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  1. Wickham Green
    Looking again at the photo, I'm pretty certain the nearer Walrus has plate frame bogies but the second one's not so clear and it might be a Southern Railway vehicle : a little bit of variety and also available from Cambrian.
  2. Wickham Green
    Ironically, the Southern were putting new all-steel electric unit bodies onto second-hand frames with only a single buffer and three-link coupling at this period ................... an error that was pointed out at Blackfriars.
  3. Wickham Green
    They lost the screwdriver for the bogie screw so had to buy a new one.
  4. Wickham Green
    The majority of Morton brake installations - on unfitted vehicles - actually only had brake blocks on one side.
  5. Wickham Green
    Indeed - there was no such thing as a standard 8' LMS bogie ................. plenty of pre-group coaches had 8' bogies but it's highly unlikely pairs of those would have found their way under the Kitchen Cars.
  6. Wickham Green
    Indeed ........... and that's certainly NOT what Victor saw ................................... if the 'auto-trailer' was being hauled and the loco was grey, might this have been something to do with Wytch Farm ?
  7. Wickham Green
    Wouldn't have needed an overloaded spoil train to smash those sleepers by the look of it !
  8. Wickham Green
    Looking on the bright side, it IS only 324 days* to Christmas ! * nearly put 'shopping days' - but they all are nowadays .....
  9. Wickham Green
    At that time, of course, virtually every passenger working through Wareham would have been operated in Pull & Push mode - one or two TC sets with a 33/1.
  10. Wickham Green
    The advantage of Gresley coaches ( & Maunsell/Bulleid ) over Stanier vehicles ( & GWR ) was the use of buckeye couplings and Pullman gangways which prevented over-riding in the event of a smash. Until the advent of the BR Mk1 ( much lambastred after Clapham, of course ) only a handful of coaches in Britain had steel framed bodies - mainly electric stock.
  11. Wickham Green
    There were probably still a few wooden p-way trolleys in use even later than that !
  12. Wickham Green
    Most timber-framed wagons were getting elderly by nationalisation though the LNER were still building such vehicles - including for the LMS - during the war and there was even one batch of LNER-style hoppers built in early BR days ......... so there would have been a number of such wagons still running post 1960.
  13. Wickham Green
    Yes, there's certainly not a lot of 'up hill' between Waterloo and Clapham Junction - in either direction !
  14. Wickham Green
    Agreed, it's not exactly as war grave - but a grave it is ( We were, technically, still at war but .... ). What would you do with the battered old loco anyway ? ..... add it to the queue of unrestored 'it'll never run again' rusting relics at the Xxxxxx* Railway p'raps ? ....................................... Furness No.115 would probably be a more worthwhile candidate for exhumation - though there'll be rather less of it left after all these years. * We can all name a few candidates to fill in that blank.
  15. Wickham Green
    Knowing what little I do about Collet coaches, they might have had a variety of 7' & 9' bogies too.
  16. Wickham Green
    Not impossible that one or three elderly vans had steel duckets fitted in LNER days so Rule 1 might be valid ......... it's unlikely anyone can prove it never happened !
  17. Wickham Green
    Yes, the 'humble' 0-4-4T wasn't just a branch line loco - think of the M7s hauling twelve or more between Waterloo & Clapham Junction ....
  18. Wickham Green
    I don't think the brake van has got end platforms - so probably an LMS/BR style 'Shark' ........ or perhaps an LSWR 'New Van' ?
  19. Wickham Green
    Indeed - many single-wagon owners didn't want to admit they'd only got one so numbered it other than "1" ............ or they might have owned a succession and numbered each one higher than its predecessor .......
  20. Wickham Green
    The near evenly-spaced ventilators and apparently equally sized windows suggests to me that could be a Third masquerading as a Compo !!?! That 'extra' panel a t the left hand end looks rather odd !
  21. Wickham Green
    ..... and, of course, many of the smaller 'owners' only had one wagon so multiple sales of ready-to-run ( or decorated kit ) wagons can distort even Rule 1 history !
  22. Wickham Green
    It was vandalised before it was erected ............................... someone nicked the mallard.
  23. Wickham Green
    So long as it's not in the 'heating season' ................... hopefully !
  24. Wickham Green
    It / He / She / whatever wasn't withdrawn 'ti 1st Feb '66 so would certainly have retained green 'til that date.
  25. Wickham Green
    OK - that's only a VERY glorified Push-Pull then. .... and, of course, the REP/TC combo was a bit of each !
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