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Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR)
wagonman replied to KeithMacdonald's topic in Disused Railways
The exchange of the Read & Son wagon may well have been at Bristol as that would maximise MR mileage! -
Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR)
wagonman replied to KeithMacdonald's topic in Disused Railways
MSWJR no.26 was a one-off – the first of the 'modern' designs built (from memory) by Birmingham RC&W in 1896 presumably copying the LSWR design. Buying gas-lit stock from the MR was a retrograde move for an all-electric line! -
I think something similar applies to all Public Schools though to a lesser degree than at Eton. Even at my own school, suitably venerable though otherwise very much of the second or third rank, we were informed in all seriousness that we were in the top 7% educationally. If so then God help the rest. Floreat Etonas!
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While agreeing that membership of political parties is very much a minority thing – even in the heyday the Tories and Labour only had membership in the low million mark, not a patch on the National Trust – it's worth pointing out that the Labour Party had over 500,000 members when it was led by ... Jeremy Corbyn!
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Rivet press?
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Yorkshire Colliery and Wagon identification
wagonman replied to bigd's topic in UK Prototype Questions
The 'M' obviously stood for 'Midland' as it always did. The numbers taken into BR stock were more than a handful – though obviously a fraction of those originally built some 20-30 years previously. I do not know how BR proposed to handle tarred roadstone traffic in the early '50s as it is well outside my period of research, but given the nature of the cargo it would need a dedicated fleet of wagons if carried by rail, which is why they were non-pool in the first place. I am not aware of any such wagons continuing in service in private ownership, but as I said outside my are of research. Ask David Larkin! -
Yorkshire Colliery and Wagon identification
wagonman replied to bigd's topic in UK Prototype Questions
Not entirely true as the roadstone wagons were taken into BR stock in 1950-1 and numbered in the M36xxxx series. -
According to the 1912 Kelly's Directory the only coal merchant in Lavenham was Gayford & Kendall who, so far as I know, didn't't have any wagons. Likely suppliers, given the location, were J O Vinter of Cambridge or William Booth of Ipswich, plus of course Moy who had a base in Colchester as well as at Peterborough. Alas I don't think POWsides do either Vinter or Booth. Here is an A G Thomas sketch:
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Clearly it no longer is the political wing of the TU movement – that ended with the abolition of the Block Vote, and the disaffiliation of most of the unions. I do worry about the concept of 'electable'. It usually means 'acceptable to the Establishment and unlikely to rock the boat' – Tory Party B Team. That unimpeachably Conservative commentator Peter Oborne has frequently defended Corbyn as a decent man vilely traduced by ... just about everybody. His 'electability' was demonstrated in 2017. The appointment of James Purnell, an exLabour MP, to the BBC Board was recently blocked by the non-execs fearful of the reaction of Johnson's so-called government. Grey has been there since before the present regime so is not strictly relevant.