articles on road signs and street furniture, back in the late 1970s/ early 1980s.
  9. Fat Controller
    The 'half and half' wagon seems to h.ave been inspired by one of those winch wagons used on CWR trains
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Fat Controller
    Brake shoes and wheel-sets spring to mind.
  13. Fat Controller
    I believe this has already started; Appleford?
  14. Fat Controller
    This particular oddity seems to have spent its days around the creameries of Cumbria.
  15. Fat Controller
    It wasn't war-surplus 'Zimmerit', was it?
  16. 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.
  17. Fat Controller
    I believe some esrly examp;lssas have been been cut up.
  18. 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.
  19. Fat Controller
    The van with a white stripe was a FS example; the white stripe indicating it might be conveying perishable produce.. These survived a few years after the opening of the tunnel, until the Whirlpool warehouse burnt down.
  20. Fat Controller
    Newspapers; the third vehicle is an ex-LMS 50' brake, transferred to the WR, and bearing the markings 'For Use on WR Newspaper Trains Only. Return Empty to Old Oak Common' It had a W prefix to the number, I recall.
  21. Fat Controller
    Probably one of the last commercial traffics were MGs from the works at Abington, alongside a wide selection of NPCSS. It appears that the manufacturer was not convinced of the integrity of the tonneau covers...
  22. Fat Controller
    I didn't know about the Camembert; however, closer to the seat of the fire were some pineapples and a load of processed cheese slices. These latter seemed unaffected by the fire, leading to suggestions that they could be used to patch up the spalled concrete.
  23. Fat Controller
    That's about four E*'s worth....
  24. Fat Controller
    'Fumer la moquette' covers it, I suspect. One too many 'petite fines' after lunch.
  25. Fat Controller
    Limited supplies of the 'right sort of granite' perhaps? More confusingly, spent ballast from Norway is being taken to Longport (Staffs) for the construction industry....
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