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Between the periscopes and the Guard's door in the upper photo?

Oh dear. Not doing very well, am I? Old age, I guess...

Most of the Tamar was only served by the LSWR/SR; where there was an overlap with the GWR this was mostly restricted to the dockyard area with both lines on the west bank. In south Wales there was an example of a GW line one side of the river and a GW/Rhymney joint line on the other, plus others where the other company was the Taff Vale or the LNWR, but on the whole most of the duplication only came as a result of the grouping.

14 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

But pictures of a shiny new HM Navy Dockyard with lots of space for bigger and better boats did the trick

Dartmouth was a fairly important port in the mediaeval to early Tudor period, hence Dartmouth and Kingswear Castles, and saw commercial use as late as the 1970s. However, there were very practical reasons why Drake waited for the Armada in Plymouth, and the Napoleonic era fleets never waited out bad weather west of Torbay, and which lead to the RN dockyard being established on the Tamar, not the Dart. The advent of steam ships changed the reasons, but not the outcome. The Dart was used to lay up medium size merchant ships in small numbers in the 1960s and 1970s, but there was limited deep water, and not very deep at that.

The Royal Naval College was built on its current site in 1905, incidentally. Before that it was two wooden hulks moored slightly lower down the river - the former HMS Britannia and Hindostan.

16 hours ago, Miss Prism said:

Sorry, I missed that. Where is it?

Sorry, I should have been clearer. There are previous - LHS - and next - RHS - entry buttons below the picture, click the LH button below each picture until the heading above the picture ends in "-2".

You may wish to look at -2, where there is a photo of the wagon inverted. It has four "V"s, so traders' brake/either side brake/independent brake [whichever you prefer], which would not have had a Morton lever in the kit. Also, the brake levers are between the "V"s, which I hadn't realised before, which may have misled you.

If you drop the brake lever, the brake shoes will move away from the wheels, as the mouldings, sadly, are the wrong way round. Probably most people won't notice, or comment if they do...