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  1. Wickham Green
    ........ and - one thing I'd not spotted before - the solebars should be body colour on the LSWR & SR vans ( like virtually all wagons else before nationalisation ) .... let's hope Hornby can get them in Bourneville brown too !
  2. Wickham Green
    I spy two odd beasts and a Cauliflower .............. I guess you're referring to the LMS railcar : a closer relative to the BR first generation type than the oft-quoted - and far more numerous - GWR type. It was a one off and didn't have very long in traffic - ended up* as a departmental unit of some sort. * literally - the end cars only
  3. Wickham Green
    Now we may have to delve into the realms of "Is it still a Thumper when it's clearly without its thumpy bit ?" .......
  4. Wickham Green
    Presumably Boris - that's the other Boris - is busy writing a fudge that'll replace the TSI once he takes out of the EU at the end of the month .............. when he's not too busy sunning himself in the Caribbean.
  5. Wickham Green
    There's a separate thread for bashing bridges ........... I know, it was pointed out when I put one on here !
  6. Wickham Green
    Ah - yes - as recorded in that famous poem by William McGonagall ..........
  7. Wickham Green
    Have you looked through Gould's SECR bogie carriages book ? It lists many re-purposed vehicles with their Departmental numbers though I'm not sure whether you could actually pin one down to the Guildford Breakdown Train. Otherwise, there are odd pictures of Departmentals in many of Dave Larkin's books or, perhaps Mike King's 'In Colour' series.
  8. Wickham Green
    Well, in the lower half of the tank anyway ........ and I'm not aware of any that have such a fitting on the tank top : the steam would be at such a low pressure that it wouldn't be necessary .............. unless the product expanded greatly p'raps ?
  9. Wickham Green
    Unless the plastic's ridiculously thick there should be adequate clearance for 'closer to scale' wheelsets under a 'D' - the 'finecast' kit is OK after all ............. IF, though Rails decide to do a 'D1', at some time in the future, they could run into splasher problems.
  10. Wickham Green
    Sorry, I was thinking WEST of Basingstoke where there are similar sidings on the up side - though the cutting's nowhere near as deep.
  11. Wickham Green
    Steam coils would be a necessity for malt extract - like any other tank carrying tar-like stuff !
  12. Wickham Green
    How many buses, coaches or - as mentioned - taxis have fully wheelchair-accessible bogs ??!? ..... and another question : when - as is so often the case round here - a train ( presumably otherwise compliant ) has "no accessible toilets" will the Minister insist that it doesn't run at all !
  13. Wickham Green
    The same spot last October - from a not dissimilar angle. The pile of bricks beyond No.83 will be the remains of the box which has been recreated by the preservationists on its original foundations. There is still a short length of track beyond the former flat crossing but the crossing itself has been taken out : plain line's better for passengers in four-wheelers, I guess !.
  14. Wickham Green
    Don't forget this is the SOUTHERN where lamp codes don't mean what lamp codes mean elsewhere ! ........ though the crew may have forgotten to change it at Blazingsmoke, of course ?
  15. Wickham Green
    You try addressing that chap Trump as 'Oi Mush' - an' see what happens ................................
  16. Wickham Green
    They're still shown as expected in 2019 ..................
  17. Wickham Green
    A number of the original flat-bunker Hs received flares* in BR days and can be identified by the lack of a beading strip at the base of the flare - this beading has been added to 263 in preservation. * possibly off scrapped brethren
  18. Wickham Green
    Length over buffers will always be about 3' more than headstocks for an unfitted vehicle .........
  19. Wickham Green
    ................. I think you'd end up with a Llama !
  20. Wickham Green
    Various railways used more economical three-link couplings on the front of their passenger locomotives as they weren't expected to be used in normal traffic ! ..... the tender will have a screw coupling for attaching to passenger stock.
  21. Wickham Green
    Wouldn't that need a 'Class A' tank !!?!
  22. Wickham Green
    The Mk 1 Pullmans were never allocated to the Southern - and few of the 'all-steel' cars before them - so this must have been a special of some sort.
  23. Wickham Green
    The choice of that vehicle to pose as a Russian carriage - and also Swedish, I think - was because of its large drop windows that actors could lean out of. ( I believe George Formby used such a facility in one of his films - probably not the same coach though ! ) The LMSCA would probably be a little foolish completing a fully lined finish before they re-position the doors that were moved in departmental days : some of the original compartment partitions were moved too, but they're long gone now !
  24. Wickham Green
    Not if the train's fully fitted .... the leading two wagons have axleguard tiebars so they, at least are vac-fitted - the third one may have an eight-shoe arrangement.
  25. Wickham Green
    Nicknamed 'Zebedee' - for obvious reasons ...................................................... boing !
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