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  1. wagonman
    Given that most photographers were using large format plates I doubt 'grain' would have been an issue. Nor indeed would focus – a least for a static subject like this. By the turn of the century optical design had reached a high degree of sophistication with only coating and the use of aspherical elements yet to come, plus the use of computers for the number crunching (in the 1840s Petzval had to call on the Austrian army for that job).
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    I sit corrected.
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    I would hope so, if it's needed. There are major bottlenecks in central Manchester too, not to mention the reinstatement of much that was prematurely 'rationalised' in the '70s and '80s. But a rolling programme of electrification is probably the most urgent priority if they're serious about being net zero in 2050, or whenever. Big 'if'?
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    The HS2 station will be at Curzon Street which is nowhere near Moor Street and even further from New Street. My source for this assertion? HS2's own website.
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    It is hard to escape the thought that the vast sums of money being spent on HS2 could be better employed on much needed major upgrades and electrification of the existing network – especially in the north of the country – rather than whisking people at high speed from a field in west London to a car park in east Birmingham. Meanwhile, government imposed austerity ravages the rest of the public realm.
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    How do you convert to monochrome? The default is pretty rubbish but if you do it in photoshop you can vary the tonality quite a lot. You could probably even replicate ortho film. -ish. Richard
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    Back in the '70s I did quite a lot of work with architects which included photographing their models. Sometimes I borrowed a sort of reverse periscope thing which, attached to an SLR, could get right inside the structures. Nowadays it's easier to use a mobile phone... PS: I certainly wouldn't fancy using a 10x8 !
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    Call that a real camera? This is a real camera...
  9. wagonman
    Perhaps a scale replica of Ms Dobson leaning against the railings?
  10. wagonman
    I think that was meant to be LNER Apple Green. I was taken to the York Railway Museum in c1954 though I trust you'll forgive me for not being able to remember the exact shade of green used on the NER locos there. As nobody else will remember either, I suggest you don't beat yourself up about it – just as long as you don't use Brunswick Green! Richard
  11. wagonman
    I think that's more Invisible Green...
  12. wagonman
    Oh dear, betraying our age again, I fear...
  13. wagonman
    In 1851 the Crystal Palace was still in Hyde Park so any GWR trains run in connection with it would have gone from Paddington, presumably.
  14. wagonman
    With an erection like that, no wonder Alma was so keen...
  15. wagonman
    While I totally agree with Stephen's assertion that some wagon builders pre-empted the rule change, others did not. Dunkerton Coal Factors had a batch of 12-ton wagons supplied by Chas Roberts in 1911 which definitely only had one set of brakes, in which state they lasted until well into the 1920s apparently.
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    I am both a Trustee and a committee member (formerly chairman, now just a supernumerary) of our local village hall charity, so yes you can be both.
  17. wagonman
    Ian, you may be pleased to know that the next issue of Pannier should be going to printers next week, once Editor Paul Denton has signed it off.
  18. wagonman
    I think the crane still in place at Dundas Wharf is also a product of Stothert & Pitt. I have a photo ... somewhere. Richard
  19. wagonman
    "Remember Magna Carta. Did she die in vain?" The weasel word is 'eligible' when anything less than universal adult suffrage is in force – ie pre-1928, as Stephen noted – it is a very threadbare democracy. But then I'm a weirdo for believing that government should be for the many, not the few.
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    "300 years of British Parliamentary democracy"? That's a bit of a stretch. More like 35 years – from 1945 to 1980...
  21. wagonman
    K-E-Y-N-S-H-A-M for those of you old enough to have listened to Radio Luxembourg...
  22. wagonman
    The Cwmtowy Mineral Railway, which for some unaccountable reason was never built, would have increased the potential trade for the real local coal merchants in Llandovery. I have therefore granted one of them possession of a secondhand coal wagon (aren't I kind). The merchant in question was Mary Jones, the figure on the right in the photo.
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    Actually it says "Buxton" but never mind, eh? Should've gone to Specsavers... 😀
  24. wagonman
    There was quite a lot of rabbit traffic generated on the exGER lines – mainly from Thetford Forest. I believe it all went to London first.
  25. wagonman
    Thanks Simon, that's good to know. Richard
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