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  1. TJ52
    Well, the photo is credited to the Brighton Toy and Train Museum - doesn't explain why a 'toy' train is posed on a finescale layout though!
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    No, I was fatter than that! Terry
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    There were various AA batteries around the Sutton/Cheam/Carshalton/Mitcham area during the war and at at least one gun that travelled on the Wimbledon-Sutton line at night if I understand it properly. By Mitcham Junction station there was an AA battery of (I think) six guns. As a youngster in the 1960s we used to play in the concrete gun emplacements and watch the trains. Terry
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    To be fair, on their website they say they can produce any of their SR etches for 2mm - sounds like an idea! Terry
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    Mike, Good news - I have the book in front of me. I'll start to scan the relevant pages, let me have your email address and I'll send them to you. Terry
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    Mike, I'll pop out to the library in a few minutes. If it's out then I'll reserve it, it was there last week (and most weeks). Terry
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    Sorry, I thought they were the sets you mentioned. Well, I can get the book out and scan the ones you want if you wish. Terry
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    Hi Mike, My local library has the Mike King book. If this is 'gate stock' then I have already scanned the relevant pages for a fellow Gauge 0 Guild member in Hong Kong. I'm happy to email them to you if you wish. Terry
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    As it's a Western region layout why not check out Uxbridge Vine St for some ideas?
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    In An Historical Survey of Selected Southern Stations there are a couple of signalling diagrams and a detailed survey from 1942. The text suggests that goods traffic was never of much importance and was largely coal, though there is a loading dock at the end of one siding that could have handled livestock etc. Terry
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    Plumpton only lost its gates in the last few months. There was a row over replacing them, the crossing was closed and the village cut in two for several weeks. Terry
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    Pete, as the first barrier crossings were introduced in the 1960s there is no reason for you to use gates. I clearly remember using West Barnes Lane crossing near Raynes Park in the 1970s and it was a barrier crossing with flashing lights. Terry
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    They ran every hour on Sundays Pete - perhaps that's when you saw them!
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    Hi Pete. I grew up in Carshalton and I've always been fascinated by the Wimbledon-West Croydon line and the Merton loop lines. When I was young my friend and I used to cycle to Mitcham Junction where we could play on the site of WW2 anti aircraft gun emplacements. It was an ideal place to watch trains and we always liked to see the single line token being handed over. Unlike you I've kept my Middleton Press books and still have the occasional flick through them.
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    The footbridge at Silverton is not the same as the one in my book, so it's a recent addition. I've had another look at my book and there is a suspiciously Southern type footbridge at Ockenden too (Sept 1958) so it does seem as if BR looked at the stuff coming out of Eastleigh or Exeter or wherever and decided that it was cost effective. Just shows that the Southern was ahead of the game!
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    Hi Pete. I too am most comfortable with all things south of the river. However, one of the many railway books on my shelves is 'Railways in and around London Then and Now' by John Glover. In that there is a photo of Silvertown station in March 1977 with a concrete footbridge, Grays in November 1980 and Pitsea in May 1980. They all look very much like the Southern ones to my untutored eye. Cheers, Terry
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    For 7mm LSWR signals a search on the Gauge 0 Guild website shows parts from Roxey, MSE and Lasercaft Devon.
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