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  1. Wickham Green
    If we're not careful somebody will bring this thread back to a model railway topic by mentioning Mazak rot !
  2. Wickham Green
    Looks like former mineral wagon that doesn't want to be overloaded with spoil !
  3. Wickham Green
    This is the one you want : https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/triang-oo-gauge-r349-murgatroyds-219757015
  4. Wickham Green
    No problem with today's CGI though !
  5. Wickham Green
    Units were stabled on the up side just outside Marylebone ( blocks of flats now ) .... I photographed Sir Nigel Gresley there once ( the loco - not the bloke ! ).
  6. Wickham Green
    CAUTION : PEDANT MODE - "An alloy is a combination of a metal with at least one other metal or nonmetal." ........ which may well include magnesium !
  7. Wickham Green
    Well, Hornby might have thought so - https://api.maas.museum/object/43911 - and with green underframes too ! ................... though the complete lack of any railway identification - let alone the complete absence of of photographic evidence rather suggests that our Frank was having a 'Rule 1' moment !
  8. Wickham Green
    That'll be goods van B786181 : http://www.ws.rhrp.org.uk/ws/WagonInfo.asp?Ref=13866
  9. Wickham Green
    I remember seeing a number of these for scrap at Barry : certainly some were Southern types and had been ballasted with a couple of feet of concrete inside !
  10. Wickham Green
    Confusion arises from the conversion of 'Class A' tanks to 'Class B' - a lot of them for bitumen traffic - after the war.
  11. Wickham Green
    This suggests that the Lakeside loco is, indeed "Basra" : - ......... and THIS definitely WAS "Basra" in service at Longmoor .... with apologies for the quality !
  12. Wickham Green
    Yes, the Southern 'kit-bashed' bodies from all three principal constituents onto new chassis for their 1920's suburban electrification schemes ......... and when the bodies were eventually deemed life expired they stuck new Bulleid-style bodies on and, as EPB units, many of the chassis ran on into the eighties.
  13. Wickham Green
    ........ but wouldn't have lasted much longer - you could see and HEAR - the body moving every time it stopped or started !
  14. Wickham Green
    I believe the end IS contemporary with 1st generation DMUs.
  15. Wickham Green
    VERY worrying that I photographed a couple of them when they were almost new* - but I STILL haven't travelled on them ! ( Must hurry up ! ) * interestingly, the next couple of photos show "the new “Ark Royal” being fitted out .... Amid the cranes of Swan Hunter’s shipyard" : maybe someone's got a 'Longevity of warships' and/or 'Longevity of shipyards' thread ?
  16. Wickham Green
    The Dutch actually have a far better idea ............................. use bicycles instead of cars.
  17. Wickham Green
    ........ and the LMS twelve wheeler's not exactly up to current standards.
  18. Wickham Green
    Thameslink train ? ...... no, I said geegees not cattle trucks !
  19. Wickham Green
    Couldn't be bothered reading all that twitter - but I guess reinstatement of trains at Lingfield is something to do with the geegees !
  20. Wickham Green
    Hmmmm ..... Rawtenstall's not exactly on the way to Heywood from ANYWHERE !
  21. Wickham Green
    Two for the price of one - they're still working on this slip nearby https://www.networkrail.co.uk/running-the-railway/our-regions/southern/tonbridge-to-redhill-line-closure
  22. Wickham Green
    I wouldn't fancy having to keep that in adjustment !
  23. Wickham Green
    All four 'grouping' railways had switched to 10' wheelbase for their general open and covered goods wagons long before nationalisation so the LMS / early BR throwback to 9' for banana vans seems very odd.
  24. Wickham Green
    I wonder if it was detached from some train with a hot box ............ you'd not expect it to be any where near a coal yard under normal circumstances ( whether in traffic OR going for scrap ).
  25. Wickham Green
    .... or the Great Eastern might have used 'roader' sheds like their South Eastern neighbours ? : https://www.roxeymouldings.co.uk/product/141/4b12-ser/secr/sr/br-roader-shed/
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