Wickham Green too

9 hours ago, Titan said:

Makes the thumpers/Hastings units look a step backwards if we could have had something like that - they even used the same engines!

At least the Hastings / Thumper family had windows you could see out of ................. passengers as well as the driver, that is !

I'm still intrigued by that reference to silver-painted roofs ........ would that be better for deflecting Dawlish seawater p'raps ??!?

Whoever built that semi-roundhouse a) didn't get it anywhere near concentric with the 'table and b) seriously over-did the false perspective !

34 minutes ago, EddieK said:

Was a GLV a Driving Trailer? I thought that they retained the motor bogie of the donor EMU vehicle.

No ......... and yes !

indeed, Eden Park, on an embankment near me, was a 'typical' South Eastern building in timber - seriously damaged by fire at least once and rebuilt as per ............. most people wouldn't spot the difference but it's actually clad in UPVC now !

The late '67 Locoshed Book lists no steam at Barrow and the only diesels I've spotted are a few shunters - but I've not worked through every page with a fine-tooth comb ! ( The MetroVicks are listed at Upperby ). The most likely source of 'Fives' in the area would have been Carnforth which had a significant number of Standard 4s and a handful of 9Fs too. A very fluid situation at that date, of course ........

2 hours ago, Phil Bullock said:

 

Isnt that chromatic yellow? 

...... or Stroudley's 'Improved Engine Green' !!?!

Apologies - I'd forgotten that the junction still had its own 'box to the end : the Disused Stations website says "Selsdon Junction signal box was closed on 1st April 1984 and subsequently demolished and the oil siding finally closed in March 1993 and the junction with the Oxted line was severed but in 2008 most of the track to Croham Road is still in place." ............ what's more, my index says I took a photo showing it ! 

On 18/05/2020 at 14:07, cg501 said:

Is the Bay platform (5) at Basingstoke electrified, I used to remember that the DEMUs from Reading coming in to the bay and those lines which were not electrified. It used to be a straight though platform but was cut back so that the station had better access from the northside. 

 

Andrew

I think the obvious connection between the eastern and western bays at Reading, to give another electrified route to Blazingsmoke, was rather thwarted when some guy called Brunel plonked a Grade II listed station building in the vicinity.

9 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

I’d never thought of Sanderstead as an oasis, but it’s a good one for this, and it had rather nice signals. IIRC the up starter had a distant arm for the next box.

Now, before you get to the next ( South Croydon ) 'box you come to the delights of Selsdon ( Junction ) which might fit the OP's bill !  The electrified Woodside and South Croydon veers off to the right with a single platform for a peak-hours only service and a back-shunt into the old goods yard for oil traffic while the 'main' Oxted Line passes between the remnants of its long-disused platforms and drops down to the aforementioned 'box and back onto third rail territory. It's not all MUs, of course, as there were a handful of Crompton-hauled business trains between East Grinstead & London Bridge.

1 hour ago, john new said:

 

The GWR did commission a study into electrification in the West Country but it was not progressed. (Probably one by  Merz & McLellan). I know a write up has been published, I remember reading about it, but I can't remember where.

 

 

Indeed ...... now, putting Merz & McLellan into the search too, we find a page on good ol' rmweb ! : mweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/14790-imaginary-locomotives/page/23/

2 hours ago, montyburns56 said:

Hands up, who didn't know that the GWR also dabbled in 1500v DC electrification?

Well, nobody seems to admit to putting their mits in the air ....... I guess the GWR would have built locos similar to that but with railcar-style beaks on the end ( a bit like the class 89 all those years later ). Any search for 'GWR electrification', or the likes, only comes up with references to the current ongoing project, of course - or what it might have been if funded .......................

Not for long  -  that sign has disappeared since !

( I wonder if someone put it up for the duration of the model railway show - just in case some smart-arse spotted it ??!? )

...... it was a long time ago !

We know the Lady in question used to travel on the Midland line regularly - but that doesn't mean that she never popped up to Buxton .......... I don't think anyone else has offered another possibility in the right timeframe.

The Honourable ( WHAT ? ) Member for Wickham Green thanks you for your clarification ........ but still hopes that the two-year schedule can be made a little elastic ( whenever it does commence ) to squeeze in even more quality wagons, carriages and engines.

2 hours ago, jonny777 said:

 

 

I don't know, but there is one in Hemel Hempstead. It is called Plough Roundabout. 

Not Plough-Into Roundabout ?

Uckfield !

....... but further up towards the 'Smoke' I'd offer Sanderstead : a one time electrified oasis within the non-electric Oxted line - though within arcing distance of the Brighton Line.

23 hours ago, bigherb said:

Got a feeling the bay platform at Oxted for the Uckfield trains is not electrified.

The bay at Uckfield is not fully electrified as the deep layer of rust on the third rail would probably prevent any juice being picked up !

If you're into kits, ask Chris what he can still do - sales@srg.org.uk - some of the tools are worn out,, unfortunately.

May I offer the Chapel runaway as a possibility ? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Axon

On 15/05/2020 at 15:13, Watto1990 said:

Very interesting to see reference to a “two-year schedule” of “wagons, carriages and engines” there...

...... but a tad worrying that we're already thirteen months ( to the day, as it happens ) into those two-years and only one model's been announced / produced so far ; let's hope that time-frame's a little elastic.

2 hours ago, The Johnster said:

Boston Lodge?  Not standard gauge admittedly.

A good point - and there must be other narrow-gauge / miniature replicas / rebuilds ........ though off the top of my head, I can't think what on the Ffesty hasn't got outside cylinders ?

One minor irony about the four standard gauge loco mentioned ( to date ) is that the G5 is by far the simplest to build - EXCEPT that it's the only one with a two-throw crank !

5 hours ago, Bon Accord said:

Off the top of my head, new crank axles have been built for the A1, P2, Patriot and G5.

Yes, I'd forgotten 'Tornado' and didn't realise that the others had got that far ..... the G5 certainly hadn't when I saw her last year.