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Mudgeeraba (QLD) - on the Coolangatta branch of the south coast line. Here's old the hotel and the station. From wikipedia: It is thought that the name was derived from an Indigenous Australian expression meaning, "place of infant's excrement", "place where someone told lies" or "place of sticky soil". Another theory is that the name means "low-lying ground". Yes, it's that kind of place.

South Brisbane (QLD) - The grand terminus of the south side lines. It's not a separate town any more but it still has it's own town hall. Were I ever to undertake a model, it would be of this period.

Yatala (QLD) - (on the old south coast line to Southport) famous for pies

London - since no one used it yet. Edit: pipped at the post, "Y" in operation.

Southport (QLD) - the terminus of the south coast line (in the days before there was a "Surfers Paradise") Railway St. is there still, just not the railway.

Eumundi (QLD) in the Sunshine Coast hinterland on the north coast line between Yandina and Cooroy.

Oodnadatta (SA) - perhaps the exact centre of the middle of nowhere. In 1890/1891 it was the terminus of the Great Northern Railway (that later became known as the Ghan).

Yerongpilly (QLD) junction for the Tennyson power station branch and formerly the southside's only railway link to the northside via the Indooroopilly bridge.

Durham (OR) where the streets are named for the Lord of the Rings. See Rivendell Dr. Of course there is one in North Carolina and another one somewhere with a cathedral.

Darwin (NT) - named by John Clements Wickham, Commander of the HMS Beagle in honour of his former shipmate from an earlier voyage; and bombed in 1942 by the same task force of the Japanese Imperial Navy that attacked Pearl Harbor.

Mark, thanks for the reference. Perhaps a nice heavy flywheel would be the perfect thing instead of an idler motor for your 5" gauge model. I'm guessing the mechanics would be simpler (some visible gearing/contact wheel or belt is necessary either way) and it would respond to the brakes quite prototypically. Does the F15 diagram have an underbody mounted generator? If this were modelled with a working belt, a lead weight in the generator housing might be all the extra rotating intertia you need and look perfectly prototypical.

Can't think of a British one, but the Fox Valley Models Hiawatha (MILW Class A) in H0 and N is lovely.

Nerang (QLD) - once one stop south of Ernest Junction on the Coolangatta/Tweed Heads branch line

Is there a penalty or forfeit if you use a duplicate, or is it OK when there are multiple towns with the same name?

Townsville (QLD), the town so nice they named it twice (no that's NY, NY). Actually named for one Robert Towns. More properly according to the rules (does Mornington Cresent count as the name of a "town"?): Murrarrie (QLD) which is closer to home and a stop on the local branch line.

Yes, this is the essence of what I was looking for in the OP - what do people think would work best.

Done. Thank you Brian.

Thank you - googling the F14 (in parallel) I just found that reference to the Wild Swan Official Drawings book on gwr.org.

Wow! Adrian, that was quick. Thank you. (Yes, I am very partial to toplights.)

Per the discussion on the wishlist poll here ... It is time for me to invest in some decent GWR reference material. If anyone has any recomendations along the lines of something I could acquire online, (although airmail on heavy large format books can be a bit extreme) please let me know. In the meantime, if anyone has suggestions for slip coach diagrams that would match the illustrations on this page, that I could pass on to Brian MacDermott please let me know.

There are tons of industrial locomotives that meet this category. (Lots of people were delighted by Hornby's Sentinel diesel announcement too!) There are many 0-4-0ST and 0-6-0ST steam locomotives (and diesels too!) that never appear in the polls (for very good reasons articulated by the wishlist poll team) but would delight many enhusiasts in the same way as the examples you highlight. The list of interesting Avonside, Peckett, Kitson, Andrew Barclay, Hawthorne-Leslie, Hudswell-Clarke, Hunslett, Manning-Wardle, Sentinel, Rushton, etc locomotives that people would enjoy to see as models is huge. A handful of these that were incorporated into railway companies, do show up in the polls of course. The Wickham trolley and the Garratt certainly did. The most recent discussion on standard gauge industrial locomotives is here.

Or the bagpipes. I once attended a wedding where a solo piper played "Love me tender" which sounded quite turgid / funereal / dreadful / all of the above. It was hard to keep a straight face.

And it's only the second GWR livery in the new tooling. There must have been a lot of goodies in that recent container.

My guess would be that the brake composites were formed only at the end of trains and deposited through the journey - not requiring 'handed' versions. Excluding the slipped portions, the 1935 down Cornish Riviera carried four brake composite coaches (for St. Ives, Falmouth, Newquay and Kingsbridge). The core portion of the train to Penzance had brake 3rds at the front and rear. Presumably these were 'handed'. My assumption is that similar configurations were used for earlier formations using toplights.

Yes. (I voted for fully directional lamps and side-markers.)