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Winchelsea:

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Hurlford:

Clue - this station is apparently near Rannoch Moor (or, at least, vice versa)!

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Great Malvern.

Bump - since we seem to have the pictures back!

A few days late (due to circumstances beyond our control ). October 17, 1964 ??“ St. Rollox and the ???steam??™ side only of Eastfield. St. Enoch: Britannia - 70005 Central: Class 40 - D322; Class 45 - D24 Eastfield: Fairburn tank - 42154, 42690, 42694 Stanier tank - 42656 Hughes/Fowler mogul - 42863, 42880 Stanier 5 - 44670, 44795, 44815, 44968, 44970, 45057, 45105, 45148, 45245, 45490 A4 - 60026 A2 - 60512, 60530 V2 - 60822, 60834 B1 - 61008, 61133, 61140, 61400 J37 - 64563 J38 - 65932 Standard 5 - 73078, 73104, 73105, 73109 Standard 4 mogul - 76105 St. Rollox: Stanier 5 - 44696, 44793, 44922, 45115, 45178, 45213, 45214, 45321, 45413, 45468, 45473, 45499 A4 - 60010, 60027, 60031 Standard 5 - 73146, 73151 WD - 90386 Class 21/29 - D6116 Class 40 - D359 Class 46 - D163 Class D2/10 (pre-TOPS) - D2733 Several locos from English sheds, on the way to or from works. 45105 at Eastfield was ex-works with a 68A shedplate ??“ someone must have been working from a very old list of shedcodes!

Clue - the line in this square sees scheduled passenger trains on summer Sundays only.

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North Lissens, between Lugton and Kilwinning:

Clue - 46253 (approximately)

It seems the unrebuilt Bulleid pacifics were considered ???slippery??™ on the S&D and their allowed load adjusted accordingly. Robin Atthill in his book ???The Somerset & Dorset Railway??™ comments on this. He says ?????¦ it was hoped that they would be able to take at least ten coaches unassisted, about 320 tons tare??™, but because they were liable to slipping, they had to be limited to the same top load as the Stanier 5s (270 tons). He also gives ratios of top load to tractive effort (in tons) for several classes of locos used on the S&D. The ratio for 2Ps was 26 to 1, for Stanier 5s 24 to 1, and for 9Fs 23.5 to 1. The figure for Bulleids was 19.5 to 1. Using the value of this figure for the 9F (the lowest other than the Bulleid??™s) gives a possible load of 288 tons for a Clan ??“ 18 tons more than the load for a Bulleid pacific or Stanier 5.

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Netley:

Yes, just east of Culmstock: and Arthur Pain was the engineer.

Clue - this was built as a light railway by an engineer who went on to build several other light railways, including the Lyme Regis branch and the Southwold Railway.

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Just south of Huntingdon.