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  1. Wickham Green
    Check with Phoenix ( sales@srg.org.uk ) ...... Chris'll let you know whether the tooling's still OK or worn out !
  2. Wickham Green
    ..... not to be confused with Pendolino - though that's only a glorified Push-Pull in reality !
  3. Wickham Green
    Maybe the thread should be re-captioned as "Livery for pannier tanks CARRIED BY 8783 in British Railways days" ??!?
  4. Wickham Green
    I don't think that would take the weight of a full size train ........ not even a Pacer !
  5. Wickham Green
    D'you reckon £500,000,000 will be enough to determine whether the Fleetwood line should be heavy rail or tramway extension ?
  6. Wickham Green
    ........... not to mention, a Buckjumper to follow on from the N7 ..............................
  7. Wickham Green
    My comment wasn't directed at these ( GER ) vans which, obviously, haven't appeared yet. Hopefully Oxford have taken heed of adverse comments made about their earlier products and will be designed by someone who understands wagons : I've not been following their more recent - more modern - wagons so cannot comment on Oxford's current quality.
  8. Wickham Green
    Any paint wouldn't have lasted five minutes in traffic ..... but coke wouldn't have left any staining so the wood would have started out ..... er ..... wood coloured - fading to a pale silvery grey over time.
  9. Wickham Green
    I don't suppose there's much doubt about that .............. you wouldn't expect the Southern to spend real money on a new bunker, would you ??!?
  10. Wickham Green
    As I say I HAVE fixed those totally unnecessary errors - so they were VERY RELEVANT to me ! .................... but I shouldn't have had to rectify something that the manufacturer could have got right in the first place.
  11. Wickham Green
    Yes, I consider that I AM a serious modeller and I HAVE fixed the errors on my GWR brake van and on the LNER opens and on the NBR mineral and I'll get round to finishing the LNER cattle one day ....................... but I have an awful lot of other projects that would have benefited from me spending that time on.
  12. Wickham Green
    Some of the silly mistakes Oxford have made on their wagon models - I have no experience of any others - would have cost nothing more to produce correctly - and some would probably have been cheaper ( planked door instead of a spurious window and omission of unnecessary lamp irons on the brakevans ) .................... if Oxford are really aiming at the TOY market, why do they bother producing anything even remotely more realistic than troublesome trucks ?
  13. Wickham Green
    If we're allowed motorway over rail, there's always the M1 in Leeds where it crosses the Middleton Railway that the planners THOUGHT was closed. 'You'll have to close, then, as we're not building a bridge now we've worked out all the levels' said the planners - 'We'll compromise with a level crossing, then' said the Middleton ........................... and the rest, as they say, is history.
  14. Wickham Green
    Yes, I was, indeed, referring to a 'Brighton' 'D1' 0-4-2T ........ but if any manufacturer contemplates a 'Chatham' 'D1' 4-4-0 ( maybe as a follow-up to their 'D' - HINT, HINT ! ) I'd be interested too [ but not before I finish the 'Golden Arrow' scratch-aid I'm struggling with, please ] ....................................................... now, as for the 'L' - that's another handsome 'Chatham' 4-4-0 ............................... ! ......................................
  15. Wickham Green
    But they are significantly reducing the likelihood that any other manufacturer is going to produce the same vehicle, without silly mistakes, at any time in the foreseeable future.
  16. Wickham Green
    Depends which stage of the debacle you're referring to ! ................... DJ wasn't involved for very long after the announcement - details way back on the thread ....... somewhere ..............
  17. Wickham Green
    Black solebars only appeared on the LMS during the war - and only on new-builds from Wolverton. Prior to the BR liveries, black solebars were rarely seen, otherwise, on anything but LNER steel-framed wagons ( this may have started with one of the LNER's predecessors - but steel/iron frames were less common back in them days ).
  18. Wickham Green
    Depends on your definition of 'significant idea' ........ It was in the back of peoples minds from ( or before ) the moment two compatible railways met ! ( Grand Junction etc. ? )
  19. Wickham Green
    I think Pull-Push Terriers were confined to the Isle of Widget by that time ........ as ever, Bradley will advise. Maybe this is an opportunity to remind the Trade that a 'D1' would be useful ..................................
  20. Wickham Green
    No one'll ever prove that it didn't happen !
  21. Wickham Green
    Always the case .......... though non-passenger moves were generally at lower speed so the staff were in less danger if things went wrong.
  22. Wickham Green
    NR could, of course, get confused with Northern Rail in some circumstances ............. so how are THEY going to re-brand their documentation when young Mr Shaps pulls the plug ?
  23. Wickham Green
    Sorry, got that the wrong way round - I knew it was something to do with tender wheelbase. Yes the length of run on the LSWR would have justified water troughs - but I believe they couldn't find suitable level stretches of track at the right sort of intervals ! ( No problem when you build your railway on a billiard table, of course ! )
  24. Wickham Green
    Diagonal strapping appeared on the outside many WR & LMR brakevans in later years to prevent stop 'racking' of the woodwork .... I wonder if your drawing actually shows such strapping on the INside of the planking and not visible in photos ( other than - perhaps - a line of countersunk bolts ) ? ........................................ GAs can be very confusing - and sometimes downright wrong !
  25. Wickham Green
    Yes - but they selected short-wheelbase six wheel tenders rather than the long-wheelbase ones with the same capacity.
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