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  1. wagonman
    Then the second correspondent was also wrong. Something is either pedantic or it isn't – regardless of the number of instances. One would have expected better from a reader of the Times! Telegraph yes, but not the Thunderer... Errm. We do seem to be straying into linguistic pedantry rather than the specifically rail-based variety...
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    iPhones etc remember which way up they were when a photo was taken – and display accordingly. Try holding the phone the other way up next time...
  3. wagonman
    When I lived in Wales, many years ago but Welsh is a very old language, it was impressed on me that a single 'F' was pronounced like a 'V' whereas a double 'Ff' was the normal soft 'F' sound. So yes, Vestiniog it would have been. technically. Could Vyrnwy once have been spelled with an 'F'? Your late neighbours have a point: why would Welsh use a 'V' when they already had the same sound using the 'F'?
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    Nigel Digby did something in one of the magazines some years back... Sorry, can't be any more precise.
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    My problem is the location. I've searched in vain for a station that could accommodate an M&GN C class and a loco coal wagon – so likely to be on the M&GN system rather than somewhere 'foreign' – and has an enormous granary/maltings as a backdrop. Not Yarmouth Beach, not Cromer, not Norwich, certainly not Melton...
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    You must have gone to different Scaleforums to the ones I've attended; a few 'works in progress' yes, but generally the running was good. But you're right to say that P4 demands rather more care and attention.
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    OK, so the solution is simple: rip out the toilets in the 153s and use the space for bicycles. Potentially incontinent passengers could be given suitable wide-necked bottles and a small screened off area in which to use them. Meanwhile, I'll continue to travel by car... ;-)
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    Mine will be in Scale7 hence the need for a new chassis. For 0F the printed chassis may suffice.
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    I don't know the particular circumstances at Wareham, but in most places businesses, public buildings etc are being encouraged/obliged to install ramps precisely FOR disabled access. Why would they "struggle up the ramps"? Just asking.
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    Something really rather tiny. My print arrived from Shapeways a couple of days ago but I've not had time to photograph it yet. It will need the chimney drilling out, new or modified buffers, and a new (scratchbuilt) chassis...
  11. wagonman
    Don't put too much trust in hand-coloured images. I have a hand coloured commercial postcard of the High Street in Cley, which happens to include my home; it is depicted as red brick like several of its neighbours but is in fact built of 'white' gault brick. On a different tack, many horse-drawn carts were painted dark blue with red wheels. There is a sample (Midland, I think) at the NRM. I doubt this applied to parcels vans though...
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    The Spillers vans, built by Harrison & Camm in 1906/7, had DCI brakes...but a subtly different body.
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    I have a problem with the brake push rods on the GWR versions being the wrong way round. But then I'd probably end up replacing all the underframe stuff anyway as I'd need sprung grease axleboxes for starters, and handed brake shoes, and...
  14. wagonman
    There were, from memory, "improvised gunpowder vans" that were modifies Iron Minks but the proper Cones had square corners so very different.
  15. wagonman
    Powsides do a sheet (#126) which includes one pair of 'Large' letters, also the old L, M and S and everything else you need. £3.90 a sheet.
  16. wagonman
    Are the doors 'flat' or is there a hint of turn-under towards the bottom? Definitely Churchward style elliptical roof though...
  17. wagonman
    If you get around to doing a registration plate for the Jones wagon it's GWR No.50164 of December 1901, and the Glos owners plate is no.37060, at least until 1908. :-)
  18. wagonman
    Austin No.1 is pure Manning Wardle – posthumous of course
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    The batches of wagons hired from Birmingham and allocated to 'Fowey' and 'Par' were clearly intended for the clay traffic and were presumably a stop-gap while the GWR pondered its own design. I presume the 'Kingswear wagons were for the gasworks traffic but I'll have to try and check to see when Renwick Wilton obtained the contract for that traffic. Most of the other wagons hired in that period were explicitly for coal traffic, including 01327 depicted in the drawing by Len Tavender.
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    Portreath harbour, also on the north coast, was important too: coal in and ore out, while it lasted. Built as a branch off the Hayle Railway, later part of the West Cornwall Railway.
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    Granted he was a pioneer and I have cited his work – usually with a caveat where he is the only source.
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    Don't rely too heavily on Peter Matthews – his work has a number of errors...
  23. wagonman
    I have assumed the GWR railmotor wheels would be best given they have an 8 inch crank throw – the MER locos had cylinders with 16 inch stroke. Richard
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    The die is cast! I've ordered one in 7mm scale – in acrylic rather than WTF (or whatever it's called). It'll soon join the growing pile of things to do... Richard
  25. wagonman
    The Gospel according to the RCTS gives August 1930 as date for fitting the Belpaire boiler on 571 and July 1924 for 845. 571 received a closed cab and Collett style bunker but the date isn't recorded – at least not by the RCTS.
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