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  1. Wickham Green too
    ... thought they added a few spurious buildings and it's rather short of people ! 🙃
  2. Wickham Green too
    But how many armour-plated limousines does it take to carry a single ex president ??!?
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    There would have been examples of both scenarios ........ if the branch loco(s) had somewhere to bed down for the night then the coaches probably slept nearby but if the loco(s) came from a nearby big town they probably brought a train with them.
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    May have been a legacy of the Pullman Car Company's works being at Preston Park ..... though that had closed in 1963 ( demolished 2008/9 ).
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    ... and you'd expect any specials that were to receive coach-built bodies would be supplied as a complete chassis with wheels, engine etc. !
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    Shhhhh - wasn't it the 'Hush Hush' that was grey ??!? ............... shhhhhhhhhhh
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    Nothing in the British Locomotive Catalogue either.
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    Hmmm ........ theoretically, you could get twelve tons of shoe boxes ( presumably flatpack ) into a van and they might stack high enough to provide quite significant leverage on the body end during a rough shunt ! ........ hmmmm
  9. Wickham Green too
    Could be - but contemporary steel-ended open wagons also had that taper AND diagonal strapping !
  10. Wickham Green too
    They'd be HO gauge ones, wouldn't they ??!? 🙄
  11. Wickham Green too
    Relatively few 9' wheelbase open wagon types had ( or received ) vacuum brakes ...... and very, very few of those had timber underframes - none of which were LMS types. ☹️
  12. Wickham Green too
    Six locos bought by M.S.&.L from contractors Logan & Hemingway 1876-84 - variable wheel sizes 3'0'' to 3'9'' .......... some ( probably the same ) details in British Locomotive Catalogue.
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    ... by way of Timbuktu ? ......................... yeah, I've met Journey Planners that do that sort of thing ! 😁
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    Not sure how they manage in N gauge - but the do seem to !
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    Well, it IS optional !
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    ... and the market for a 4EPB - which can run with / alongside existing models - is probably greater than any of those 'elsewhere' cousins which often ran only with their classmates ☹️ Of course a 4EPB is little different to two 2EPBs coupled trailer to trailer so Accurascale are not the obvious manufacturer ..... get yer finger out B !
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    So any train stopped at it would be fouling umpteen turnouts ! - was there an indication of selected route at the other end of the tunnel p'raps ?
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    Everywhere they were used ( and not so often in the 'suburbs' )........... until the earlier vehicles were withdrawn.
  19. Wickham Green too
    If they were, indeed, intended for the Highland lines, someone should have had the foresight to build them with token exchange equipment.
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    Needless to say, the BBC News reporter trotted out with the usual "Why didn't they stop the trains?" - though, clearly, there WAS sufficient time for the police to attend ( where from ? ).
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    Isn't RMweb wonderful ! 😁
  22. Wickham Green too
    Well, the Southern and Western vans had conspicuous diagonals from new ............ the LNER kept theirs hidden but you can often see an 'X' of bolts !
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    It's probably a case of the bodies of some examples of all the fitted diagrams randomly racking under braking forces and some not.
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    Looks as described ( arched body on straight solebar ) in my copy of the book ..... though relying on nothing more sophisticated than Mk1 eyeball ............................... admittedly, there is a little distortion in the track below - but I think that's only a dipped joint.
  25. Wickham Green too
    Don't forget that most electric trains of that time were powered by smoky, coal-burning power stations - many of which were located in urban areas ☹️
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