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  1. billbedford
    That is inordinately precise for a model railway bodge. How about - The swing link has to be long enough to clear the bogie's leading axle or headstock and the fix pin should not foul the loco's buffer beam.
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    Every gale will soke the field with sea spray.
  3. billbedford
    If your D7 bogie has a centre pin and stays on the track, then you can use the same arrangement on the Atlantic, though you may have to add some side play to the trailing wheelset.
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    If I remember correctly, the Atlantic was on the other side of the hill behind the farm, so they all had more than enough salt.
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    No, no, Orkney kine are smaller, but more friendly:
  6. billbedford
    But these were managed by firemen throwing shovelfuls of hot clinker down the banks.
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    This is not true. Almost all woodland in England had been managed until WW1. When I was younger, we lived next to a remnant of Rockingham Forest. About half of what I played in was coppiced hazel, and the rest mixed hardwoods. One part stands out in my memory, a stand of maybe eight ash trees planted close together, which were straight and seemed much higher than the rest of the canopy. I learned later that they had likely been planted like that for long straight timber such as fence rails.
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    Elms were planted by farmers as a "pension" for their grandsons. The timber was in constant demand, especially for coffins. The fact that these planted trees were all rooted from cuttings meant that they were clones without much genetic variety, which explains why English elms all succumbed to Dutch Elm disease in a relatively short time.
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    If it was a hedge planted by the railway it would be mainly quickthorn with a few random other species. Such a hedge would very likely have been laid to form a thick barrier to livestock. The poplars look like they have been planted post railway as a wind break.
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    And there's the Richard Montgomery just off Sheerness
  11. billbedford
    Yes, but they are not Aurochs.
  12. billbedford
    So what have the Greenies been releasing in Kent then?
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  14. billbedford
    Don't be silly. Old signs can hang around long after the information they contain has ceased to be relevant, as the 'Ghosts in the Machine' thread shows.
  15. billbedford
    Err no. The cutouts were three hexagonal holes each centred on the corner brackets for the containers.
  16. billbedford
    More to the point, people will remember the one incident where a phone was blamed for something, than millions of times where nothing remarkable happened
  17. billbedford
    Is this Norwegian ballast spoil from their ship tunnel?
  18. billbedford
    If you don't think you are getting the full pension, it's worth applying for Pension Credit which will make up the difference between the pension the DWP calculates and the "full" Pension.
  19. billbedford
    Everyone has assumed that this ban was about phones being a fire risk, but I was told at an early stage of the technology, the ban was more about active phones possibly interfering with the signals between the pumps and the control equipment and cash registers.
  20. billbedford
    I was also wondering whether fixed-sided wagons would have been preferred to drop-sided?
  21. billbedford
    With slate loads wouldn't they be wedged in tight so they weren't likely to move when in motion?
  22. billbedford
    The Midland also had 500 long low wagons with 9-inch sides, which since they were classed as specials, would not have been included in the common agreements. The later conflat types came into this category.
  23. billbedford
    They'll make the whole country into a ULEZ.
  24. billbedford
    Yes because timber got progressively more expensive from the mid-19th century leading to standard wagons having narrower planks
  25. billbedford
    But wait until the AI reports something like "The cat knocked the train off the track"
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