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Ah well, perhaps the end result will be a gain in ecological value.

The RCH Handbook of Stations had letter codes for the facilities that were available, and hence the traffic that could be handled, at each station. If the entry for your station includes the letters F and C, then it had such an end-loading ramp or bay. F = Furniture Vans, Carriages, Portable Engines, and Machines on Wheels - i.e. the sorts of things that would be loaded on a traction wagon or lowmac, etc. C = Carriages by Passenger Train - i.e. loaded on an open or closed carriage truck. It's unusual to have one without the other - the exceptions being stations that had either no goods facilities or no passenger facilities. In the 1904 edition of the Handbook (David & Charles reprint, 1970), Princetown has the full gamut of facilities: G P F L H C. The meaning of the four letters G P L and H should be self-evident...

A garment that reveals more than it conceals. (A Freudian comment in itself.) A poster with a sense of humour. If you read back you will see that this is Annie's standard terminology for the post-nationalisation period.

Well, isn't the answer in the name? It's about reinstating the ecology and habitat of the area.

But at Abbots Ripton (on my reading of the report) there were a number of other factors at work, including the method of working by which signals were left at clear rather than normally at danger, the use of slotted posts, in which the signal arm could get stuck, and also the effect of the weight of snow and ice on the signal wires. It seems improbable that a lower quadrant arm standing normally at danger and counterbalanced by the balance weight would gain sufficient additional mass of snow to force it down.

@JZ These cats need to remember that we humans have the power of the snip. Next door's cat, Ziggy, a big ginger fellow, has an incongruously high-pitched miaow. We think he must have been snipped a little too soon - a cat castrato.

A short Wedding Anniversary holiday in Derbyshire was, for a holiday in the heart of Midland territory, remarkably railway-free: the main objects being Hardwick Hall and Bolsover Castle. We were staying in Middleton, so there was a late afternoon stroll (in LNWR territory) down and up the incline and then along through Hopton Tunnel and back. The Midland D663A wagon posed at Middleton Top is in a rather decrepit condition: ... which draws attention to the recycling of D299 corner plates. (The less said about the black buffer guides and solebar ironwork the better.) On our return, there was a small parcel from Mousa Models awaiting my attention. Here's the D204 Loco coal wagon - once again illustrating the trickiness of photographing unpainted resin:

Is not the convention simply that down is increasing milepost mileage and up decreasing milepost mileage? One goes up to the zeroth milepost. For the WNR, I imagine that ought to be CA as the fons et origo of the whole conception.

That, I believe, is a protected term under the legislation - i.e. it can still be used with impunity as a derogatory term.

Are trains approaching CA travelling in the up or the down direction (and is it the same on both routes)? Is CA the zero of the milepost mileage?

Do we take it that all arrivals and departures must be at the platform road? Which way is up?

I'm reminded of those Polish friends of mine who say that they were taught Russian in school, but did not learn it. I don't speak LNER myself but know enough to translate where necessary. But this all begs the question, what were WNR structure colours? Presumably the more-or-less ubiquitous two shades of brown? And did the WNR S&T Dept use them or have its own preferences? Or was the signalling contractor also responsible for maintenance?

Spoons?

By no means. LQ was well nigh universal up until well into the grouping period. The perception of GW exceptionalism in this respect is a classic example of looking back through a BR steam lens - always bound to fog the picture. Hope you are both on the mend.

Splendid. I've had one sitting in the to do pile since it came out - a bit intimidated by rolling the plates, but I've now got a set of rolling bars... Not so long ago @Jol Wilkinson commented over on the Small Suppliers subforum that he'd not seen any of these built on RMWeb, which made me feel doubly guilty!

Driving into Derby last Saturday, from Ashby by way of the Swarkestone Bridge, I was perturbed by this rather disturbing sign: [Embedded link to Wikimedia Commons.] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allenton_hippopotamus.

Don't push, pull: [Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of MRSC 69343.] Not that there's that much wrong with pushing: [Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of MRSC 61647.] Though most of the photos of singles double-heading show them working in pairs, which makes one pine for a Johnson Atlantic... [Embedded link to catalogue thumbnail of MRSC 66714.]

Steam?

Due to the lights and the works being the responsibility of different contractors?

That was in the days when schools could afford class sets of textbooks. Handouts are a false economy - the economics of poverty, locked into spending more because one doesn't have the capital to afford that which would save money in the long run.

One thousand pages and this is the level we're at?

Intended.

Oh dear.

Looks suspiciously like a scene from James Cameron's Titanic?

Far from it. Yellow Submarine was the first piece of popular music of which I was really aware, though it was not until quite a few years later that I learned that it was by the Beatles. I wasn't two when it came out.