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  1. Wickham Green
    ..... or Brasso !
  2. Wickham Green
    Indeed - a fascinating book ............ though coverage of the AM10 / 312 classes is oddly sparse. ( The N.I.R. '80' class gets more column inches.)
  3. Wickham Green
    Still stupid driving, he should have been driving to the conditions.
  4. Wickham Green
    Maybe that's where the LNER design came from ? - though it wasn't adopted as standard ( largely replacing the RCH split box ) 'til many years after grouping.
  5. Wickham Green
    You're still stuck with the Triang 8' + 8'6'' ( approx ) wheelbase !
  6. Wickham Green
    An even quicker method - though the profile's not exactly unaffected :
  7. Wickham Green
    Sounds like someone might have been using superglue in these ??!?
  8. Wickham Green
    On the Southern, end filler pipes first appeared on Bulleid's coaches and were retro-fitted to Maunsells and Pullmans from the late forties. It COULD be that your external type fillers were, similarly, retro-fits of coaches which started out with top-fill only ? [ OVSB would have been involved with Gresley's coaches of course - but I'm not trying to imply any significance with the filler pipes.]
  9. Wickham Green
    I think we have a confusion over the word 'FRAME' here - yes, the chassis was steel but the body frame - on virtually everything prior to the Mk1s was timber - whether steel or teak panelled on the outside..
  10. Wickham Green
    Don't forget the Swsindon prototype FK had a rather different body profile.
  11. Wickham Green
    They're standard LNER axleboxes - far newer than the wagon or spring-buffer conversion !
  12. Wickham Green
    At least that shelter can't be confused for the wrong train - but it does remind one of another Stephens railway ..... the old dear might have been looking for a WC&P !
  13. Wickham Green
    Do you mean that bit's two rail - like my train set ?
  14. Wickham Green
    .... but at least the 'H' class had power reversers !
  15. Wickham Green
    I was thinking Feltham too ........ judging by the similar rust on the Five's piston rod and wheels it's a) been there a while and b) could have arrived under its own steam.
  16. Wickham Green
    Was it something to do with the 'standard' cab layout rather than Ivatt's interpretation/redesign of whatever the LMS layout would have been ? ........ I don't think any of our preserved railways has both Ivatt and Standard twos so we probably can't ask current day crews of their opinions.
  17. Wickham Green
    I think sheep singular - rather than the whole flock !
  18. Wickham Green
    Clearly they didn't reallise how large the market for larger beers would become - largely because of heavy promotion by the larger brewery combines in the sixties.
  19. Wickham Green
    Certainly not unique - there were three of it ! ..... what's probably unique is the design of the rear windows to allow a good view of the ( human ) shunter in action. Odd that No.2 seems to have gone for scrap in the company of a Charlie ( not surprising ) and a Black Five ! Must be time Judith Edge ran out of other ideas and got round to a kit of this design !!?!
  20. Wickham Green
    Far fewer corrugated ends than on the LMS - but the LNER did have significant numbers.
  21. Wickham Green
    Ah ..... I was wondering what ( else ) S E C stood for ...
  22. Wickham Green
    ....... except that most wagons - meat vans in particular - would only spend half their lives carrying a load .......... and the other half returning for one.
  23. Wickham Green
    Beige, and later silver or grey, signified 'class A' liquids i.e. petrol etc. .......... heavier fuels were 'class B' and carried in black tanks. Non-hazardous liquids could be carried in any ( other ) colour tank. Beige for 'class A' was superseded by grey during WW2 then by silver afterwards - though more recently ( 1970s ? ) this has changed to a pale grey.
  24. Wickham Green
    No, I don't 'do' bling ....................... beauty is more than ( paint ) skin deep when it comes to the 'D' class - I've ordered one in black with just a hint of sunshine.
  25. Wickham Green
    As a fully paid-up member of the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Society ( SECSoc ) I object to the 'D' class - 737 in particular - not being considered a celebrity.
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