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Were there ever any 5-way points?
Wickham Green too replied to Peter Kazmierczak's topic in UK Prototype Questions
Little doubt that's what the Listowel one was - though with its curved 'deck' it doubled as a multi-route turnout. ( Would be great on a shunting puzzle layout ! ) -
Does that mean the Rapido model will include parts from, perhaps, Accurascale and Ellis Clark assembled at random ??!? 🙄
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... which would tie in with the hose above the buffer beam.
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Buffer Stops
Wickham Green too replied to Barclay's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Can't think of anything to do with pork pies or dog food that runs on wheels ! -
Ghosts in the Machine.
Wickham Green too replied to TheSignalEngineer's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Not just pre-nationalisation but pre-grouping ! .......... you could even argue pre 1899 ! -
Don't forget that for most of their lives Mk1 coaches ran with only a few glow worms for lighting and they were only switched on after dark or for tunnels - so lighting would not normally have been detectable from outside well into the blue/grey era after fluorescent tubes were fitted and left on all day.
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Class 47s on unfitted coal trains - when did they cease
Wickham Green too replied to 18B's topic in UK Prototype Questions
Too early for Network Rail ......... I think you mean Sarfeast ! 😁 -
RCH 1907 Private Owner Wagons - with added 2024 range.
Wickham Green too replied to rapidoandy's topic in Rapido Trains
Nuts .......... normally fewer to count anyway ! 🤪 -
Buffer Stops
Wickham Green too replied to Barclay's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
There are also additional stiffening plates at the base of the uprights ............. anyway, what suitably reinforced point of contact would take the buffing forces if the Dellner couldn't ? -
Ghosts in the Machine.
Wickham Green too replied to TheSignalEngineer's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Looks about as smart & prosperous as yer average British High Street. ☹️ -
Buffer Stops
Wickham Green too replied to Barclay's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Not quite the same as http://www.lanarkshiremodels.com/lanarkshiremodelsandsupplieswebsite_218.htm but probably of S.R. origin. -
Parcels Trains in the Grouping Era
Wickham Green too replied to Binky's topic in UK Prototype Questions
Parcels vans were not Common User in the way that most wagons were, so the appearance of 'foreign' vehicles would not have been universal .......... there were, though specific traffic flows such as milk, newspapers and mail-order goods which would have seen regular 'cross-border' traffic to some destinations - also seasonal flows such as soft fruit. -
RCH 1907 Private Owner Wagons - with added 2024 range.
Wickham Green too replied to rapidoandy's topic in Rapido Trains
Exactly the same as with the 'standard' arrangement of end door retaining pins ...... and for the side doors where a - not dissimilar - sliding catch is more common. -
The ribbed one will be the vacuum pipe and will go to the left of the screw coupling - the plain pipe will be the steam heat connection and will go to the right.
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Another land slip
Wickham Green too replied to ess1uk's topic in UK Prototype Discussions (not questions!)
Should that be in the Grange -over-Mud thread rather than the Landslip one ? ☹️ -
Presumably not enough for it to have troubled the railway companies ........................................................ they may not have been over concerned about the welfare of their servants - but a Scotch Express stuck at Ais Gill - or wherever - without a driver would have been problematic.
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Class 47s on unfitted coal trains - when did they cease
Wickham Green too replied to 18B's topic in UK Prototype Questions
Moreover, the use of 47s was far from universal : - Bedlay Colliery exchange sidings ; 18/4/80 : unfitted 16T with class 20 Bedlay Colliery exchange sidings ; 18/9/81 : MDV wagons have taken over -
Okay, what's an OK axlebox ?
Wickham Green too replied to Wickham Green too's topic in UK Prototype Questions
OK, the expression was used in the USA long before oil boxes ..... but when did it come into common parlance this side of the pond ? ( Unless it was actually an American product there would be no point in branding it thus until we Brits understood the meaning.) -
For many years GWR rolling stock used round-topped oil axleboxes described as 'OK' type ........ how did this differ from other 'split' oil boxes of the time and what is the significance of 'OK' ? : this was long before 'OK' came to mean 'alright' ( though, presumably, they were ! ) - was there an Orenstein & Koppel connection p'raps ?
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'My' fireman had to do that when I was driving from Poznan to Wolsztyn not very many years ago. Standard practice on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - even today.