Wickham Green too

2 hours ago, Andy Vincent said:

... As you note, with separate catches each side, it would take two people to free the door (or one with some faith that the other catch was fully engaged ...

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.

1 hour ago, PhilJ W said:

... Most rail grinders are of the wheel type. ...

... and are set up to recreate the original rail profile ........... the reciprocating thing above would need its 'Peco Track Rubbers' made and maintained to the correct profile - and would need a lot of passes - to achieve the same result.

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.

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.

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

1 hour ago, Welchester said:

OK, meaning okay, dates from the 1830s according to Wikipedia (I know), so long before oil boxes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK

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 ?

12 hours ago, Colin_McLeod said:

Maybe not visually looking like a model, but here is a prototype track cleaning vehicle. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/zZ1PFXXcCTKKRf6T/

I love the 'steam age' technology of cranks and connecting rods !

8 hours ago, Wheatley said:

..., the fireman is out on the footplate braying the Westinghouse pump ...

'My' fireman had to do that when I was driving from Poznan to Wolsztyn not very many years ago.

57 minutes ago, Morello Cherry said:

...  someone hand sanding from the front on a welsh narrow gauge railway in the very early 1980s ...

Standard practice on the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway - even today. 

If Aunty Beeb wants to know what British track looks like - here's some I photographed last Tuesday : - 

Taken with permission.

4 minutes ago, Steamport Southport said:

War was over though I can't really see what use it would have been.  ...

Well, the Kings were named long after their namesakes had passed away .... the King Arthurs even longer after their namesakes were supposed to have been around* ........... and just after the war is exactly when the Battle of Britain class names appeared on Bulleid's Light Pacifics !

* no doubt other examples  .... racehorses p'raps

5 minutes ago, The Johnster said:

... especially Lightning, which appeared on a Brit eventually.

Now THAT would have confused lots of people as the English Electric Lightning post-dated the Brit ! 😊

2 hours ago, Oldddudders said:

... Walworth Road sidings, known for their coal-drops, in LCDR territory. ...

... though actually a Midland Railway site !

... though it doesn't look to be fenced from the road(s) alongside .......... tramway p'raps ?

1 hour ago, Morello Cherry said:

... The phone makes me wonder how they communicated with the other testers in earlier times ie the LBSCR image.

If there was a plan and everyone stuck to it, communication - other than STOP ! - might not have been necessary.

Has Blackburn featured in these pages before ? ..... if not it should have : - 

from Cumbrian Mountain Express : 24/4/99

16 hours ago, Michael Hodgson said:

... The other loco is definitely moving, ... the blurring of the rail chairs may be because the loco under test is moving, or it might just be slightly out of focus. ...

... and/or simple over exposure as the main subject of the photo is in shadow.

1 hour ago, Tony Cane said:

... I will fabricate a pair of sand boxes ...

Might class 08 sandboxes be available elsewhere ?

One thing to note about No.66 is that it only has one set of brakes ............ if it survived much later it would have needed a second set fitting. From reading Keith Turton's notes, Wadsworths cared for their wagons and this would probably have happened to prolong the wagon's life .......... certainly the example that should land on my doormat Monday will receive a second set and will still be in traffic - just - into 1948.

You are, of course, assuming that Rapido aren't already aiming to improve their "early Engineering Prototype" illustrated on the last page .......... the words "early" and "Prototype" suggest to me that they have adequate time to sort out what they may already recognise as a glaring problem.

Unfortunately the title that's obvious to YOU might not contain the key words someone ELSE thinks obvious ...... truck / wagon, carriage / coach  or locomotive / engine frinstance !

On 15/04/2024 at 16:04, TravisM said:

I think your just nit picking as the Class 56, 58 & 60's were built AFTER the Class 13's were converted. ...

Half of them were built after the 13s were SCRAPPED !

On 16/04/2024 at 17:16, CUCKOO LINE said:

We're there not some LBSCR push pull sets that survived well into BR days ? ..

Just about the only Brighton coaches to last into BR days, unfortunately .......... except on the Isle of Widget, of course.

23 hours ago, greatcoleswoodhalt said:

... No 31806 will be visiting from the Swanage Railway and "is sponsored by Rapido Trains" - surely, this can mean only one thing? ..

If it does - Please, PLEASE, Rapido don't model its tender in current state : they seem to have mounted a 3500 gallon body on the chassis from a 4000 gallon tender ..................... yes  I know some people like models of locos AS CURRENTLY PRESERVED - but I don't, I'm afraid. 

Not disagreeing with you .... that was a response to 34theletterbetweenB&D - though jumping over the page removed context.