Wickham Green too

Careful when you order the shed - that 3.2's a bit on the tight side : it's closer to 3.3 ! ( 3.28 ish )

I seem to recall the whole covid thing in Europe kicked off from a single ski party ..............

The Mk1 was an amalgamation of influences from several earlier designs though - to be honest - I've not identified anything definitely LNER ! ..... the length and continuously-curved bodyside were Bulleid's, the centre-trussed underframe and all steel construction stemmed from Stanier prototypes and the bogies were a variant on Swindon practice : interior layout ? - how many ways can you fit the required items into a 63' bodyshell ? - the available space determines the layout for most carriages though, of course, you may be able to size your brake compartment to suit a preferred layout.

I trust they're only mothballing the Eurostar platforms at Ashford, not the whole thing ............... shouldn't inconvenience too many people as b****r all stopped there anyway.

There's a certain logic to that : as the physical 'platform' is a single structure ........ what are normally numbered are strictly the edges of the platform. ( But don't get me going about being told not to fall between the 'train and the platform edge' - I can't see how anyone could fall between the train and any other part of it ! )

Not sure whether the Welsh roos have to stop(iwch) for trains or everyone else for the roos ??!?

Comparison with Paul Bartlett's photos suggests this is probably B901801 rather than the LMS original - but it might be of interest : - .......... unfortunately nothing else can be positively identified : Strathdearn 24/8/74.

All the info you need is in https://www.mdsbooks.co.uk/bogies-carriages-of-secr.html

And yet another bridge to tunnel cliche ....

.... from the local banana growers ??!?

Certainly messy round here .......... multiples of 2 & 4 from the Ten-Car Scheme ( whether EPBs or Networkers ) then they went an' ordered FIVE car 367s which didn't fit the pattern ( at the same time lengthening all the platforms for twelve cars ).

By this date there were quite a few mixed sets and the details will be found in the appropriate books from Gould & Mike King - many were in transition from Maunsell to Bulleid to Mk1 stock and were short lived in mixed formation but others survived for a while thus formed. Don't forget a) many sets were augmented for the summer season and the additions might not match the originals b) you can never have too many Corridor - or even Open - Thirds to stick on the end of your sets.

Probably wouldn't ........ but if someone thinks they can promise that journey in an hour it sounds better than 65min into St.Pancreas would !

S3500-14 WERE built as Second Class and differ from the standard Open Thirds - as they would have been at the time - by having a door in one of the centre seating bays rather than a cross passage ( hence more legroom ) and three a-side seating ....... apart from the centre doors, the same bodyshell as RSOs 1000-13..

That sort of follows the low numbers for 'up' pattern ( for London at least ) though I don't know, off hand, what is 'up' and what is 'down' between Brighton and Hove or Lewes. London & Glasgow terminal stations are oddballs, of course, as few passengers / customers need to know what platform a train's arriving at so - effectively - all platforms are 'down' ................ the Southern's termini, though, are numbered east to west : maybe that's 'up' from, say Victoria to London Bridge or Charing Cross to Cannon Street ( or vice-versa ) or Waterloo to Waterloo !!?!

.... and/or the aftermarket suppliers.

Anything other than a straight through pipe would involve a joint which might leak and asphyxiate the guard ........... not good if you're hoping he'll control the train as required.

At least most UK stations have all platforms in either ascending or descending order from one side or t'other ............. platforms on the new stations where the Cork Line out of Dublin has been quadrupled seem to have been numbered completely at random.

Ah - but quite a few of the narrow gauge heritage railways THAT side of the border are within an hour or so of major tourist hot-spots ...... in fact some ARE major tourist hot-spots.

On the Southern, at least, No.1 is normally on the 'UP' side.

Not necessarily ............ I still have a - diminishing - supply of thin-walled plastic tube I picked up from an aero-modelling stand at the Model Engineer Exhibition at Olympia many, many yonks ago ( Sutcliffe Productions seem to have ceased productioning in the early '90s.).

C'mon, a stovepipe looks like a pipe ! .......... yes, if it needs to be moulded as part of the roof it needs to be tapered to allow release from the mould - but the taper looks to me ( as an amateur ) to be excessive. ( If I have to replace yet another brake van chimney with a piece of plastic tubing, I will do so.) Kernow ARE already discussing a very small number of slight modifications with the factory ......... time will tell whether this is one of them.

Great to see these - almost - in the flesh at last ...... I wonder if the 'very small number of slight modifications' might include a slightly less obviously tapered chimney ?

Talk of Tavistock's been rumbling on for years too ............

K's used to do a Cordon which you might find on the interweb .......... not sure whether it was one of their better less awful wagon kits tho.