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  1. Wickham Green
    Have they still got early-type superheating though ?
  2. Wickham Green
    Well ...... IF a rail bridge/tunnel DID ever materialise, Irish Rail are ready to inter-operate with Europe as they've already adorned everything with UIC numbering ! ( We Brits aren't quite there yet ! )
  3. Wickham Green
    My usual tool is old business cards rather than Plastikard ............... but I don't see how it's possible to get anything into the gap with that continuous footboard blocking the angle of attack !
  4. Wickham Green
    Uneven loading was inevitable with Kitchen Cars - more so than other side-corridor stock ........ the Southern resorted to lead weights on the opposite solebar ( as nicely depicted by Hornby ) - I don't know what other Railways used.
  5. Wickham Green
    Somewhere back on page twenty-something of this thread someone asked how to get into these coaches - and somewhere on page thirty-something someone proved that they'd managed to gain entry and install lighting ............................ bur I still can't figure out how to split the body from the chassis without applying more knife blades and brute force than I'm prepared to experiment with ! -------- HEEEEELP !
  6. Wickham Green
    Tan.
  7. Wickham Green
    Probably depends how pre you mean by pre tops ......... all beams ( and rods ) would have beams red originally ( on black or green locos ) but yellow would have appeared - if the painter had time to waste - once yellow ends became the norm and yellow paint became more readily available.
  8. Wickham Green
    Shame it didn't hang about out of sight at Craven Arms and get rescued with assorted Control Train coaches ............
  9. Wickham Green
    I'd guess there's something in LMS Loco Profiles No. 6 Mixed Traffic Class 5s Nos. 5225-5499 & 4658-4999 - David Hunt et al [Publisher: Wild Swan 2004]
  10. Wickham Green
    Buttevant ! .......... that was 1980 but IR had started buying MkIIs in 1972.
  11. Wickham Green
    Locking carriages out of use will soon be a thing of the past with all these wide-gangway thingies coming on steam ................ one misjudged breakfast and up to twelve coaches'll have to be taken out of traffic ! ( Maybe Southwestern are already working on that basis.)
  12. Wickham Green
    to be sure - to be sure ................
  13. Wickham Green
    David Geen - though currently out of production.
  14. Wickham Green
    Crikey - the bobby obviously needed good hearing as well as eyesight !
  15. Wickham Green
    Contemporary Railway Observer might give an idea of shopping dates ........... and the Engine Record Cards might still exist at the P.R.O. National Archive or York ?
  16. Wickham Green
    Only one problem .......... however many times I look at that photo, I still can't figure out where the "British Railways Diesel Locomotive Class Class 22 D6329" is hiding !
  17. Wickham Green
    ......... and what American layout doesn't feature the 'straight out of a tunnel onto a trestle' cliché ??!? At least it's better than a painted backscene of four buffer stop - the wrong way round ! Sligo Station ( building on the left ) May 2013 .
  18. Wickham Green
    If you've ever walked over Dungeness shingle in-situ you'll wonder how anyone in their right mind ever put the stuff under railway tracks.
  19. Wickham Green
    Don't think those are likely to improve the quality of the food !!?!
  20. Wickham Green
    Hmmmmmm ........ wasn't aware he had a hand in the '27 Tube Stock !
  21. Wickham Green
    My pedant friend says the guy was Richard ( Edward Lloyd ) Maunsell ! The Metropolitan 2-6-4 Tanks were virtually identical to the Rivers but were only goods locos so didn't run a the sort of speed where surging would be an issue : the Brighton Ls, though WERE found to be unstable ( BEFORE the days of he Rivers ) and had to have major modifications to their waterworks in order to lower the centre of gravity.
  22. Wickham Green
    ........ and it might have needed to be a significant overhaul to get a full repaint.
  23. Wickham Green
    Until the Networkers came along my commuting - if the word had been invented in those days - was in EPB stock and a twenty second station stop was quite normal ........... nowadays you'll not even get the doors released in that time !
  24. Wickham Green
    Yes, the narrower top corner suggests a Diagram 1775 ( Cambrian C67 ).
  25. Wickham Green
    Similarly, the Great Western painted oil-lubricated axleboxes blue ( on carriages at least ) when they were changing over from grease - long before rollers came into use !
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